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Idle RPGs, MMOs, browser games and mobile RPGs, taken apart properly. Every review carries a score out of 10, what the game does well, what it does badly, and the kind of player it is actually for.

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Neon Dodge Review

A Bullet Hell Where You Never Fire a Shot Neon Dodge strips the genre it borrows from down to its single most stressful ingredient: the dodge. There's no gun, no return fire, n

7.1 / 10

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QPopGirl Review

A Claw Machine Grafted Onto a Roguelike Deckbuilder QPopGirl's premise sounds like a joke until it clicks: instead of drawing cards from a deck in the usual roguelike-deckbuild

7.4 / 10

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Silicon Path Review

A Round, Cartoonish Art Style Hiding a Brutal Precision Platformer Silicon Path's premise is a strange and specific one: you play an unrecorded silicon atom sent into the body

7 / 10

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Solvimus Review

A Ten-Hour Friendship Test, Built Strictly for Two Solvimus is a two-player cooperative puzzle game with a premise that doubles as a warning label: "do you like bad jokes, har

7.5 / 10

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Staged Review

Curtain Up, Chaos Guaranteed Staged is a first-person physics party game for one to four players, casting the group as mischievous goblin stagehands racing to rebuild theater sets

7.2 / 10

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Tyr Review

A Tank Shooter Built to Not Hate the Player Tyr is a free-to-play multiplayer tank shooter where positioning, patience, and mastery of a unique vehicle ability matter more than who

7.2 / 10

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Alaris

A fantasy otome visual novel about a healer drawn into fae politics and forbidden magic, praised near-unanimously across its Early Access run and full release for gorgeous art, distinct routes, and unusually thoughtful character customisation.

8.2 / 10

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Arcadia Cafe Review: A Short, Uncannily Specific Night Shift Horror

Judas Brothers and Rassl.me's VHS-filtered domestic horror puts players behind the counter of a roadside cafe in early-2000s Ukraine, delivering a tense, culturally specific hour or two undercut by an abrupt ending and a frustrating closing chase.

7.2 / 10

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