by Alon Lessel | Jul 8, 2017 | 70s, Full Reviews, Reviews
Hilarious Pun Here A few years back, when retro indie game development moved from aping the 8-bit style to trying to recapture the more demanding look of the SNES era, a terrifying thought crossed the minds of every person who lived through the 1990s: dear god, what...
by Alon Lessel | May 28, 2017 | 40s, Full Reviews, Reviews
No Darkness, No Soul While even the worst games in FromSoftware’s Souls series are pretty good, it would be an understatement to say that most of them are not technical masterpieces. These game were meticulously planned, down to the last detail, to work under very...
by Alon Lessel | May 15, 2017 | Reviews
We were never going to have a review for The Surge ready on embargo. While all of us here at Steam Shovelers do our best to tell you about as many great (and not so great) games as possible, we are still a small site with limited resources. Even in the best of times,...
by Alon Lessel | May 13, 2017 | 70s, Full Reviews, Reviews
Couldn’t Get Hooked If you still haven’t gotten around to watching Flinthook’s intro, I highly recommend you do so now. It’s a beautiful piece of sprite art, a cinematic that will remind the older among you of some of the best 90s cartoons, and which perfectly sets...
by Alon Lessel | Apr 24, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
GOODD: Jizz In My Pants At one point in my last run of GRIDD: Retroenhanced before starting work on this review, I was on top of the world. My weapons were fully upgraded, my shields were up, and my score was rocketing sky-high. I was on a roll. Then a meteor shower...
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