Nature is an endless circle. Four seasons, life, death, high and low tide, you know: that sort of analogy. Enviro-Bear 2010 might be the first game to add the roundabout to those well known symbols. It is, in its own ...Read More
Intriguing title, although the game is exactly what the title promises. This is an introspective 2D platformer, with a main character who is alone. He is pondering switches, flowers, walls and forcefields. The levels are built like diaries, the somewhat ...Read More
You will have to figure it out for yourself. The metaphors repeat to soon, and it all goes by so quickly. Dot2Hato. A million little pixels, schematic figures and triangles that bring you a little closer to understanding what interactive ...Read More
A game about the daily choice of waking up or dying. Daniel Benmergui leaves it up to you which part of your possible day you want to explore. The dead part, the painful part, the dark part? After all, life ...Read More
Oh, how all the beautiful things in life fade away eventually! How all the struggle is in vain! Things I Never Did is Scott Warren's take on the baroque subject of vanitas, compiled in a short platform game. You start ...Read More
Navigating a maze in search of shiny treasures is one of the archetypical joys of computer gaming. You avoid monstrous enemies, bag the gold and run. But little did you know how much such an operation can cost - when ...Read More
I am a big fan of simple games that are bloated with overly complex theoretical constructs to make them special in a certain way. I like to see video games as a means of transporting intricate social or cultural issues. ...Read More
Your first decision: jump or run. You can't do both. You can not Jump&Run. Genre convention #1 deconstructed along the way, 30 years of continuous jumping and running, gone at a single blow. Molleindustria's Paolo Pedercini manages to break the ...Read More
Some years ago, the New York Stock Exchange finally installed a defibrillator. The heart attack rate had become 60 percent higher than the national American average. Good for those dealing in Hewlett-Packard stock: They had recently bought Heartstream Inc., a ...Read More
Old men love to tell stories. About how they got that girl that is now your grandma, how they caught the biggest fish and, of course, how they won the war. Those memories rarely reflect the actual truth, but how ...Read More