Game Log

When Steam launched in the early 2000s and everyone hated the idea of downloading their games, there were only... more

The Crimson Diamond is a throwback to early Sierra 3-D adventure games like King’s Quest and Space Quest. Unlike... more

Part two is more of the same from this Mexican brawling platformer. You explore the world and as you... more

This is part of a five game package of Might and Magic games that GOG.com goes on sale for... more

It’s Portal with cubes! Not quite, but it’s still a spacial puzzle game in which you are trapped in... more

The Last Story is billed as an RPG but it’s really a third-person action game with very limited options... more

A Borderlands 2 stand alone expansion that is more of the same from this franchise. In this one, you... more

Skald was one of handful of Kickstarter projects that I have backed. It is a throwback tribute to 80s... more

I couldn’t resist the pull of Fallout after a recent playthrough of Fallout 1. This is the second time... more

I just finished watching the pretty good T.V. adaptation of the game and was inspired to start up a... more

The second Legend of Grimrock takes the retro dungeon crawl mechanics that worked so well in the first game... more

Technically this is just an expansion pack for Ion Fury, but this is a full-game’s worth on content. The... more

On a quick nostalgia kick I went back and replayed this, the first Sega Genesis game I ever played.... more

Decades ago I played through Quake II and I remember being quite impressed with the opening cinematic. Starship Troopers... more

Are all indie games style over substance? I guess this game is okay if you are playing it as... more

This game absolutely sucks. The graphics are just what you’d expect from a `1998 Quake engine game. The problem... more

I didn’t immediately warm up to this platform shooter. For one thing, it’s very twitchy, chaotic, and brutally unfair... more

Zelda games had been in a bit of a rut lately (as in 2015 lately). Sure the games were... more

In this point and click puzzle adventure you control Emily on her quest to find her missing cats. Apparently... more

Rise of the Triad is a first-generation FPS that technologically sits somewhere between Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom. In fact,... more

I really wanted to like this game. It feels almost like No One Lives Forever in it’s hip spy... more

Ion Fury is more than the nostalgia cash-in that its marketing might suggest. It an FPS that gets to... more

In Control you are in control of Jesse. She’s been plunked down into a giant, oppressively designed government building... more

It’s time to return the steampunk world of Dishonored in which you sneak around and strangle everyone who crosses... more

In the end this just became tedious. While you control your character like an FPS, this is almost a... more

The Talos Principle is a solid puzzle game in which you manipulate objects around rooms to connect light beams,... more

I’m surprised that I enjoyed this kid-friendly platformer as much as I did. It leans in heavy into its... more

This is the first Castlevania sequel I have ever completed. I’ve played the first five minutes of Symphony of... more

Lately I have become obsessed with bullet-hell shmups like this. I’d see these images of these impossible patterns of... more

I played all of the sequels to this RPG that were available on the Sega Genesis, two on the... more

Every couple of years I get back into emulation, mostly as a reaction against some massive open-world game I... more

For some time now I have been interested in playing various SHMUPs in MAME. Some of the best looking... more

Wasteland is considered a classic RPG from the Apple ][ era but it’s one that I never played back... more

I was actually enjoying this game but, after twelve or so hours of play, I discovered that the GOG... more

Aer takes a 1995 Zelda aesthetic and makes it into a boring slog. This game felt like a college... more

With this game I have finally played all the key 90s RPG classics. I attempted to play a few... more

I was quite a bit hesitant to get this game because I had heard that a big part of... more

I don’t know why I keep thinking these Resident Evil games might actually be good. Everything about RE6 is... more

The third in the reboot series which is more or less the same as its predecessors. Excellent graphics, the... more

Prey takes a very ambitious approach to game play. There are always multiple paths towards achieving your goals and... more

Thief 2 has not aged terribly well. I’m usually not one to complain about dated graphics, but in this... more

The fake red Boba Fett is at it again in this sequel to Crusader: No Remorse and he just... more

With the completion of this playthrough, I have now completed all the Ultima games (technically I never finished Ultima... more

Ultima V is perhaps the pinnacle of gaming on the Apple ][ computer system. While I thought that Nox... more

This game goes out of its way to let you know that it’s about mental illness; and that they... more

Nox Archaist (no relation to Nox) has come up several times before on this site as it was a... more

The original Mirror’s Edge was one of only a handful of games that I had gone back and replayed... more

The Wasteland 2 sequel sorta came out of nowhere for me. The previous game was one of the first... more

No More Heroes is a spazzy fighting/action game for the Wii in the vein of say Madworld. It leans... more

Along with Karateka and Prince of Persia this may be one of the most solid story-oriented action games on... more

Although I am very nostalgic for many a game on the system, the Apple ][ was never the ideal... more

Yet another walking simulator, but this time it’s in space! So, technically it’s a floating simulator. The gimmick here is that you can... more

I think it’s time I finally accept the fact that I don’t really like Infinity Engine style games anymore.... more

Hexen was another mid-nineties FPS that, I swear, I played the demo of several times but never played the full... more

The third game in the Fallout series eschews much of its RPGness and concentrates on combat instead. I always liked the... more

I vowed to avoid open world games but then GOG.com goes and makes Saints Row 2 free. This series has always... more

Hob is from the same studio that created Torchlight and much of the same beautiful artistic style is on display here. This... more

The WiiU is not known for much other than being a failure. The whole two screen thing doesn’t make... more

Legend of Grimrock brings the real-time dungeon crawl formula of Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder to the modern age. Perhaps the best... more

The only thing Transistor has going for it is a beautiful art style and high-quality voice acting. The rest is an... more

I must have attempted to play this game about a dozen times. I would download it from some abandonware... more

Hey, it’s a walking simulator with a twist… swimming! I’ll give it this, Abzû is a very nice looking and great... more

The biggest puzzle in this modestly sized point-and-click adventure is figuring out how to get it to even run.... more

I think this is a reboot. Was there actually a plot in the original Doom? Whatever the case, this version of Doom is... more

GNOG is a cute little puzzle game in which you are left to click and poke around without any instructions... more

Ruiner rages with a riot of red. So much red. It’s like an entire game based on a Photoshop filter... more

This game has been sitting in my to-do list for quite some time. I got it as a freebie... more

There was some sort of nuclear apocalypse and the citizens of Moscow were forced to live in the city’s... more

This is the sequel to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Like its predecessor, this is an isometric puzzle... more

I could have sworn I had played this game before, but I wasn’t completely sure. I get this one... more

Part two of the Tomb Raider reboot doesn’t offer anything really new in terms of game play but that’s okay. The... more

Martian Dreams is built on the same game engine as Ultima VI. Much like that game, it is much less of... more

This game is part of a Tomb Raider three pack at GOG.com. I tried to play Tomb Raider 1, but I had already... more

Nex Machina is the (almost) official follow-up to Robotron: 2084 or, as I like to call it, the greatest arcade game ever... more

Another walking simulator but this time with a horror theme. The whole point of this “game” is to make... more

The Witness is from the same developer who created the superb Braid. It feels like a cross between that game and Myst. Once... more

A Story About My Uncle is a game based entirely around a single game mechanic, a grappling beam. Players shoot... more

Time to break out that pad of graph paper again and start charting the depths of nerd-dom. Eye of the... more

This “limited edition” version was one of the first games I bought for the Wii. It’s been sitting on my stack of... more

As with most of the great shareware titles of the 90s, I played the free episode of Wolfenstein 3D a gazillion... more

I think this is considered by many to be one of the best point and click adventure games of... more

The original Serious Sam became an unexpected hit when it received the approval of Old Man Murray. While other games were trying... more

Well, this is a Zelda game. The formula has remained unchanged ever since The Ocarina of Time. The princess has... more

Shadow Warrior 2 is a fast and wild shooter that continues in much the same vein as the first reboot... more

All these Ubisoft open-world games (Assassins Creed, Watch Dogs, etc.) follow the same basic formula. Main story which you can take your... more

The only thing this game has going for it is its art direction. There’s some wonderful hand-drawn characters and... more

The first few hours of Alien: Isolation are some of the most nerve-racking gaming I have ever experienced. It’s a stealth... more

In the 90s, I tried playing the demo of this game many times and could never really get into... more

Vanquish is a third-person action game that has little to offer in terms of plot or characters. Its story feels... more

With the completion of VI, I’m getting close to having played all the games in the Ultima series. I own boxed... more

At this point I think we can all basically agree that every game that Wadjet Eye releases is going... more

I think with this I have finally played through all of the original Infinity Engine RPG games. Icewind Dale I... more

Ubisoft only knows how to make these open world games with paper-thin story lines and lots of side challenges... more

I remember watching my housemate play this game quite a bit back when we were in college. I don’t... more

I’ve been playing this off and on for the past few months. This is supposedly designed as a multiplayer... more

This game is a bit of a mixed bag. I really like the main characters and it has some genuinely... more

This one was a freebie from GOG.com of which I knew nothing about before playing it. Turns out, it is a... more

A while back I gave this game a spin during a Steam free weekend and ended up setting it... more

Games journalists (I can’t believe that’s really a thing) seem to love this game, I thought it was tiresome.... more

Eye of the Beholder is a real-time RPG dungeon crawl that borrows heavily from the mechanics of Dungeon Master. It’s a... more