Set Phasers to “Dumb” “Do you just want to hate Star Trek?” That is the question fans of the Gene Roddenberry universe have been asking themselves for nearly a decade. Under the stewardship of Alex Kurtzman, the franchise has seen highs (Picard Season 3) and…

The “Quota Horror” genre, popularized by the meteoric rise of Lethal Company, has spawned a fascinating sub-genre of co-op survival games. The formula is simple but effective: you are an expendable employee, the environment wants you dead, and the Corporation demands profit. Planet Hoarders, the…

Every now and then, a game comes along that feels less like a product and more like a proof of concept—a concentrated shot of creativity that leaves you desperate for more. Hank: Drowning On Dry Land is precisely that. Developed by My Next Games and…

There is a specific, primal joy in gathering three of your best friends, hopping onto a giant, mechanical arthropod, and firing a cannonball into a jar-headed enemy fortress while screaming about reload times. This is the niche that DuneCrawl, the latest release from indie developer…

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…