THE VERDICT
Reviews
In-depth looks at indie games worth your time.
The pitch alone sells it: four construction workers, hired by the mafia to bury a body in concrete at the top of a skyscraper they have to build first. Oh,…
Raft survival is a crowded genre, but SHORE leans hard into physics: every wave and every misplaced bit of weight tips your fragile platform toward disaster.
One player floors the ambulance while the others fight to keep a patient alive in the back. Emergency Buddies mines the same overlapping-panic vein as the best co-op sims.
Pitched as Spec Ops: The Line meets The Stanley Parable, War Fantasy is a psychological-horror FPS built over nine years by a lone former Call of Duty developer.
Prop hunt is a beloved format, but it has not evolved much in years. FAKE ME changes that by handing players the tools to build their own disguises from scratch.
Most survival games start you as a person. The Undergrowth starts you as a bug, and asks you to claw your way up an entire food chain full of other…
Physics-based co-op comedies live and die on chaos, and crewing a falling-apart airline with illegal cargo is a premise practically engineered for it.
When the director of Dragon Ball FighterZ starts building an anime sword-fighting game, it is worth paying attention. VARVARION wants to make you feel like the star of an anime&hel...