Author: Flare

Visiting your grandmother is usually a wholesome experience: free food, unconditional love, maybe a $20 bill slipped into your pocket. But in Grandma, Is That You?, the latest psychological horror from Montee Games, that visit turns into a nightmare of human stew, haunted wind chimes, and a dog named Bobo who loves chewing on “suspiciously long” bones. Released earlier this month, this indie title asks a simple question: What happens when the person you trust most starts serving you “meat sandwiches” that taste a little too homemade? Welcome to the Family The premise is classic horror fodder. Your mother calls…

There are co-op games that bring you closer, and then there are co-op games that force you to reconsider every life choice that led you to be tethered to your friend by a virtual rope. Stuck Together, the latest release from Hugecalf Studios, falls squarely into the latter category—and it’s absolutely brilliant for it. Released on November 17, 2025, this physics-based climbing adventure tasks two players (or one audacious soul in the newly added single-player mode) with escaping the home of a sadistic, toy-mutilating teenager. The catch? You are quite literally stuck together, forcing a level of coordination that will…

There is a unique beauty in silence, and Ayasa: Shadows of Silence understands this perfectly. Developed by Aya Games, this atmospheric puzzle-platformer takes players on a surreal journey through a world teetering on the edge of ruin. Drawing clear inspiration from heavyweights like Little Nightmares and INSIDE, it manages to carve out its own eerie identity, even if it occasionally stumbles under the weight of its own ambition. You play as Ayasa, a silent protagonist navigating symbolic lands corrupted by concepts like Greed, Betrayal, and Indifference. There is no dialogue, no text to read—just pure, visual storytelling delivered through pantomime…

From the creative minds of Cory Davis (Spec Ops: The Line) and Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails) comes SLEEP AWAKE, a first-person psychedelic horror game that blurs the boundaries between reality and nightmare. Set in a sleepless dystopia where falling asleep means disappearing into “The HUSH,” players are thrust into a world of depraved death cults, reckless experiments, and warping realities. Visually and aurally, the game is a triumph. It’s a mind-bending trip filled with vibrant colors, FMV sequences, and an “arresting” industrial score by Finck that perfectly captures the feeling of a waking fever dream. But underneath the hallucinogenic…

For over a decade, the classic RTS genre has felt like a ghost town, abandoned by the big developers after the disaster of Command & Conquer 4. But Slipgate Ironworks™ has decided to fill that void, not by reinventing the wheel, but by polishing the old one until it gleams. Tempest Rising is a shameless, loving, and incredibly well-executed homage to the golden age of RTS gaming, specifically Command & Conquer and Red Alert. Set in a post-nuclear alternate history where a mysterious new resource called “Tempest” (read: Tiberium) grows across the planet, three factions vie for control. It’s classic,…

If you thought the first game was excessive, KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2 is here to redefine the word “overkill.” Developer Casey Donnellan Games has taken the simple, primal joy of hunting spiders with household objects and expanded it into a multiverse-spanning, co-op chaos engine. Now out of Early Access, the 1.0 release proves that the only thing better than setting a spider on fire is doing it with three friends and a laser sword in zero gravity. The premise remains gloriously simple: there are spiders, and they must die. But the scope has exploded. You are no longer just…