Mewgenics is a game that completely exceeded my expectations, and that’s saying something because the pre-release hype had me pretty pumped. By that I mean I consumed every single video that the game’s creators, Edmund McMillan and Tyler Gael put out as I impatiently waited for the game to release.
I guess I should start with this. Is Gloomhaven 2e an improvement over the original? Yes, oh my yes. It’s such an improvement that it makes the original Gloomhaven look like complete trash by comparison. Cephlaofair took the improvements from Frosthaven, as well as everything they learned about designing it, and then rebuilt Gloomhaven with it.
Arc Raiders isn’t merely an extraction shooter. It’s an extraction shooter that is so perfectly well-made that it offers some of the most emergent gameplay moments and organic storytelling that I’ve ever seen. I’ve always said that the best stories a game can tell are the ones that are organically told through gameplay, and every day that I play Arc Raiders, I have stories to tell.
Dead by Daylight is a 9-year-old asymmetrical multiplayer game that is still going strong in 2025. I intentionally ignored the game for the longest time. I’m not a horror fan, be it movies or video games, and I tend to shy away from things that are creepy or gore-filled. That meant the entire concept always gave me the ick, and I just wrote it off.
That was a mistake. A friend recently got me to try it, and there’s a lot going on with this game that makes it really special. To be fair, Dead by Daylight has had 9 years of refinements, but I want to talk about some key things that I think really make it a great game that’s worth playing, even now.