There’s much to be said about effortful endeavors in the age of AI and easy outcomes. Gone are the days when the actual thing you created had a direct tie…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
If the 2010s gaming scene was shaped by the challenging, git gud scrub titles of FromSoftware and their ilk then the rise of the cozy genre in the 2020s feels…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
In the before time, in the long long ago, when I was more itinerant than I am today there was a ritual I’d go through every time we moved. Given…
David Klemke
7 Min Read
Man, never thought I’d see the day. For those unaware Spiders and it’s publisher Nacon are unfortunately no more. Long time readers might be wondering why I’d be shedding a…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
Factory building games all have a pretty standard template. There a resource to extract, processes to put it through until finally you offload it somehow until you do that enough…
David Klemke
3 Min Read
Pixel art graphics have been a mainstay of the indie gaming scene for decades now but the aesthetics of other eras, where that was still the prominent art style, are…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
The realizations I’ve come to over the years about what reviewing a game really means has been illuminating and humbling. There was me, some 16 years ago thinking that reviewing…
David Klemke
2 Min Read
Maybe I was hungry when I stumbled across I Can Only Speak Doner as it’s not the kind of game you’d usually see me gravitating to. It’s also possible that…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
The title of this review requires some explaining. Not just to give you the definition of the word I’ve used (you could Google that in a heartbeat) but why it…
David Klemke
6 Min Read
Housemarque really tapped into something with Returnal. On paper it really shouldn’t work: a bullet hell third person shooter roguelike? I mean with that many genre descriptors it should be…
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