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Absolum's (2025) got me in a headlock with its stunning art and crunchy brawling.

Ok yeah, The Exit 8 (2023) is as fun and unsettlingly as all of those youtubers said it was.

The Midnight Walk (2025) is a lantern-lit handcrafted wonder. Wish I could have played in VR so I could hold potboy and rub his belly.

Scuttling around as a tipsy lighthouse and solving puzzles with my seabird in Keeper (2025).

Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025) is just exquisite. Won’t lie, I doubted I could feel the core mystery and wonder of HK again, but no. Team Cherry took every second of the last seven years and made another beguiled masterpiece.

best beer pong mechanics in gaming too

The Alters (2025) floored me. Sweaty and heady scifi with intense pressure cooker gameplay and decision making that really captures the belabored buzz of late night group projects. I would do anything for my clones.

been hopping in group showers and blasting sticky notes with scott in FBC: Firebreak (2025)

Everyone was right about Hi-fi Rush (2023). A slick and stylish rhythm battler with an electric personality. Great game!

TOP 4 / SEPTEMBER 2025
work sucks

TOP 4 / AUGUST 2025
big dog cinema

TOP 4 / JULY 2025
Joe Pera’s four stages of watching fireworks

TOP 4 / JUNE 2025
cinema daddies

TOP 4 / MAY 2025
MAYDAY MAYDAY WE’RE GOING DOWN!
plane crash cinema

TOP 4 / APRIL 2025
flower power

I adored hiking with my beasts in Herdling (2025). Real feel the rush of mountain air type of game. Cuddle up with a big yak by the fire type of game. I loved each and every one of my lost calicorns.

Donkey Kong: Bananza (2025). Best game to feature collectible “britches” for my monkey.

Sword of the Sea (2025) is an enchanting exhilarating dreamscape. Fully embodies the best of this art form.

Minishoot' Adventures (2024). A twin stick bullet hell shooter with a zelda-like overworld to explore? Immediate instant gem.

Played Lost in Random: The Eternal Die (2025). Super solid Hades-like with a banging burton-esque art style.

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach (2025)

Wavetale (2022). Baited by the Windwaker x Journey flowstate surfing (it's ok), but hooked by the soundtrack (it's amazing). Notched Joel Bille as a composer I'm gonna have to follow from project to project from here on out.

Anger Foot (2024) is the ultimate energy drink, vape, and piss flavored toe thumper.

You can feel Wheel World (2025)'s love for cycling in every mechanic and line of dialouge. Messhof really nailed it. Big whooo-hooo wind in your hair type of game.

In Laika: Aged Through Blood (2023) you're an immortal coyote dirtbike warrior. Backflipping your way through a dusty, somber, and remoreseless motorvania. I adored it.

Stopping by Yoshi Burger to get a Yoshi Burger in Mario Kart World (2025), want anything?

Continuing summer with Spilled! (2025). A short n' sweet game where you slurp up oil in a tugboat.

I realllly grooved with Caravan SandWitch (2024)'s laidback seasalt and olive oil vibes. You offroad your van around a breezy post-scifi village and solve some mysteries while texting your friends. I hope they make a sequel with a 2004 Honda CRV.

Me and scott (my videogame boyfriend) splitting fiction in Split Fiction (2025).

Coming in on Doom: The Dark Ages (2025) being my favorite of this nu-trilogy? Found myself fully absorbed by it's new crunchy rhythms and immaculately diffused dusty scorchsets.