Faerie Solitaire

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Developer: Subsoap

This game sounded weird to me, so obviously I had it on my radar as something I wanted to play. A Steam Winter Sale had allowed me to do so at a very discounted price., so I took a chance and went for it. According to Steam's timer, it took me about 10.8 hours to make my way through the main story mode, so I got roughly 11 hours of gameplay for around $2 - not too shabby, eh? The idea of the game is to pull a card from the deck at the bottom. If the card you pull has any cards one value higher or one value lower, you can pull it from the stacks of cards on the upper part of the screen. You can continue to pull cards until you no longer have any cards one higher or lower than the card at the bottom of the screen. Get enough cards in one run, and you'll get yourself a combo. It's a very simple game, but it's also very addicting. Faerie Solitaire is aimed towards casual gamers more so than the hardcore group, but it's still a very enjoyable game if you just want something relaxing to play so you can pass a few minutes of your time here and there.  

Review added: 08/13/2019

Fallout

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Developer: Black Isle Studios

I’m a huge fan of the Fallout franchise after Bethesda took control. Before then, not as much. I’ve never really gotten into this style of RPG. I’m trying to as I type this…expect to see more RPGs like this on this website in the near future…but give me a good, turn-based JRPG and that’ll likely always be my preferred game. The original Fallout has you exploring the Wasteland in a 3rd-person isometric view. As you explore, you’ll discover new locations, get attacked by monsters and marauders, and run into situations where you’ll have to pick a moral choice, with townsfolk reacting to you based on your decisions. Now while I’ve said that this style of RPG has never really been a favorite of mine, Fallout is still done well enough where I still kept coming back to play it again and again. I would always pick exploring the Wasteland 1st-person style over this, but if recent fans of the franchise are interested in seeing where Fallout began, the original is a solid entry in its own right and well worth playing.

Review added: 03/07/2020

Father's Day

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Developer: EMIKA_GAMES

Father's Day is the prequel to Find Yourself, and a much better game overall. Like Find Yourself, I like the concept of the story, but there's still holes in it - not as many as Find Yourself had, but still enough to make me wonder why certain story elements were introduced when they seemingly had no real purpose for being introduced other than they were cool for a brief part of the story. Overall, though, EMIKA_GAMES improved on most things from Find Yourself and included little easter eggs for folks to find that had played through their previous games. It's not flawless - there were multiple times when the "hand" icon would appear so I could interact with something, and it wouldn't recognize my mouse click unless I backed away to make the hand disappear, then reposition myself until the hand reappeared. The game also feels like it overstays its welcome a tad…by the end, I was really wishing it'd be over soon. Overall, though, Father's Day is an okay, passable game if you're a fan of horror games and walking simulators.

Review added: 10/31/2024

Fears to Fathom: Home Alone

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Developer: Rayll

I was expecting to like Fears to Fathom: Home Alone….so I was pretty disappointed when I didn't like it very much. The concept of Fears to Fathom is that you're a young teenager, left home alone for the weekend. You wake up in the middle of the night on the first night, noticing that some guy is poking around the house, looking through the windows and ringing the doorbell. Apparently your mother also suffers from insomnia and is staying across the street from your house….I guess…because she'll send you a picture from across the street showing a strange man standing in front of the door asking you who that man is, but not making any effort to save her child. I didn’t bother finishing this game because I just wasn't enjoying it, honestly. Between the text messages, that you can type in a reply for, but apparently can't send, and the story that just felt slow and boring, it just didn't hold my attention. I'll probably revisit this game down the road since I did purchase the other games in the Fears to Fathom series, and if playing all the way through changes my mind, I'll adjust my score and add to this review for it…but for now, I'm just really not a fan at all.

Review added: 10/31/2023

Find Yourself

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Developer: EMIKA_GAMES

Find Yourself is…well, too much. In my opinion, anyway. Not in the gameplay department, mind you….that may be too simplistic for the tastes of some, but I'm talking about the story. There's a lot of holes in the story, it seems like they tried to cram way too many things into a simple idea, and the train setting seems to have been just thrown in there because it was thought that it could be a scary setting. I don't want to sound harsh, but I generally enjoy stories like the one found here…but it just felt like too much was stuffed into it. It felt like putting a hat on a hat, as the kids say. Anyway, as I mentioned, the gameplay itself is simple - it's a little more involved than some other EMIKA_GAMES titles, like you can actually die in this one. It also involves you being in a small, confined space, looking at your environment to determine how to advance things along…think of when you see two seemingly identical pictures side-by-side and you're asked to find the differences between the two...that's essentially your task here. You'll want to look for notes that appear out of nowhere or anything else that doesn't look like it was there before. All of that said, I generally like EMIKA_GAMES and the product that they put out…but I just can't justify giving this a higher score. Instead of Find Yourself, you should find a better game.

Review added: 10/31/2024

Fire Pro Wrestling World

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Developer: ZEX Corporation

I had waited nearly a decade for a new Fire Pro Wrestling title after Fire Pro Wrestling Returns was released. As soon as Spike put out a hint regarding this game, I instantly knew my dreams had come true and I danced around the house like MC Hammer in celebration...okay, it was more like Elaine Benes dancing...but doesn't matter. A happy dance is a happy dance, regardless of talent or style. Anyway, the early access release of Fire Pro Wrestling World showed a lot of promise, but felt like exactly that - early access to an unfinished product. Unfortunately, when the game "officially" released nearly 6 months later, it still felt like an unfinished product. To Spike's credit, they do continuously update the game, and have released DLC modes to play...but I just can't give the game a better score because it feels like the DLC should have been part of the "final product." That said, as I add this to the website, I have spent 326 hours playing this, and I'm sure I'll easily at least double that before my time with this game is finished. So, despite my criticism, I do still love this game to death...even if it does feel kind of like Fire Pro Wrestling Returns 1.5. If you love professional wrestling, want a wrestling game with an insane amount of customization, and don't mind if it lacks game modes of fancy, 3D graphics then Fire Pro Wrestling World may be a game that you fall in love with, too.

Review added: 11/21/2018

Firewatch

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Developer: Campo Santo

Taking place in Wyoming in the year 1989, Firewatch is a game where you take the role of a man that takes a job watching for wildfires in the Wyoming wilderness while sitting atop your tower…But being confined to a watch tower doesn’t sound like the makings of a great game, does it? So, of course, something eventually lures you away from the tower and the events that follow lead to an interesting mystery with plenty of secrets and easter eggs to discover along the way. Firewatch is not an action-packed game, so a lot of folks might consider this to be a “walking simulator.” However, with the beautiful art style, it’s usually pretty relaxing to walk around in the 80’s Wyoming forest and just admire the scenery that Campo Santo put together. Firewatch probably isn’t for everyone, but if you like to explore in your games and want a decent story to go along with that exploration, then Firewatch may be right up your alley. I definitely liked it.

Review added: 06/25/2020

Five Nights at Freddy's

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Developer: animdude

Five Nights at Freddy’s took the world by storm when it was released…in roughly a year and a half, the game had spawned a few sequels and put out plenty of merchandise. There’s a reason, too – it’s pretty fun for such a simple concept. Your goal is to prevent the animatronic animals (located inside Chuck E. Cheese rip-off, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza restaurant) who become murderous at night, from entering your security guard room and ripping you limb from limb…The strategy comes in the form of working cameras, lights, and doors to figure out where these robotic ruffians are and keep them away from you. Unfortunately, all of your defenses run on battery power…so if you constantly keep yourself protected, the batteries will guarantee to run out before dawn. So, you’ve got to leave yourself vulnerable for part of the night if you plan to survive. If that’s not enough to get you on edge, the sound is done extremely well in terms of both giving you an idea of what’s coming as well as bringing your stress level up. While most of your scares will come from jump scares, the audio in the game helps you feel uneasy before any jumps start happening. Keep in mind, Five Nights at Freddy’s isn’t perfect, but it was created well enough, and simple enough, where even casual gamers couldn’t help but try to survive the five nights.

Review added: 05/19/2020

Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle

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Developer: Blue Wizard Digital

Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle is an interesting puzzle game that mixes the violence of the Friday the 13th movies with cutesy graphics and strategic, puzzle-based gameplay. Basically, in Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle, you control Jason Vorhees, while the decapitated head of Pamela Vorhees instructs you to eliminate campers, prison inmates, cruise ship guests, or an assortment of other victims. The controls are simple – use the arrow keys to move up, down, left, or right on each stage. When you move, you continue to move until you hit a wall or object on the stage…or, of course, you'll stop when you need to stab someone in the throat with a frozen fish. Killer Puzzle is actually pretty well done, the cutsey graphics are charming, and make the extreme violence seem comical. It’s free to play on most platforms, but it’s done well enough where it’s worth paying for if there is no free-to-play option. I’ve put most of my time into the Steam version, but I also put a little time into the Android version and either way, you’ve got a solid puzzle game here– especially if you’re looking for a way to exercise your brain during the Halloween season.

Review added: 10/12/2020

Friday the 13th: The Game

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Developer: IllFonic

Friday the 13th: The Game can be both fun and frustrating. It’s fun because it’s basically a deadly, deathmatch-style game of hide and seek with you taking the role of Jason, the seeker, or the camp counselors, the hiders. It’s good fun stalking the counselors or trying to find effective hiding spots to flee from Jason. The frustrating aspects come from the bugs. This game can be extremely buggy. In the single-player mode, I’ve had a few times where I had to quit the game because a counselor froze when trying to hide under a bed, making them impossible to kill. The bugs don’t end there either, you can find plenty of bugs from the multiplayer games when you do a simple Google search. Thankfully, IIIFonic has fixed some of the issues with patches…but as of this writing, several glitches still remain. Still, even with the glitches, the game is still mostly fun. If the developers had spent more time tweaking everything and polishing it up a bit, it could have been so much better. As it stands, though, it's still work playing for fans of the movie franchise.

Review added: 10/16/2019

FrightShow Fighter

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Developer: 3 Fright

FrightShow Fighter caught my eye because of the art direction…and once the game started, I instantly fell in love with how everything looked. Unfortunately, that’s all the praise I can really give this otherwise sub-par fighting game. FrightShow Fighter is not a smooth fighting game…at all. I think the developers knew this and might have tried to even that out by making the game laughably easy. I beat the first version of arcade mode on normal with no difficulty. So, I went for hard mode on the second and third versions of arcade mode. Aside from the fact that the AI attacks slightly more aggressively, it was just as easy as normal was. In fact, when I battled the “hidden” final boss in the third arcade mode, I got a perfect victory in round one and took a whopping single hit in round two on my way to victory. I like the art direction of FreakShow Fighter. I like the playable characters. Unfortunately, the gameplay is as charming as neither.

Review added: 10/12/2020

Frog Fractions

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Developer: Twinbeard Studios

I tend to label Frog Fractions as an 'action' game...But it has parts of the game that are action, bullet-hell shooter, text adventure, economy simulator, and a few others all rolled into one bizarre little package.  Essentially, the game starts out looking like an educational game for small children to help them learn math....and then it just gets more bizarre and psychadelic the longer that you play. The game takes about 30-60 minutes to beat and is well worth the time and effort to do so. This is the kind of game that I would make if I was a game developer...Really odd, and all over the place...But still entertaining. It's free to play and can be found at twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions if you’ve still got the ability to play a flash game in your browser. If you don’t, then no worries, Twinbeard recently put the game up for free on Steam as well.

Review added: 08/05/2020

Frog Legs

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Developer: Elliot Dahle

If you want a very short, quirky game with horror elements, then Frog Legs isn't an awful choice. Basically, Frog Legs starts out as a simple game of Frogger, but with the frogs being able to talk with each other…after one of the frogs winds up being a bloody smear on the street, the other frogs flee and find their way out of two dimensions and into three dimensions, eventually finding their way back to pixelated two dimensions. During this short game, you'll play Frogger, solve a few easy puzzles, and play a few areas that play like a typical horror game and/or a classic first-person shooter. It's not mind-blowing by any stretch, but its passable for what it is…and since it's short, the game doesn't overstay its welcome. Had this game gone one or two hours, I probably would have wanted to stick my finger in an electrical outlet by the end…but roughly a half hour to complete this game isn't too rough. I am somewhat confused by a part in the game where a fire needs to go out…the method that put out the fire should have instead turned the room into a crematorium. Anyway, Frog Legs isn't anything special, but it's a nice little game if you're looking for something unique and quick to play during the Halloween season…or any other holiday where a frog splattered on pavement would be considered festive.

Review added: 10/19/2025

From the Past

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Developer: JustTomcuk

It's been about a year since I last played a game from JustTomcuk, so maybe I'm being a little forgiving here, but From the Past isn't absolutely terrible. I don't feel like it's passable, mind you, but if you're a fan of horror-themed walking simulators, you've probably played much worse that what you'll get here. Basically, in From the Past, you seem to be a guy that ran out of gas…and is just looking for a place to fill up. As you make your way through an abandoned town, you'll eventually find a gas station. And on a side note, this abandoned town is full of missing persons posters, for some reason - who thinks that putting flyers in an abandoned town is going to help find these people? Hey, there's an overturned bus…let's attach a missing person flyer to it. It seems to serve as a way to put some of the development team in the game (maybe?) but it doesn't really make much sense when you stop and think about it. Anyway, after you find the gas station, you fill up a canister with gas and then wind up inside an old house. The remainder of the game is trying to escape from that house. The odd thing is that outside of the house, you're told to jump and crouch (though it seemed like there was only a need to do each one once) but once inside the house, those controls no longer work. They're not needed, but odd that they're taken out. Anyway, all in all, From the Past isn't the worst game I've played, but it's definitely a flawed one. I didn't mind the hour I spent playing it, but I'm not sure if I'd be willing to spend another hour to play through it again at some point.

Review added: 10/19/2025

FTL: Faster Than Light

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Developer: Subset Games

It took about 10 months of me hearing how good FTL is from various friends before I finally caved in and played it. It just didn't sound like a game for me. I really should listen to my friends more...When I finally sat down and dedicated some time to playing it, I didn't want to stop. FTL is a real-time strategy-based rougelike that has you traveling through space, fighting other spaceships, fighting enemies that have boarded your ship (or enemies while you board their ship), and buying new weapons and power-ups to help you survive the mission at hand. It's simple, but dang it, it's addicting. One of my friends put it best when he said that he got more playtime out of this $10 game than he got out of most big-time releases...As of this writing, he's plugged about 164 hours into it, according to his Steam log. FTL is a great example of how an indy game can be just as good, and even better than, most of the large publishers and developers can make...Even without the fancy, schmancy graphics.

Review added: 09/04/2019