Be Missed and Remembered: The Letter from Mayoiga (Koi Shikaru-beki ~Mayoiga kara no Tegami~) is a 2026 visual novel by NekoNeko Soft, one of the older developers in the world of visual novels. It is penned by Tomo Kataoka, famed for classic visual novels like narcissu, and published by Overlap Games. It is a tale […]
Back at the very beginning of 2024, the very first title I wrote a review for NookGaming was an indie action-platformer named Tevi. The long and short of it for me is that as an action-platformer combining Metroidvania-style exploration, a dynamic 2D combat system, and enemies with bullet hell-themed attacks, Tevi makes for an incredible […]
Mario’s dinosaur pal Yoshi has been making platforming outings for more than three decades at this point. The Yoshi spinoffs have been something of a proving ground for inventive platforming ideas ever since he got his first starring gig in the mid-1990’s, with all manner of colorful and striking experiences along the way. That all […]
After more than a decade of developing DLC and various spinoffs for their seminal 2D modern classic Shovel Knight, Yacht Club Games has finally released their next adventure: Mina the Hollower. Though we are now burrowing through the ground instead of simply digging this time, this title takes the form of a top-down action-adventure game with […]
Welcome to Cafe Lumière! ~A Dragon Girl Concept Cafe~ (aka Dora-con Cafe) is a short little slice-of-life type visual novel about a cafe with dragon girls. Yep, it pretty much tells you what to expect from it based on the title. There’s already plenty of titles about cafes featuring catgirls, grim reapers, and the like, so why not dragon […]
07th Expansion made quite a name for themselves thanks to the immense success of the When they Cry series (particularly with Higurashi and Umineko) back in the 2000s. However, Rose Gun Days, their first work to not feature the words “no Naku Koro ni” in the title, remained something of a comparatively obscure curiosity internationally, […]
As the latest platformer (at the time of writing) starring the most famous platforming plumber there is, Super Mario Bros. Wonder was fated to get an enhanced rerelease on Nintendo’s improved Switch 2 console. This updated release is an even more jam-packed version of what was already a pretty dense game. Time to visit the […]
The first new Pokémon game exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2 is finally here. And while we have to wait a bit longer for Generation 10’s set of RPG adventures, Game Freak have collaborated with Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force team to bring us a bit of a different kind of Pokémon adventure: Pokémon Pokopia. Much […]
Indie gaming has grown to cover a pretty wide variety of gaming genres in the last decade. One such style I’ve noticed has been scarcely represented in the indie game world though is that of the 3D combat-heavy action game, often called the “character action” game. Which leads us to today’s topic, a title exploring […]
Death Match Love Comedy! (often shortened to DMLC!) is a visual novel by Kemco originally released all the way back in 2013. Billed as sort of antithetical to many visual novels, the story involves a mysterious phenomenon cursing a young boy not long after enrolling at a new school to prevent him from finding love. […]