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While the last few years have seen the emergence of several great education programs like Babbel, Duolingo, and Rosetta Stone that offer a gamified version of language learning, we are now at the point that there are also straight-up games with actual game mechanics that are focused on language learning. This list collects the four …
Outer space has compelled humanity as long as we’ve been humans, which has led to varied explorations of space survival in all types of media, including games. However, many of these games have either been focused on ship-to-ship space combat or FPS combat once you’ve landed on a planet (or both!), leaving pacifists out in …
Galaxy Trader: A Space Sim For Peaceful Merchants Read More »
Back in the mid 2000s, anyone whose family had gotten an eMachines desktop from Best Buy (you can swap out the details to fit your own personal experience as necessary) was soon met with a siren song in the form of the WildTangent Games Launcher, which might as well have felt like an infinite arcade …
WildTangent’s FATE Still Holds Up Surprisingly Well Read More »
Collapsus is a block breaking/matching game that literally changes the game by allowing you to tilt the game screen in any of the four main directions you want, meaning you can cause each and every block to fall up, down, left, or right as necessary for your strategic moves. The first time I played it, …
Collapsus is the Final Frontier of Block Breaking Games Read More »
In case you haven’t heard, the Slay the Spire devs recently released a new game, albeit a free one made in three weeks as part of both a game jam and a protest against Unity (the game was made in Godot). Even with those caveats, it’s straight up a lot of fun, and as the …
Dancing Duelists is Super Auto Pets X Slay the Spire Read More »
I recently found myself with a few dollars in my Steam wallet (thanks to selling trading cards and Counter-Strike 2 drops), which I used as an opportunity to find some hidden gems for cheap. First, I finally added Fallout: New Vegas to my Steam account for a measly $2.49, but I still had some left …
Tiny Civilization is a Huge Achievement in Puzzle Gaming Read More »
A few years ago, a little mobile game called Fallout Shelter came out and blew everyone’s mind. Here was a free mobile game that was actually meant to be played as much as the player wanted, with none of the forced timers or paywalls that then plagued (and still plague) most mobile games. Sure, Bethesda …
Play The Elder Scrolls: Castles (AKA Fallout Shelter 2) Now! Read More »
KartRider Drift is Nexon’s latest entry in their series of kart racers, and it’s a lot of fun for anyone who doesn’t have a Nintendo device that they can play Mario Kart on. KartRider Drift also has the benefit of being cross-platform, meaning you can play the same account on your computer and your phone …
Fellow KartRider Drifters: Please Play Speed Mode! Read More »
If you’re like me and put hours and hours into Marvel Puzzle Quest a few years ago, you might have been sitting around wondering what to do next. Well, worry no more, because DC is here with Heroes and Villains, their own Match 3 RPG for smartphones. It’s a lot of fun, but before long …
Stuck In DC Heroes And Villains? Try These Steps. Read More »
If you’re into video games, you know Doom. Whether it defined your childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, or whether you just like seeing people trying to get it to run on increasingly ridiculous devices, the game that spawned the FPS genre (well, along with Wolfenstein 3D) is unarguably one of the most influential of all time. …