Divinity: Original Sin 2 is one of the best modern RPGs, and it is made by the same team that gave us Baldur’s Gate 3. To me, the best thing about Divinity: Original Sin 2 is how close it feels to a tabletop RPG. You can try out all sorts of wacky ideas, and the … Read more

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, in my personal opinion, is the last innovative idea Bethesda had. Gamers could make an argument that subsequent titles were down-grades in every aspect except graphics. The first-ever Elder Scrolls I played was Skyrim, and I was blown away by it. It seemed ahead of any RPG at the time; … Read more

Horror, like comedy, is subjective. What scares one person will not necessarily be scary for the next. Oxenfree is a horror game that I did not find scary. Do not be alarmed the title is not a typo, Oxenfree sets out to be a horror game, and while personally, I was unphased it doesn’t speak … Read more

I’d like to think that there are some of you out there who vaguely remember the dawn of the flash games – games like N, Bloons TD and Canabalt. That was a different time for games, and as we kids went from computer to computer in our school to install these flash games on all … Read more

After the success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, many developers shifted their focus from the World War setting to a more realistic and contemporary one. Squad is one such game; it pits two teams against each other on huge maps (up to 16 X 16 km) to achieve various objectives (King of the hill, … Read more

The roots of the RTS genre can be traced back to 1981, and with refinements and evolution of technology, we now have Northgard. Northgard is rooted in the Norse Viking mythology, where you command one of the three clans and its people to a new unexplored and harsh world. The player must start with building … Read more

Elsword is a unique take on the MMORPG genre, considering that it’s 2-D. This free to play title was released in 2007 by KOG; however, there’s no meteoric rise to talk about; the player base is small but loyal.  There are plenty of games like Elsword. However, none have made decisions so detrimental to their … Read more

Before Nintendo DS and PSP were a thing, players used to rely on the good old GBA for their portable entertainment, most will remember the GBA for the Pokemon or Final Fantasy titles as that was what the console did best (in my opinion). Golden Sun is a lesser-known title for the GBA, developed by … Read more

Hollow Knight is a game with jaw-dropping level design, quirky NPCs, amazing musical scores, and a combat system that is simple to learn but hard to master. Simply put, it is the best Metroidvania game of the last decade (or ever). There are tons of hidden secrets locked away inside rooms filled with monsters, bosses … Read more

My first ever Assassin’s Creed experience was in the form of a JAVA game on my old Nokia. It was a 2D platformer built by Gameloft around the limitations of mobile devices of the time. They indeed found success creating more and more ports for AAA games on mobile devices. As technology developed and mobile … Read more

7 days to die was released in 2013 on Steam. It is one of the very few titles that managed to retain a positive rating while being an early access title for nearly 8 years now. Developed by The Fun Pimps, a small-sized indie studio that found success in catering to a niche audience that … Read more

Nier: Automata is an Action RPG, Hack and slash game with an anime art style with an excellent soundtrack and atmosphere. Set in a dystopian world, you play as an android battling it out with other machines, but the story is much deeper than that.  While Nier can get repetitive in terms of its gameplay … Read more

Detroit: Become Human is one of the most underrated successes in modern gaming, it offers a multi-choice narrative that asks tough questions based on morality. Exploring the themes of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, slavery, and what it really means to be human- this game is a narrative masterpiece unlike anything else. It’s more of an interactive … Read more

Studio MDHR’s September 2017 title, Cuphead, was an instant classic. The gameplay is centered around continual boss fights with intermittent levels. All the worlds featured in this game include a mausoleum in which the player must counter ghosts. Victory in this challenge awards the player with a “Super” move. This is all occurring because Cuphead … Read more

Gloomhaven was originally a board game before it was developed into its highly-popular digital version by developer Flaming Fowl Studios and publisher Asmodee Digital in July 2019. In this card-based game, tactical role-playing and dungeon-crawling meet up and have a wonderful, challenging time. Its structure as a video game was heavily inspired by other older … Read more