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GunHero game screenshot, missiles

Review - GunHero

GunHero combines a couple of recent retro favorites into a run-’n’-gun platforming game that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Read our review.


Tiles game screenshot, disappearing tiles

Review - Tiles

Tiles is either a puzzle game pretending to be an action game or the other way around. Test your reflexes and/or spatial logic and read our full review.


PulseCharge - An Indie Game Review

PulseCharge is an old school platformer with just enough soft edges to keep newcomers to the genre from getting frustrated. Do you have the “heart” to face its challenges? Read on…


Mushroom 11, screenshot 2

Review: Mushroom 11

Mushroom 11 offers a new approach to the puzzle platformer. Destroy and regenerate a blob of mold across a perilous landscape bristling with deadly traps. Read our full review.


Axiom Verge screenshot - Boss

Review: Axiom Verge

Axiom Verge by Thomas Happ LLC is a great example of how to do a Metroidvania right. Its inspirations are clear, but it does enough to stand out. Read more…


A Pixel Story, the Chosen One

Review: A Pixel Story

A Pixel Story is the latest video game about video games; it’s also a fiendishly difficult platformer. Read the full review…


Pentumble screenshot - green key

Review: Pentumble for iOS

Don’t let the idea of a 2D platformer on a touch device scare you off. Pentumble is one of the few 2D platformers that does controls right. Read more…


Concursion, ninja and platform stripes

Review: Concursion

Concursion takes all of the hardest ’80s and ’90s video game genres and jams them right inside a Mario-style platformer.


Battleblock Theater screenshot - Hub Area

Review: BattleBlock Theater

BattleBlock Theater from The Behemoth, is an absurd 2D platformer filled with Evil cats, exploding frogs, sadism and crude humor. Read the full review…