Passing By Event Horizon
Billy is finally moving away from smartphone games this week and returning to console games with the space shooter Event Horizon.
Love at The Arcade with Arcade Spirits
Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel set it a wonderful alternative history where the videogame crash of 1983 never happened, and the arcades of yesteryear never went out of style. You get to run your own arcade while trying to find true love.
From the Black Goes into Dark Territory
There seems to be a trend in our review of The Free Fleet series in that each book gets a little bit darker. While a good read, From the Black may be your last chance to depart the fleet if you don’t like the way things are headed.
RBI Baseball 19 is no Crackerjack
Take us out to the ballgame, just not the one from RBI Baseball 19. This messy attempt at major league baseball gets everything wrong, from basic fundamentals to slowdowns and crashes, to a weird, unavoidable mercy rule where professional baseball teams simply give up if they fall behind.
Revisiting Stardew Valley on Mobile
Billy is heading back to Stardew Valley for a second stay on the farm, but this time he is checking out the mobile version of the game.
XCom Adjacent with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
While not quite the epic turn-based strategy game we hoped it would be, Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics has some interesting points, like mixing XCom tactical gameplay with Lovecraftian Mythos. Set during World War II in the Ardennes Forest, you will be fighting Nazis and other monsters.
Serious Sci-fi With No Rest for the Wicked
We continue to review The Free Fleet Series this week with book number three, No Rest for the Wicked. This time there is some good character growth and a much more serious plot. It’s clear that the author still had growing pains, but is finding his way.
Legendary Eleven Brings Arcade Soccer Back
If you love soccer but don’t like the complexity of most sports games, you might enjoy Legendary Eleven and it’s more arcade-like interface. You don’t need fancy controller skills to pull off some legendary maneuvers on this field, which makes Legendary Eleven worth kicking around.
Popping Back into Puzzles with Chuzzle 2
This week Billy feels like he’s back in high school as he checks out Chuzzle 2, a sequel to a game that came out back in 2005. Is Chuzzle 2 as good as the origional, or perhaps even better? Only one way to find out!
Advance into the Groove with Wargroove
Heavily inspired by the classic Advance Wars game, Wargroove is a competent and exciting wargame with a brilliant single player mode and plenty of multiplayer action too. In fact, Wargroove is a lesson in how to create a game with both sound strategy and tactics.