Category Archives: Video games

Try-It Tuesday: DARKARTA A Broken Heart’s Quest

Posted on August 25, 2020 by J.L. Hilton

I didn’t find out about DARKARTA: A BROKEN HEART’S QUEST until a representative from Tutti Frutti Interactive offered me a review copy earlier this month. The game came to PC in 2017 but mobile versions in eight languages are now … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: MODERN TALES Age of Invention

Posted on August 19, 2020 by J.L. Hilton

Despite its name, MODERN TALES: AGE OF INVENTION is set in the year 1900. As one might expect with steampunk, there are steam trains, airships and crazy gadgets. Emily Patterson is a headstrong, independent and educated female protagonist, who ditches skirts and corsets … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday DREAM DADDY

Posted on July 15, 2020 by J.L. Hilton

DREAM DADDY: A DAD DATING SIMULATOR is a visual novel video game released in 2017 for PC. The expanded Dadrector’s Cut was released for PlayStation 4 in 2018 and a Nintendo Switch version in 2019. I heard about DREAM DADDY because … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: THE SECRET ORDER Shadow Breach

Posted on July 7, 2020 by J.L. Hilton

This game is called THE SECRET ORDER: SHADOW BREACH on PlayStation, but it’s called The Secret Order 7 on Steam. It definitely felt like part of a series, with references to characters, story and events from, I assume, the past six games I … Continue reading →

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Completing the EVENTIDE trilogy

Posted on June 19, 2020 by J.L. Hilton

This week I played EVENTIDE 3: LEGACY OF LEGENDS, developed by The House of Fables and published by Artifex Mundi in 2017. I enjoyed the first Eventide game back in January 2018 and I tried the EVENTIDE 3 free demo back in September … Continue reading →

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Team Trashcake visits the SIMS

Posted on June 17, 2020 by J.L. Hilton

The troublesome Team Trashcake trio played Sims 4 today. Well, technically, IceStella played Sims 4 while Sulfur & I visited via headset to help create avatars of ourselves, choose outfits and decorate our rooms. I joined them about halfway through … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: EVENTIDE 2 Sorcerer’s Mirror

Posted on April 15, 2020 by J.L. Hilton

EVENTIDE 2: SORCERER’S MIRROR is a 2016 point-and-click puzzle-solving adventure developed by the House of Fables and published by Artifex Mundi. I had a good time playing the first game, Eventide: Slavic Fable, back in January 2018, so I wanted to complete the trilogy. The botanist Mary … Continue reading →

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It’s not the best choice, it’s … THE OUTER WORLDS

Posted on March 31, 2020 by J.L. Hilton

SPOILER ALERT * * * The second half of this article contains major story details * * * THE OUTER WORLDS felt like Firefly fanfiction, complete with twangy guitar riffs, a ragtag crew, old-timey frontier style speech, and an occasional cargo bay full of … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: UNTITLED GOOSE GAME

Posted on February 4, 2020 by J.L. Hilton

MY RATING: 10/10 HONKS!!! As far as I know, there is nothing quite like UNTITLED GOOSE GAME. Its simple, storybook graphics remind me of Burly Men at Sea and Unfinished Swan, while its humor and mischievousness are akin to Catlateral Damage … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: THE LAST OF US

Posted on January 25, 2020 by J.L. Hilton

MY RATING: 10,000 STEPS THE LAST OF US is an incredibly popular action-adventure survival horror game developed by Naughty Dog (who’s also behind the Uncharted franchise) and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as a PlayStation 3 exclusive in 2013. I downloaded the remastered version, free … Continue reading →