Dragon is Dead (PC) Review

I’ve now spent 13 hours playing Dragon is Dead. Most of that time was spent dying over, over, and over again to gorgeously hideous bosses, some of that time theorycrafting optimal skill trees to get me one room farther. The roguelike gameplay loop of “one more run” fueled me to play well into the night, at my own expense, even though I wasn’t “winning” in the traditional sense. I know full well th...[Read More]

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (PC) Review

What is a “yoyovania?” Brazilian developer Pocket Trap claims that Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo is the world’s first “yoyovania” – a 2D top-down adventure with a protagonist whose sole weapon is not a melee sword or ranged magic item – but a yoyo. Yes, dear reader, the pre-2000s hunk of plastic on a string that you and I both saw many folks do cool things with but never manage to do ourselves. ...[Read More]