2024 Videogames – Page 2 – Play Critically

Mika and the Witch’s Mountain Review

If the worst thing I can say about a videogame is I liked it so much I wish it were longer, that’s a videogame worth a player’s time.

Players who completed Dredge last year are once again given little reason to return for its second DLC course.

Despite a pleasing first impression, my time with Cat Quest III is submerged in disappointment with its strange design choices.

Arranger delights me as a puzzle videogame and perplexes me as a story.

Botany Manor will enrapture any fan of 1990s first-person puzzle videogames.

Turnip Boy Robs a Bank trades its predecessor’s off kilter humor for more robust and enjoyable videogame design.

Forges of Corruption is a true level pack in the first-person shooting tradition of DOOM—just avoid the Nintendo Switch version.

#BLUD’s incredible animations and note-perfect parodies of social media belie its empty world, tedious quests, and forgettable combat.

Hauntii is pretty to look at and a repetitive slog to play.

Pedestrian track design keeps Nightmare Kart from capitalizing on its strong Bloodborne-inspired kart racing fundamentals.