Top down shooters are all about dodging enemy projectiles and making sure the enemy doesn’t dodge yours. At the end of the day, those narratives about great wars and piloting giant Japanese robots are merely façades made to hide that similarity between all shooters that have ever existed. Once you rip that pretence away, what [...]

Tropix 2: Quest for the Golden Banana gets chops just for having “banana” in its title. Everything about the game is pretty silly - you’re a monkey hopping from island to island in search of treasure, meeting penguins, crabs, and birds along the way. Instead of the traditional linear adventure, Tropix 2 is more like [...]

Enchanted Fairy Friends: Secret of the Fairy Queen, by Other Ocean Interactive, is a game in which you get to traverse lush, green landscapes, in search of hidden objects. It’s a brightly-lit lullaby, light-hearted in its atmosphere, minimal in narrative, and offers three levels of difficulty on which you engage in casual puzzle-solving and item-finding.As [...]

This game was scooting up our charts before we finally caught up. You’d think after all the hidden object games in the market, people would stop loving them. But Little Shop - Road Trip is a bit hard not to love. 

The last few months have seen some really good hidden object games appearing on the scene to really raise the bar on the genre. Mortimer Beckett and Women’s Murder Club managed to provide some really good-looking clue hunting adventures while also using all the objects found as part of their puzzles. Compared to that, The [...]

The world of the Blood Ties television series provides a great premise for detective-themed games. Take supernatural mysteries, throw in a heroic vampire, pepper with the occasional ghost or demon, and you’ve got the world of Vicki Nelson and her friends. But this game isn’t about them – it’s about you doing the real detective [...]

Since this came out so quickly on the heels of the great Grimms Hatchery from Aveyond, we tried for *minutes* to come up with a “which came first, the Hatchery or the Chicken Chase” joke, but decided to give it a rest. You can thank us for that later.

Do you long for the platformers of yesteryear? Do obese plumbers and golden rings bring a tear to your screen-strained eyes? Pizza Panic might be just the game to scratch that itch then, with enough old-school platformy goodness to brighten the day of even the most jaded gamer.

It’s all too rare that we see a really new gameplay dynamic that is both simple and fun. That’s why we were pleasantly surprised to open up Mirror Mix-up from Pi Eye Games and find something completely new. Of course, with some pretty original games like Sweetopia and Arklight under their belt, it should come [...]

It’s such a patently obvious theme: Aloha Tripeaks meets Lost meets Mystery Case Files. Yet, like all the best ideas, it’s only obvious when someone else does it. And despite the somewhat Chinese-food-menu approach to design it takes, the overall game takes the best elements of all of its inspiration sources and creates an original [...]