Cav's Place

Not that it really counts as a game, but I wanted to add one more item to the list for 2025, so I went through this… And I must say that it didn’t quite feel like Gothic, and that’s definitely not just because of the updated graphics. Sure, I played that 21 years ago, but […]

The news that GOG.com was purchased by one of its founders sure came out of nowhere, but after the initial “well, shit” reaction when I started reading the title, knowing what almost always happens after such purchases, I strangely find myself cautiously optimistic. I mean, GOG.com has given up its original principles long ago, or […]

I expected Dungeons of Dreadrock to be a nice little puzzle game that I’ll be able to finish quickly, but after reading some reviews I had some concerns about the action elements, the required timing and reflexes, since even the hint system wasn’t going to help with that, and I also wondered whether I could […]

The first words that came to mind when I was trying to characterize Lost Words: Beyond the Page were nice and sweet. But I can’t really use those. In part because they’re too simple, too plain, but mainly because they’re inaccurate, potentially leading to wrong expectations about what will happen and how it’s likely to […]

Not that the effects and connections don’t go much wider, but since this is what this particular instance affects, I’m sure that at least everyone with any interest in gaming is by now very much aware of what’s been going on for the past couple of weeks, when a campaign led by an Australian activist […]