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Indies to Catch in November 2025!
November is upon us! How the time flies. GOTY season is brewing up, with lots of astonishing titles on the block, pushing shoulders and taking names. The big GOTY awards are in a bit of a sour spot - if they were 100% honest and not driven by corporate influence, it would be all Indies and AA season this year. SILKSONG, BLUE PRINCE, EXPEDITION 33, HADES 2, BALL x PIT ... The list goes on. But we all know some lip service will need to be given to a few big slammolas from the T
Hubert Spala
Nov 26 min read
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I know some of us suffer from a Wholesome Coziness Exposure syndrome. It's a topic I see rearing its head on various platforms - how the 'cozy' genre of games grew way out of proportion and became this leviathan of titanic proportions. There is a bit of jaded cynicism quivering under the skin there. Something unsavoury. I, for once, never got tired of seeing the explosion of this particular soft genre. I mean, nobody ever complained about having a deluge of cheapo-made horro
Hubert Spala
7 hours ago3 min read
DOG WITCH
I never thought I would like DOG WITCH . Now that's a spicy way to start a review! See, I think it is not exactly a secret that I am a bit of a roguelite addict. Add cards to it and a deck-building aspect and bam, I am in it like a pig snuffling for truffles. My friends always playfully mock me for consuming all those deck-builders and how I could enjoy CALL OF DUTY if it had some cards and roguelite elements in it properly. Anyway... The thing is that, yes, I am a consumer
Hubert Spala
2 days ago4 min read
GAME DISCOVERY, or how a Hobby needs your elbow grease.
Recently on BlueSky, an interesting conversation emerged. One I had with my friends a few times. I decided to ponder it here because, at around the same time, STEAM revealed its new "innovation" that aligned well with the topics. What am I talking about? Hobby Discovery. See, I am a firm believer that for someone to claim they have a hobby, they should not be a passive partaker in said activity. What does it mean? Sounds like elitist gatekeeping! How dare you, a nobody on the
Hubert Spala
3 days ago5 min read
DISPATCH
I am a big fan of Telltale Games. WOLF AMONG US was a treasure. TALES FROM THE BORDERLANDS were downright hilarious. It was a great tragedy that the studio sort of collapsed under its own ambition. Or at least, that is the story I heard, the whispered telling of how picking on too many projects, too many costly intellectual properties tanked its capability to deliver quality stuff. But as the saying goes - nature abhors a vacuum. It was written in the stars that a successor
Hubert Spala
4 days ago6 min read
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