Member since Dec 6, 2025
Retro-styled modern games are a genre spanning clique I feel I play or write/talk/think about a great amount. This is in part I’m sure to growing up in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras and the memories attached to that period. I’m drawn to them like a moth to a night light. There’s something about playing games that ten-year-old me would have loved but don’t suffer from the power of the machines I was playing on at that…
Having been drawn in by the art style which has that low poly/tilt shift thing that lends itself so well to strategy/resource management game a while ago, I finally got to spend a good chunk of time with The Colonists, going through the various missions and modes. While it wasn't completely what I thought it was going to be, it was an engaging experience that did what most strategy games hope to do; it was a…
May 11, 2021
And so it begins again Sometimes a game can just sneak up on me, without my knowing it becomes a large part of my playing time – even if it is always a little too far from the front of my brain when talking about favourite things to play, or games that I come back to. For the last few years, No Man’s Sky has been that sort of a game for me. I picked it up when it first came out on PC and have p...
Mar 23, 2021
I get very influenced by the video output of the GB Team. I will completely forget how I might love to watch fighting games but rarely like playing them; only to see a clip of Jeff playing a Street Fighter game and I am re-installing every version I have, playing them for 10 minutes before promptly uninstalling them again. I love games, all sorts of games, but I am often made very aware there a...
Dec 16, 2020
Getting away from it all was probably the biggest goal of the year for some of us. Although, unlike these poor stranded guys, the option to return was something I had. Coming up with top ten lists, especially only looking over games of the last twelve months, has been tough for me the last few years as my time and budget to keep up with all the things I’d like to becomes less available to do so...
May 19, 2020
Ah, exactly how I remember my journey to school. The 80s were a strange time. As a person who grew up in that decade, I have a somewhat difficult relationship with the nostalgia and reverence for certain aspects of that period of time that creeps into modern media, particularly music and games. I got very into synthwave music a few years back, partly down to the rabbit hole that the Drive (film...
May 4, 2020
A truly gorgeous looking game that I couldn't quite see to the end. So, a while back now I thought I’d start a series of blogs on here about trying out various faming games, with a leaning towards the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games. After having a good go at Littlewood (which has had some great updates since that blog) my plan had been to dive head first into Doraemon: A Story of Seasons....
Jan 28, 2020
Really should have noticed the version number on this screen before hitting play. 2019 was a particularly rubbish year in our little house. We went through losing family members and job redundancies which pushed us into challenging times mentally and financially, which alongside all the other life stuff changed the way I was able to approach and play games – up until recently a major part of my...
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