The Shadows of Pygmalion

What is it to be a puppet? To be a marionette, one’s every motion the mere aftereffect of the twitch of a god’s finger on a set of strings? To…

Café 0 ~ The Sleeping Beast ~

Café 0 ~ The Sleeping Beast ~ is the second game of the Café 0 series – The first one being Café 0 ~ The Drowned Mermaid ~ – developed…

Himawari – The Sunflower –

Himawari is the little doujin that could, making a big name for itself in Japan with such a small budget and development team. And with how ambitious it is, it’s easy…

11eyes: Sin, Damnation, and the Atonement Girl

11eyes is a classic chuunige, a game focused on people gifted with supernatural powers and thrown into violent combat against otherworldly enemies. The action generally takes place in an alternate dimension,…

Steins;Gate 0, A Second Opinion

Succeeding a great work is a tricky business, as works that attempt to do so are bounded by expectations: expectations of greatness, expectations of maintaining the status quo, expectations for…

Dialogue: A Writer’s Story

There are quite a few myths of the writer – there’s the myth of the lone genius, who spends all his time cooking up ideas at home and never speaks…

Demetrios – The BIG Cynical Adventure

Someone forgot to tell COWCAT Games that point-and-click adventure games are dead. Thank goodness for that.

Enigma:

Enigma is the first game by Uzumeya, released back in 2014, but just released on Steam, and oh boy, is it a ride. If there’s one thing I noted about…

Memory’s Dogma CODE:01

It’s a rare compliment to say that a game is more than the sum of its parts. Unfortunately, when I finished it, I felt like Memory’s Dogma might actually have…

Ace Academy

One of the best parts about playing a Visual Novel is that they are very powerful: powerful enough to shake up perspectives and powerful enough to give you an impression…