As the game progresses, the puzzles get more complex and require more advanced solutions. It feels like a rapid-fire escape room game where every move could lead to your death.

Yumeiri pulls no punches as it slugs you again and again with the cruelties of our real world.

If you've ever wanted to get into STGs but were intimidated by the sheer difficulty, I highly encourage you to look into Missile Dancer 2 and the rest of Terarin's games as great points of entry.

Toroidal: Awaiting the Spring is highly satisfying, with each element a wonderful experience on their own, and even stronger linked together as part of a larger overarching game

Starting the game is like opening an explosive zine. The player is immediately confronted with an intense rush of hand-drawn illustrations, striking collages cut out of newspapers and photographs.

Rumia Throws is truly a game that shows off the power of doujin games, inheriting the long and storied history of games that came before and evolving it in new and amusing ways.

Playing Five Years Old Memories feels like flipping through your friend's childhood drawings and photos as they explain to you what was going on in that little snapshot of their personal history.

I love getting sucked deep into the many layered mechanics, and cannot get over how intuitive the stone-connecting mechanic feels to play.

DriveCrazy has impeccable timing with its explosions and set pieces, and feels so much like being the protagonist of an edge-of-your-seat action movie.

MOTION●REC is a great throwback to those days of pushing big clicky buttons and scanning through squealing audio tape.