Released quietly on Christmas Day 2025—an ironic date for a game about demonic possession — An Exorcism by developer Authogin is a tightly contained, atmospheric indie horror title that punches well above its $4.99 price tag. In a genre often saturated with walking simulators and…

Breaking the January Curse? It is a tale as old as time in the film industry: “F*** you, it’s January.” Traditionally, studios treat the first month of the year as a landfill for horror movies they have no faith in (see: Night Swim). So, when…

The survival and automation genres have long run in parallel. On one side, you have the grueling, stick-and-stone survival of games like Green Hell or The Forest. On the other hand, you have the industrial, conveyor-belt sprawl of Satisfactory and Factorio. Rarely do these tracks…

Bowling games have always occupied a strange niche in the sports gaming world. For years, we were stuck between the arcade silliness of Wii Sports and the dry, often janky simulations that littered the bargain bins. Serious bowlers—the kind who know what “oil pattern breakdown”…

The rhythm game genre has seen a massive resurgence lately, moving away from the plastic peripherals of the mid-2000s and into more experimental territory. We’ve had rhythm-violence in Thumper, rhythm-FPS in Metal: Hellsinger, and rhythm-dungeon crawling in Crypt of the NecroDancer. But what about rhythm……

Introduction: Floating High Expectations When HBO announced a prequel series to Andy Muschietti’s IT films, skepticism was high. IT: Chapter Two left a sour taste in the mouths of many horror fans—a 3-hour CGI fest where the ancient cosmic entity was defeated by being bullied…

After a mixed but promising start with Volume 1, we went into Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 2 (Episodes 5, 6, and 7) expecting the Duffer Brothers to hit the gas. We are, after all, hours away from the series finale of one of the…

The factory automation genre has firmly established its titans over the last decade. We have the grim, insect-infested complexity of Factorio, the vertical sprawl of Satisfactory, and the interstellar logistics of Dyson Sphere Program. For fans of the genre, the loop is familiar: mine ore,…

The “Survivor-like” or “Bullet Heaven” genre has become one of the most crowded spaces in PC gaming over the last few years. Ever since Vampire Survivors opened the floodgates, we have seen every variation imaginable: sci-fi survivors, fantasy survivors, anime survivors, and even deep-sea survivors.…

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,…