All posts tagged 'Game Reviews'

Parking Garage Rally Circuit (Switch, PC)

If you’ve ever wanted to race around parking garages all over the US (and Europe if you get the DLC), then Parking Garage Rally Circuit is for you.  Race around parking garages in all sorts of locations in this silly throwback racer that feels like a PSOne game!  It’s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.

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Rat Protocol (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)

A lab rat undergoes experimentations and becomes super smart.  Now you must help the rat navigate through maze puzzles in a science laboratory in Rat Protocol.  It’s a Sokoban style block pushing puzzle game, and it’s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.

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Grand Vegas Casino (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)

Enjoy a collection of casino classics with Grand Vegas Casino.  This lets you play Roulette, Blackjack, Poker, and three kinds of Slots.  It’s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.

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Love Chemistry – Sibella’s Formula (PS4, PS5, Switch)

Sibella is a mad scientist chemistry professor at a university.  She’s just created a love potion and wants to try it out on everyone she comes across.  Naturally the students, faculty, and even law enforcement will try to stop her.  Guide Sibella as she tosses syringes at people and robots in her crazy quest for love in this Mega Man inspired 2D platformer.  It’s available on PlayStation consoles and Switch, but reviewed on PS4 here.

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Springbot: The Last Spark (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)

Once there was a land filled with happy, peaceful robots.  But one day they started acting strangely, except for one springy legged robot.  Now it’s up to Springbot to save the day in this simple 2D platformer.  It’s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.

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Secret Paws: Cozy Apartments (Switch, PC)

Last year I reviewed a game called Secret Paws: Cozy Offices.  It was a hidden picture hide and seek Easter Egg hunt kind of game.  You looked for little squarish cats hidden in office settings like cubicles, desks, meeting rooms, and more!  And now you can look for those cats in residential settings like bedrooms, living rooms, and bathrooms with Secret Paws: Cozy Apartments.  It’s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.

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Pictonico (Mobile)

The weirdest thing about this game is not that it’s a WarioWare styled title where they take your photos and make mini-games out of them.  No the weird thing is that this is a new mobile game developed and published by Nintendo!  I thought they were done with mobile, but I guess not!  Anyway, Pictonico is available on mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here.

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Do U Even Forklift? (Switch, PS5, X/S, PC)

A few years ago I reviewed a realistic forklift simulation game and didn’t like it.  But what if you took that concept and simplified the controls and made the objectives less realistic?  Would it be better?  Well that’s what we are here to find out with Do U Even Forklift?, a top down viewed game where you control a forklift lifting stuff and moving it around.  It’s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.

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Nitro City Racing (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)

You know those old arcade games and handhelds where you steer a car on a straight road in top down 2D fashion, switching lanes in order to avoid cars?  Well, Nitro City Racing is just that in 3D.  It’s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.

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Cozy Stickerville, the most chillax of boardgames?

Some boardgames are tense affairs where victory or defeat rests on the knife edge of a card draw or roll of the dice. Cozy Stickerville is not that game. As the name implies, Cozy Stickerville has players cooperating to create a story about starting up a little town. Cards are flipped up and players make choices on how to respond or what to do, and then look up the results in a book of stories. The most common result has the player(s) take a sticker from the sticker book (with over 800 stickers in it) and add it to the main game board, representing something new added to their town. It could be as simple as a bird nest or tree, or perhaps its a new building like a barn or house. There are no truly epic decisions to be had. Do you go fishing today? Perhaps read up more about the mysterious town founder? Or maybe you’ll build a house for that new couple who came to the country to get out of the city. You can’t really win or lose, but there are choices to be made and stickers put on the town will eventually reflect those choices. There’s just something visceral about peeling a sticker out of a book and then slapping it down on your own little town – I just made this! After ten 30-minute or so sessions, each representing a year of game time, the game is complete and players will be able read up on one of five final endings based on their choices within the game. Cozy Stickerville is like going through a choose-your-own adventure game with friends but when you’re done, you’ve stickered yourself a cute little town to show for it.

Cozy Stickerville
Designer: Corey Konieczka
Publisher: Unexpected Games
Players: 1-6 (best with just a few)
Ages: 8+
Time: 30 min (at a time)
(review copy furnished by publisher)

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