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Gay Road Trip RPGs Are A Thing Now, And I'm Into It

Love Conquers All gives queers the RPG we didn't know we needed

Isaiah Colbert

9/29/21 6:00PM

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Cruis'n Blast On The Switch Is Arcade Racing At Its Most Ridiculous

Dev Raw Thrills cares not for your realism or physics

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Breathedge Is So, So Good, But Also So, So Bad

The calm, gentle survival of Subnautica, with the morbidly unfunny comedy of an eleven-year-old

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Hands On: Metroid Dread's First Hour Is Legit Kinda Terrifying

Samus’ latest adventure might deliver the nail-biting tension I crave from the series

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Wonderbox Is Like Zelda Meets Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker

This gorgeous Apple Arcade game tosses some Terraria into the mix, too

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Astria Ascending Is The Prettiest Turn-Based Game I’ve Ever Played

Final Fantasy devs create a prettier Octopath Traveler, but with messier themes

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Diablo II: Resurrected Is Mostly Just Diablo II, For Better Or Worse

Blizzard can't hide a classic but worn foundation with nicer graphics

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Gas Station Simulator Is One Of Steam's Biggest Games Right Now, With Good Reason

Gas Station Simulator is giving me retail flashbacks

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Skatebird Puts Cinnamon Roll Birds In A Bleh Skateboarding Game

This Game Pass release imitates Tony Hawk but doesn't capture the magic

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Surprising No One, Pathfinder Still Incredibly Confusing In Video Game Form

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous has too many classes for my pitiful brain and limited calendar

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One Of 2021's Best Games Is A Match-3

Day Repeat Day combines visual novel with match-3, and it's somehow beautiful

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New Rocky Game Is Basically A Visual Novel With Arcade Boxing Action

Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions plays like someone modded a visual novel into Ready 2 Rumble

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True Roguelikes Like This Are For Sick People, Drink From My Poison Chalice

Rift Wizard leans hard into ridiculous builds and magical mayhem

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This Game Could Genuinely Turn An Arachnophobe Into A Spider-Lover

Webbed’s astounding controls and gorgeous world make room for an eight-legged friend

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Cloud Gardens Is A Relaxing Game About The End Of Our World

I blew my GotY writing deadline for 2020 (oop), but Cloud Gardens still rules this year, too

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The Great American Road Trip, Only It's The '90s And You're A Con Artist

The Big Con is filled with payphones, movie rental shops, and <insert other 1990s reference>

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Dive Into A Murder Mystery On This Creepy, Cyberpunk Wikipedia

Neurocracy imagines the grim, bloodless Wikipedia of our surveillance-laden future

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Wildermyth’s Incredible, Dynamic Storytelling Is Giving Me GotY Vibes

Wildermyth is a wildly inventive tactics game that gets why the genre is great

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Six Hours With Garden Story, A Zelda-Like For The Stardew Crowd

I’m just a video game grape doing my silly little tasks

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Medieval GTA Actually Works

Rustler plays a lot like Grand Theft Auto 2, but feels fresh thanks to its medieval theme

Zack Zwiezen

8/30/21 1:30PM

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Impressions

Gay Road Trip RPGs Are A Thing Now, And I'm Into It

Cruis'n Blast On The Switch Is Arcade Racing At Its Most Ridiculous

Breathedge Is So, So Good, But Also So, So Bad

Hands On: Metroid Dread's First Hour Is Legit Kinda Terrifying

Wonderbox Is Like Zelda Meets Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker

Astria Ascending Is The Prettiest Turn-Based Game I’ve Ever Played

Diablo II: Resurrected Is Mostly Just Diablo II, For Better Or Worse

Gas Station Simulator Is One Of Steam's Biggest Games Right Now, With Good Reason

Skatebird Puts Cinnamon Roll Birds In A Bleh Skateboarding Game

Surprising No One, Pathfinder Still Incredibly Confusing In Video Game Form

One Of 2021's Best Games Is A Match-3

New Rocky Game Is Basically A Visual Novel With Arcade Boxing Action

True Roguelikes Like This Are For Sick People, Drink From My Poison Chalice

This Game Could Genuinely Turn An Arachnophobe Into A Spider-Lover

Cloud Gardens Is A Relaxing Game About The End Of Our World

The Great American Road Trip, Only It's The '90s And You're A Con Artist

Dive Into A Murder Mystery On This Creepy, Cyberpunk Wikipedia

Wildermyth’s Incredible, Dynamic Storytelling Is Giving Me GotY Vibes

Six Hours With Garden Story, A Zelda-Like For The Stardew Crowd

Medieval GTA Actually Works