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MICHAEL
Hey, I’m Michael , a programmer and lifelong gamer from Sydney. I built this site to share my love for games, especially indie titles and RPGs that leave a mark. You’ll find honest reviews, random thoughts, and plenty of nerdy enthusiasm here - all written between coding sessions and late-night gaming marathons. Feel free to reach out with game suggestions or just to chat about what you’re playing!
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8.2
14 days ago
Master Healer Kale review: somebody has to keep these idiots alive
Master Healer Kale with useless party · Evrac Studio
Evrac Studio's incremental RPG hands you the one job nobody volunteers for. The party swings on its own, you spend mana, and four hours later you have a 200 node skill tree and a permanently asleep tank who is somehow still standing. A$5.75, and it ends before it wears out.
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9.0
14 days ago
Big Walk review: the game is your friends yelling across a valley
Big Walk · Panic
House House followed Untitled Goose Game with a co-op adventure where the main verb is talking. Voice chat is positional, walkie-talkies crackle, and one stretch takes your speech away entirely and makes you invent a language. It needs at least one other person and a working mic, and it is worth organising the group chat for.
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6.0
27 days ago
Halo: Campaign Evolved Review: They Gave the Weapon a Personality
Halo: Campaign Evolved · Xbox Game Studios
Halo Studios rebuilt Combat Evolved in Unreal Engine 5 and the sandbox is still untouchable, but the writing hands the Chief a personality he was never meant to have, turns a death cult into a political faction, and lets Cortana explain the mystery. Beautiful, and the wrong version to start on.
GAME
8.2
28 days ago
How Many Dudes? Review: The Answer Is Always More Dudes
How Many Dudes? · Butterscotch Shenanigans
Butterscotch Shenanigans turned a schoolyard argument into a roguelike autobattler, and it works. Forty two dude types, hundreds of rule bending relics and an escalation curve that ends with a hundred little men against a wall of geese. Funny, deep enough to theorycraft, and it is on your phone too.
GAME
8.2
about 1 month ago
Go-Go Town! Review: The Mayor's Office Fits Four
Go-Go Town! · Prideful Sloth
Prideful Sloth's hands-on town builder finally left early access, and it is transformed by a second controller. The opening hours drag and it is a tycoon game rather than the Animal Crossing clone some people want, but the co-op and its host permission controls make it a rare management sim you can genuinely play with your kids.
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8.2
about 1 month ago
Pathogenic Review: I Am the Disease and Business Is Good
Pathogenic · Slug Disco
A twin-stick roguelike where you play the infection, tear organelles out of the cells you kill and bolt them onto your own body. The build system is the most inventive thing I have played all year, and I lost a week of evenings to it. The basic movement rules are the weak link.
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The Blood of Dawnwalker preview: thirty days and a Guitar Hero parry
Rebel Wolves' vampire RPG lands on 3 September with a thirty day deadline, days split into eight spendable units, and a directional parry its director compares to Guitar Hero. Everyone who has played it writes about the clock first.
◆ BREAKINGDemon's Souls Nearly Shipped in First Person, and the 2007 Pitch Deck Proves It
Lance McDonald has surfaced the internal presentation Japan Studio's Daisuke Ishidate gave at GameShare IV in May 2007. It carries a working title, a ship date of June 2008, and a build with a first person camera and no lock-on.
GTA 6's Gameplay Reveal Goes to Netflix First, and the Six Hour Wait Is the Product
Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look premieres on Netflix on 27 August, six hours before it reaches Rockstar's own channels for free. Nobody is being charged to watch a trailer, which is precisely what makes the arrangement worth arguing about.
Suikoden: The Anime Reveals Its Five Leads Before an October Start
Konami’s Suikoden II adaptation put Riliu, Jowy, Nanami, Viktor and Flik on one key visual ahead of an October 2026 premiere. The lineup says more about the adaptation’s scope than the staff list does.
Graveyard Keeper 2 Preview, What the Sequel Adds to the Cemetery Sim
Steam still says nothing more precise than 2026, but Graveyard Keeper 2 has screenshots now. Undead workers staff the benches, a defence layer guards the town, and the automation loop is doing the heavy lifting the original made you do on foot.
Expeditions: Samurai Preview: Sengoku Japan, Early Access First
Campfire Cabal follows Expeditions: Rome with a party-based RPG set during Japan’s civil wars. It hits Steam Early Access on August 7, with the full release planned for Q1 2027.