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'Go Round' Review - Curious Concentric Puzzles From Little White Bear Studios
Dig down deep enough and you'll notice that most matching games target the parts of us that want things tidy, want to clear a whole color right off the board or line up all the gems into nice little...
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'Merchant to the Stars' Review - An Item Shop Sim Trampled by Timers
Role-playing games are almost universally about becoming the big damn hero, playing the one central character or party that changes the whole world. No one wants to play the innkeeper, shopkeeper, or...
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'Sword & Glory' Review - To Die For Family, Clan or Pieces of Silver
Living for glory kinda went out with dying by the sword: there just isn't much of it in the daily struggle to work a desk job, handle your homework or get your kids in bed on time. Sword & Glory is...
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'Blip Blup' Review - The Puzzling Travels of Color
If you've heard of ustwo as a gamer it's probably thanks to Whale Trail , a psychedelic flier starring the darling Willow the whale. Since that hit in 2011 the studio's been fairly quiet on the game...
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'Sigma12' Review - Numbers, Rhythm and Score (Oh My)
By all rights a game that's billed as an arcade game, a mathematical puzzle game and a rhythm game all in one probably ought to be a mess. Those don't seem like things that should jive. That's the cool...
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'Ending' Review - A Rational Roguelike
Ending hits all the right notes. Half of it's a puzzle game, half of it's a roguelike, and either would be fantastic alone. Or, at least, that's mostly true: without the puzzle levels the roguelike may...
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'Home' Review - Exploring the Horror of Perception
I can't tell you what your experience of Benjamin Rivers' Home will be like. Not really. It's not exactly a matter of player choice, either. We might both pick up the same gun, visit the same rooms,...
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'Block Block Block' Review - Simple Puzzles, Simple Package
Tiny little puzzles make up Block Block Block , a couple hundred of them. None of them take much longer than it takes to describe the game—you just slide blocks into lines of three or more and clear...
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'Treasure Tower Sprint' Review - Going for Gold
We've been collecting coins for a long time—well before the days when they did much of anything, we've been running and jumping and stuffing those shiny gold things in our pockets, rewarding ourselves...
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'Gentlemen!' iPad Review - Lucky Frame's Field of Honor for Modern Duellists
If there's one thing that proves that society has gone all to pieces in recent centuries, it's how uncivilized we've become with regards to matters of honor. It's almost as though two wealthy...
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'Smooth Operators!' Review - An Anxiety Dream of Labor
Running a call center can be hell. If your employees aren't complaining that the toilets are too far away, they're calling in sick. If their computers aren't exploding, the building is decaying around...
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'Sky Tourist' Review - The Unusual Travels of Petey Pendant
Travel can be a hassle. A few tacky trinkets and impersonal photos don't always seem worth dealing with airport security, lost baggage and language barriers. But that's nothing compared to what Petey...
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'Solar Flux HD' iPad Review - Setting Suns on Fire
Solar Flux HD sends you off into space, alone on a mission to refuel the many stars of the galaxy. Over the course of 80 levels you go out, leaving the safety of your space station with a gentle...
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'Incredipede' Review - This Physics Puzzler Has Legs. So Many Legs.
Quozzle lacks most of what we might call heroic virtues. She hasn't got a body, or even much of a face. She's an eyeball, a few exposed bones and some scraps of flesh and muscle. A monster. But as the...
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'Duet' Review - Meditating on Deaths
As much as it might punish me for it, I have difficulty putting Duet down. As it did with both Bean's Quest and Time Surfer , Kumobius has tapped into a potent combination in its new game, this time...
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'Doctor Who: Legacy' Review - Swapping Gems With The Doctor and Friends
Out of all the possibilities in time and space, Doctor Who: Legacy is a gem-matching game. It's the sort of gem-matching game where you don't simply swap gems, you drag them around for a good five...
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'Luxuria Superbia' Review - A Game of Give and Take
Sure, you love your iOS device. All that inviting metal and glass—who wouldn’t? But do you love your device? Do you want to make it happy? If you do, consider Luxuria Superbia , the first iOS release...
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'Monster Loves You!' Review - A Brief Dip in the Monster Pool
Monster Loves You! [$0.99] is the story of a monster, a story your choices help tell. The first collaboration between Radial Games and Dejobaan Games lets you decide how monsters live their lives:...
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'Out There' Review - The Lonely Joy of Being Lost in Space
Dying alone in space doesn’t seem so bad now that I’ve played Out There [$3.99] from Mi Clos Studio. I’ve exploded a few times, been stranded without fuel a few dozen and suffocated on at least one...
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'Rootwork' for iPad Review - Playing Cards Alone in the Deep Dark Woods
Rootwork [$1.99] bills itself as a Sophisticated Card Game, but what that means is left open to interpretation. It isn't a deck building game, a collectible card game or even a multiplayer experience....
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