Released in 2023, Meg's Monster is an RPG that takes very clear inspiration from Undertale, both in terms of world design and in its sense of humor. We play as Roy, an incredibly strong monster with a love for toxic sludge as he sets out to protect a young girl, Meg, in his quest to return her to the surface world. What the game lacks in length or difficulty, it makes up for in spades with its adorable sprite work and a genuinely novel and engaging combat system. Though the w

The year 2020, with all of the absolute insanity that led up to and occurred during it, will likely stand as one of the most fascinating times in modern history. I truly do not envy those who have to study everything that occurred during this incredibly strange year. However, one of the things that will likely help to show just how bizarre the world was is to look at the media that arose from it, and Five Dates, developed by Wales Interactive, does a fairly good job of captur

Inspired by his love of reading through the fictional bestiaries of Dungeons & Dragons, developer Nick Lives began work on Home Safety Hotline in 2020, going so far as to create a prototype that was later abandoned. After discovering the analog horror genre and inspired by Hypnospace Outlaw, Lives resumed working on the concept, deciding to lean into the 90's era media formats. Set in the year 1996, we play as someone who has been recruited to work at the titular Home Safety