Review: Above the Snow
Look, I'm not complaining, I know many people would be thrilled to live somewhere warmer, but I live in a climate which, if I'm entirely honest, somewhat disagrees with my Scottish blood? Pasty skin? Predisposition for basement-dwelling? More on basement-dwelling in a little bit, as it happens, but whatever you want to call it, there is a part of me that finds myself longing for colder weather, particularly as it starts to get warmer and warmer. There will be days in the coming months where there'll be some oppressive heat and I will wish I could be far away in some snowy alpine lodge but, given that that's probably pretty unlikely, I might have to make do with escaping there some other way. Enter Above the Snow from developer Above the Desk which might just provide a little bit of that alpine magic from the comfort of my own desk… just as long as I pump up the air conditioning.
Review: Digseum
For someone who has played a fair few incremental games over the years, I have a confession to make: I somewhat despise the genre. What starts as a dopamine-inducing rush to hit each fresh milestone quickly descends into a part-time job that demands your attention for quarter of an hour each evening, until you question what it is you’re actually doing, fight against the sunk cost fallacy, and abandon it altogether. That is, until a shiny new idler turns your head, and the process starts all over again. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to enjoy that initial rush, without having to commit to it for the foreseeable future, all in the name of incremental progress?