We are closing out on the second of three Steam Next Fests of the year.  This is the magical time when we are blessed with a festival of...

Mario Kart 8 originally released for the Wii U back in 2014 but has seen new life being ported and expanded on the Switch. It’s been a powerhouse staple of most households for ten years now, but can anything steal the limelight away from such a dominant family party game? The answer is a resounding yes! Mario Kart World is a worthy successor, but stumbles in a few key areas. Still, let’s dig into what makes this new entry into the Mario Kart series so great. 

Hard sci-fi is something that video games tend to fumble in a lot of ways. Even games like Elite Dangerous with its 1:1 scale universe have you interact with most of its world by shooting at it. The Alters, however, manages to use its hard sci-fi premise well, as an exploration on what makes a person who they are.

To a T is a game that's about being stuck just the way you are, perfection as an imperfect goal, and...well, you'll have to play it to find out the rest.

The premise behind Roadcraft is simple: some sort of natural disaster has ravaged an area, and your job is to go in and get it running again. That includes tasks like clearing debris, cutting down trees, building roads, reconnecting electricity, delivering equipment and more.

It's that time again. Our thoughts turn to Spring, and thus begins the search for low price video games.

Game releases come at us fast and furious as the new year begins, culminating in a slew of high profile games around the holiday season....

I’m a bit wary of tactics games, especially when they represent a franchise that decidedly does not have such mechanics.

Clock Tower is a visually stunning game. It relied on extremely detailed 2D Graphics. The results are still impressive to this day

At the time of Friday the 13th’s release, I can’t think of another game I played that had you fighting the end boss from the very beginning.

The biggest shame of Koudelka is that its relatively rare. If you want to play it you have to find an original copy, and they are expensive

Playing Phasmophobia can be legitimately intense, and that’s probably why so many players are drawn to it. It’s also wildly unpredictable.

While The Thing is hard to play these days, there will be a remake coming out in the next few weeks.

Uninvited is a game unlike a lot of the others I covered in this series recently: it can be genuinely scary.

I’ve been covering some pretty well known games, so I wanted to change it up a bit with Nocturne. This game is a deep cut for many.

The 7th Guest was one of the first games to utilize CD-ROM technology to the max. Its popularity helped cement CD-ROM as the future of games

Released during the era of Sewer Shark and Night Trap, Dracula Unleashed can be considered those games’ forgotten cousin.

This isn’t really a “horror” game so much as it’s a horror themed fighting game. It’s not meant to scare you. But come on! It’s

Maniac Mansion plays on horror tropes from silver screen monster movie clichés. It’s more of a comedy than a horror game...