Top 25 Reviewer Member since November 21, 2010 Last visited July 30, 2026 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) (35 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) (30 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) (17 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 Rose of Rocroi, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2022) (16 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...
Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier (2023) (15 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...
"A Murder in Fairyland is a mystery game in which you play as a sorceress who gets stuck in Fairyland when the titular murder, of a..." - See the full review
"The conceit of Messages from the Universe Graveyard is that it takes place in a defunct MMO, still accessible but no longer being..." - See the full review
Pageant, by Autumn Chen July 1, 2026 (edited: July 2, 2026)
"Pageant follows Qiuyi Karen Zhao, a Chinese American teenager deep in the grind of trying to look good on college applications. She's..." - See the full review
"Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917 starts with a quote from Kropotkin that states that individuals have almost no power to change the..." - See the full review
"Amateur sleuth Miss Gosling has been murdered, and the incompetent police are looking in all the wrong places--so it's up to the ghostly..." - See the full review
