Gaming Critiques & Commentary

Gaming Critiques & Commentary

The aim is to provide unbiased, mostly spoiler free, reviews and articles on games of all kinds. I try to add two new articles, or reviews, a week. They should appear sometime on Monday and Thursday night.


Kolobok Giveaway Results

11 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments The GCC

Just a quick follow up to my article from last week (which can be found here: https://www.publish0x.com/gaming-critiques-commentary/kolobok-review-xrnoknm), where I noted that readers could submit a WAX address in a reply to enter to win a breeding p...

Magic: Legends - We Hardly Knew Ye

5 Jul 2021 1 minute read 1 comment The GCC

I didn't see anyone else posting about this on Publish0X, so I wanted to at least make a quick post about it. I am going to keep this relatively short. I was using this July 4th holiday weekend to try to catch up on playing some new games to review,...

Kolobok Review

4 Jul 2021 3 minute read 3 comments The GCC

Today I'll be taking a look at Kolobok, a simplistic web-based idle game by CryptoLions released earlier this year (around April of 2021 from what I could find). The term Kolobok comes from an Eastern Slavic folktale about a pastry that comes to life...

Mobile Money #17 – R-Planet

28 Apr 2021 3 minute read 0 comments The GCC

Who doesn’t want to get paid for playing video games? This series follows applications, some of which are borderline games at best, that claim to reward users with cold hard cash (or gift cards). In my pursuit of extra cash to blow on games, or Steam...

Papers, Please - Review

26 Apr 2021 2 minute read 1 comment The GCC

Today I'll be taking a look at Papers, Please (A Dystopian Document Thriller), created by Lucas Pope and released in August of 2013. In Papers, Please you take up the role of a newly appointed passport inspector stationed at a checkpoint on the borde...

Review of Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

19 Apr 2021 5 minute read 0 comments The GCC

Today I'll be taking a look at Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale by the Japanese developer EasyGameStation and published in the U.S. by Carpe Fulgur LLC. This game was originally released in 2007, with the English translation coming out on Steam in 2010...

Mobile Money # 16: Arcane Showdown - Battle Arena

12 Apr 2021 6 minute read 0 comments The GCC

Well, I'm behind on posting some of my series over here on Publish0x!  Apparently almost a year in some cases!  Big Huge Games has announced that it will be shutting down Arcane Showdown: Battle Arena. I had originally written about the game when it...

Healer Simulator Review

4 Apr 2021 3 minute read 0 comments The GCC

Today I'll be taking a look at the indie game Healer Simulator. This title was released on Steam in 2018 and was developed and published by one A. Filimonov. Normally I would link to the developer's website, or the official site for the game, but I h...

Apocalypse Series #20: Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut

13 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments The GCC

With the current COVID-19 pandemic occurring at the time of this writing, it seemed appropriate to take a look at some games that prominently feature the end of the world as we know it, or at least the post-apocalyptic landscape of the time after. Th...

Apocalypse Series # 19: Tabletop Simulator

21 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments The GCC

With the current COVID-19 pandemic occurring at the time of this writing, it seemed appropriate to take a look at some games that prominently feature the end of the world as we know it, or at least the post-apocalyptic landscape of the time after. Th...