The last place I expected to find hope for the nightmare year that has been 2025 is in the giant sparkly eyes of a severed pinky. But that's just the kind of world we live in right now.

Ain't we all just a thick block of tofu caught in the narrow door of life?

Hidden in my Paradise is a cozy and cute hand-drawn hidden object game that ends by handing over the reins with a DIY level creator.

With its morbid humor and the constant surprises of randomized repair tasks and new daily gimmicks, Uncle Chop's is endlessly unpredictable.

Congratulations to 1000xRESIST, VGG's 2024 Game of the Year winner — we can't fathom having gone through this year without playing it.

These 10 were bright spots in the world of games, and earned a place on VGG's 2024 Game of the Year nominee list.

Fear the Spotlight is the most comprehensively satisfying horror game I've played in years, with gut-clenching tension and tenderness alike.

The Jackbox Survey Scramble, despite technically being one game and main concept, feels just as full and engaging as a proper Party Pack.

Wild Bastards gave us a new cast of spacefaring outlaws and scoundrels to love.

PAX West's fly-on-the-wall game: We talked with developers Michael Frei and Raphaël Munoz about Time Flies!

Whisper Mountain Outbreak's classic survival horror vibes delivered some of our most tense moments at PAX West.

The Plucky Squire is about how stories are able to inspire others to create, and the impact they have on young hearts and minds.

Ender Magnolia publisher Binary Haze talked to us about the "oppressive and dark, but still beautiful" Metroidvania releasing winter 2025.

It's not the Jackbox Party Pack you break out at Thanksgiving, I'll tell you that.

Catching up with DreadXP, Heartworm, and the team behind this Silent Hill-inspired retro indie horror game.

We played the demo for Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland at PAX a week before the game's release.

The Jackbox Megapicker is available today, and Naughty Pack brings more adult (but surely less mature) comedy to your next Jackbox night.

The laughs come easily in this 2-3 hour "slapformer" where British humor reigns supreme.

The tile-shifting puzzle game Arranger and its heroine on a journey to belong give "sliding into home" a new meaning.

Magical Delicacy's world is like a comforting bowl of soup, although some of its systems seemed at odds with its laid-back, cozy nature.