It's always clear what numbers you're about to produce, and what numbers are going to come out of the enemy in response. It's like two competing judging panels at the Olympic figure-skating event.

Mewgenics has wormed its way into the position of the after-work casual "me time" game, and I'm not yet inclined to break out the deworming tablets

Divekick – a spoof fighting game where the only move is divekicks.

The lesson here is that, while you might have fun along the way, it's ultimately more fulfilling to give a ♥♥♥♥; that's as true for everyday life as it is for bathroom visits at three in the morning.

I never stopped feeling that fiery urge to stuff my fingers back into the slits and resume frigging the living daylights out of this mountain, and the ending very much paid it all of.

Would you jump off a bridge because Thousand-Year Door did it, Escape from Ever After? "Sorry, I can't hear you, Yahtz; I'm in the middle of jumping off this bridge."

Long periods of dull, if weirdly comforting, mundanity broken up by occasional reminders of why we're putting up with it, like a water slide connecting two floors of a DMV office.

7th Best of 2025: A quirky job simulator set in a superhero universe. I do love the juxtaposition of the mundane and the fantastical; it's like salted caramel, or choking yourself while jerking off.

It was sold to me as a mix of Pac-Man, Super Hot, and Vampire Survivors. And that's a delightfully eclectic little social group we've gathered in this particular hot tub.

The small room-by-room Binding of Isaac format delivers little snacky fights in manageable, bite-sized pieces. It’s just generally nice. It’s the little roglike twinstick shooter that could.