First conceptualized while developers Chip Moore and Dylan Takeyama were in college, the pair set out to match the gameplay style of older tactical RPGs, such as Fire Emblem and Shining Force, with a modern look. Created in GameMaker, the game saw a successful Kickstarter campaign before being surprise released on Steam and later ported to the NIntendo Switch. The story follows a group of military academy students who get swept up in a questionable war before finding themsel

When I first started this site, the idea was to play and write about one game a week. I began by playing games in January of 2025, building up a backlog of games to write about, then started this site in late May with twice weekly updates every month since June 2025. Two updates a week allowed me to finish writing about the games I had played at a pace that would put me at 52 games played and written about for the year. I shot past the initial goal of 52 games played, hitting

Developed as the second game from Black Tabby Studios, a Canadian based indie developer consisting of husband and wife Tony Howard-Arias and Abby Howard, Slay the Princess is psychological horror visual novel that tasks players to, surprise, slay a princess. While this may seem like an overall straight forward goal, it becomes clear pretty quickly that there's much more going on. We begin our journey as an unnamed character in the woods. The narrator sets the scene that we a