Nate Hermanson
Early Access Check-in: Abiotic Factor is already one of my favorite games of 2024
Abiotic Factor is packed with the sci-fi flavors of Half-Life and Control, sprinkled with an undeniable cheeky dorkiness.
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Nate Hermanson
- Apr 16
- 8 min
REVIEW: Life Eater is Strange Scaffold's most twisted game yet (and they made a black market organ trading sim)
Being a weird little freak behind my computer screen because god told me to.
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Nate Hermanson
- Apr 15
- 8 min
REVIEW: Harold Halibut is a grand artistic achievement and a humbly quiet adventure
A story about feeling different than the people around you and struggling to find purpose in a world that tells you what your purpose is.
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Nate Hermanson
- Apr 10
- 7 min
REVIEW: Botany Manor is an accessibly cozy and surprisingly defiant escape room puzzler
Botany Manor: Gently compelling and seeded with cleverness.
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Nate Hermanson
- Apr 7
- 7 min
Early Access Check-in: Lightyear Frontier's great prelude to more farming mech sim action to come
We're just a couple'a stocky farmers inside giant mechs inside a lonely, alien world.
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Nate Hermanson
- Apr 4
- 7 min
REVIEW: Death Trick: Double Blind has more twists and turns than a high-flying acrobat
A slow burn of a mystery — full of surprising warmth, misdirection, tension, and surprise.
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Nate Hermanson
- Mar 28
- 8 min
REVIEW: Pepper Grinder is a drillin' platformer that's smooth as butter
Thrilling drilling and buttery smooth platforming. If this Pepper Grinder asked me to "say when" I simply wouldn't.
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Nate Hermanson
- Mar 25
- 7 min
REVIEW: Capitalism's a drag in the work-work balance simulator CorpoNation: The Sorting Process
CorpoNation's gameplay bravely toes a line between fun and total drudgery (on purpose) in this dystopian corporate world.
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Nate Hermanson
- Feb 25
- 7 min
REVIEW: Gambling's addictive?! Balatro's poker-based roguelite style showcases exactly that
By blending the inherently addictive nature of the roguelike with the go-big-or-go-home nature of poker, LocalThunk has ruined me.
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Nate Hermanson
- Feb 18
- 12 min
REVIEW: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth honors its past and sets up a brilliant future
I don't even think I ever want to go back to Like a Dragon after spending 85 hours in Infinite Wealth.
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Julie Cooper
- Feb 11
- 5 min
Steam Next Fest Mini-Preview: Cabernet’s intriguing vampire society sinks its fangs in
Heard y'all like vampires.
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Nate Hermanson
- Feb 8
- 5 min
Steam Next Fest 2024 Mini-Preview: Embrace open world simplicity and absurdity with Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip
Some dreams are worth anything — especially if that dream is a shoe-shaped car that'll catapult you into space someday.
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Nate Hermanson
- Feb 7
- 5 min
Steam Next Fest 2024 Mini-Preview: Destroy religious trauma with stylish character action combat in Death of a Wish
Fans of character action games, queer narratives outside of visual novels, and incredibly cohesive art projects... this one's for you.
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Nate Hermanson
- Feb 6
- 4 min
Steam Next Fest 2024 Mini-Preview: Arco accelerates tactical combat and decolonization
With Arco's Steam Next Fest demo, what you see is what you get. And WHEW, I like what I see.
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Julie Cooper
- Feb 5
- 8 min
Cozy games, cozy life: Four wholesome titles from Steam Next Fest February 2024
Frog care, detective ducks, floppy farmers, and serene architectural design — the future of cozy gaming is looking fine.
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Nate Hermanson
- Feb 3
- 6 min
REVIEW: Chronique des Silencieux's detective gameplay sacrifices playability for intrigue
Chronique des Silencieux is an interesting historical fiction approach to mystery, but beware of hiccups in translation and logic.
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Nate Hermanson
- Jan 23
- 8 min
REVIEW: Lil' Guardsman has big laughs, heart, and LucasArts energy
Hilltop Studios gets comedy. And we all could use a laugh these days.
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Nate Hermanson
- Jan 20
- 6 min
Backlog Busting: Into 2024 or Once is Enough?
We checked out four under-the-radar 2023 releases to determine what's worth carrying into 2024.
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Nate Hermanson
- Jan 18
- 9 min
Four bite-sized 2023 games you shouldn't miss
Can't buckle in for another 100-hour adventure right now? We see you. We feel you. We have four game recommendations for you.
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Nate Hermanson
- Jan 16
- 8 min
REVIEW: Protect your community and appease the creature in the shadows in Home Safety Hotline
Analog horror game Home Safety Hotline has you identifying pests and creepy entities for concerned callers.
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