by Richard Hoover | Mar 20, 2023 | Review
When contemplating the great adventurers throughout history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart likely isn’t the first to spring to mind. However, the famed composer stars in Hoplite Research’s 2.5D point-and-click Mozart Requiem and makes a surprisingly capable protagonist,...
by Richard Hoover | Feb 22, 2023 | Review
When scientist Albert Vanderboom passes away, it’s up to his daughter Rose to resurrect him. Or rather, two versions of Rose almost sixty years apart. In Rusty Lake’s 2D/3D point-and-click co-op adventure The Past Within, two players take on the role of the bereaved...
by Richard Hoover | Dec 21, 2022 | Review
’Twas the night before Christmas and curly orange-haired twelve-year-old Cisco is stirring. Santa has been kidnapped and it falls on the young boy, with help from his Christmas-spirit-imbued teddy bear Kosmos, to save the (holi)day. Watch Over Christmas, by Dionous...
by Richard Hoover | Nov 23, 2022 | Review
In London, in either 1981 or 2021, stands the gallery, an art house with the exterior of a castle, devoted to portraiture. Young Morgan oversees it but is struggling to make ends meet. A new portrait of a high-profile subject by an equally high-profile artist may be...
by Richard Hoover | Nov 17, 2022 | Review
A combat hacker with a mechanical hand; a snooty, critical megacorporation CEO; and a hustler android who wants nothing more than to lay down some mad beats with his homies. These are the protagonists of Insert Disk 22’s traditional point-and-click Born Punk, set in...