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Beyond The Edge of Owlsgard review
Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard might be the best point-and-click adventure game about animals ever made. And with a little more playtesting, the ‘about animals’ qualifier might not even have been necessary... Read more
Blood Nova review
Blood Nova asks us to assume the role of an unlovable protagonist who spends a good deal of the befuddling lore-bloated adventure acting like she doesn’t care. Which, for the most part, is how many a-player might feel too... Read more
The Rewinder review
Authentic, different, imperfect, but very good. If you’d like a break from questing in the usual sort of places with the usual sort of suspects, give The Rewinder a try. Sometimes it will frustrate you; more often it will wow you, in ways that few others ever do... Read more
Return to Monkey Island review
Questions of where it ranks in the series pantheon ought to be irrelevant: Return to Monkey Island is both an excellent adventure game and an excellent Monkey Island game – and that means it’s a treasure... Read more
Lucy Dreaming review
Lucy Dreaming is so good that if it had been presented as a lost Schafer/Gilbert/Grossman collaboration from ’95 that was excavated and polished off for a quarter-century-late release, I’d half-believe it... Read more