Top 25 Reviewer Member since November 21, 2010 Last visited November 1, 2025 Profile ID (TUID): jxjn9bqsk8khe5bw
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I've been here since I was in college, so if anything I wrote 10+ years ago sounds dumb, that's why.
I give out 5-star ratings mostly to my favorite 2-3 games of the year, and the difference between a 4-star rating and a 5-star rating from me often isn't one of craft but of whether a game has the certain je ne sais quoi that makes me a little insane about it.
Winter-Over, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2024) (30 ratings) Pickering Station, Antarctica: A place of science, knowledge, and deep isolation. When the last plane leaves for the winter, you and your colleagues may as well be on Mars. At least this...
Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2021) (25 ratings) Navigate fraught social situations by day and pull off heists by night as Lady Thalia, the not-actually-aristocratic thief bent on making a mockery of British high society.
Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2025) (14 ratings) Former gentlewoman thief Lady Thalia has given up her life of crime to join the detective agency of her greatest rival, Margaret “Melpomene” Williams. The life of a private detective turns out...
Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2023) (13 ratings) Lady Thalia is back in London and back to her old tricks, putting up with Britain’s social elite by day so she can steal from them by night. But that doesn’t mean things are easy, what with her...
Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2022) (11 ratings) Everyone who’s anyone summers in France - which means master thief Lady Thalia is there too, attending garden parties by day and stealing masterpieces by night. Unfortunately, this holiday is...
"*OVER* is a long, sprawling game about a large family at what is obviously Disney World, although it is carefully not named, in the..." - See the full review
"This story takes place in a world where magic-users make pacts with demons to do their bidding. The protagonist, Finnit, has a natural..." - See the full review
"3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS takes place in an over-the-top dystopian future in which sex has been so thoroughly banned that any amount of..." - See the full review
"I have to start this review with a confession: according to IFDB, I did play this game’s predecessor, A Matter of Heist Urgency, but..." - See the full review
"Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata? is the third in a series of games starring Bubble Gumshoe, a detective searching for what justice she can..." - See the full review
