Father Figures with Ed Helms and Owen Wilson find out on their mother’s wedding day (Glenn Close) that the man they thought was their father,is in fact,not their father.
This sets them off on a road trip to find their real father, Terry Bradshaw, who is actually playing Terry Bradshaw. Maybe. Turns out it could be any number of people.
The premise here isn’t great, but with Helms and Wilson and vast amount of talent here really did pull it all together. That honestly is this movies saving grace. The acting is amazing and everyone involved plays parts that aren’t good well beyond what they should be. There is nothing new here,but the movie is funny and well acted,and that alone makes it worth a quick watch.
Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
Roadside Egg Stand on Steam is an upcoming title from Zozo Studio. They haven’t released much about the game aside from the release date being sometime this year and a short trailer. The basic idea however is that it is a cozy Idle game where you simply raise chickens and run a Roadside Egg Stand. So check out the trailer, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
Cryptical Path on Steam was sent to me by the people at Old Skull Games for which I am very grateful. There are a lot of rogue games out there but this is the first rogue builder I have come across.
Now the game flow is what you would expect, start a run, fight some enemies, collect power-ups and different currency, fight a boss, and hopefully win. When you die start all over again with new abilities, power-ups, and hopefully make some better decisions.
Build a room, any room.
The key difference here is this time around you are the master of the dungeon, someone has simply usurped some control of it. You as the master are back to reclaim it. This allows you to build your route to the boss room. Need a shop? Just build one, need to heal? Feel free to build that as well. It isn’t free for all though. You only have so many crystals to build rooms with and this is where you will need to decide do you fight enemies to gain more crystals and money or not. You can go into the negative, you will just be cursed for doing so.
Also don’t even think about taking the easy way out, because once you hit negative 10 it is a one-way ticket to the boss’s room.
Good luck with this chick your first run
This is one of those games I don’t want to undersell too much, but I also don’t want to undersell it. Suffice it to say, if this ever comes to a console it is a must-buy for me. The game is a 9/10, and you would be doing yourself a disservice by not picking this up for $15 it cost, and with very positive reviews on Steam, I am not alone in this. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel on Steam is a game sent to me by the good folks over at Grindstone and honestly if you are a fan of games like Vampire Survivor and need a new fix, the $10 is well worth the price. The game is played the same way, simply walk around kill monsters, and level up. They do allow you to change the options to give you more in-depth control of when attacks happen, but this is hardly necessary to enjoy or even have a deep run into the game.
Graphically the game is great, and the controls are equally as well done. The story is very basic, you fight to impress the gods and hopefully become the next chosen Jotunnslayer. If we are being the story in these games are always a means to an end to get the slaying going, and that is where the fun is.
Each level will allow you to choose a power-up randomly for either your chosen character or a god. Each god and character has their own skill tree to unlock as well so you can really dig into how you want to play the game. The game is quick to get into, easy to play but hard to master. For its price, this is easily one of the first games I have played this year I am happy to say is a must-buy, 9/10. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
Red Solstice from Ironward is a title they sent to me that I have some mixed feelings about. On the one hand, it functions great, on the other it simply isn’t fun to play. It looks great, but the UI for certain things is honestly kind of terrible and wasn’t translated over very well from a mouse and keyboard as the game was originally made for PC.
As for as the gameplay itself, it is a pretty standard twin-stick shooter that you can play alone or with others. Simply choose a mission, which isn’t always very intuitive at first, enter the map, and mow down a ton of enemies to achieve your objective. Many times optional objectives will also pop up, save civilians, or help other soldiers maintain a position. This usually rewards you with new materials to help upgrade your troops or your base.
That is kind of why the game isn’t all that fun though. It gets very stale very fast, and to make matters worse so much of it is counterintuitive. Recruiting new squad mates solo isn’t easy, but if they get injured enough they can die for good.
The amount of stuff in the ultimate edition is pretty great too as it comes with everything that was ever released for the game as far as I can tell. The price of the game also isn’t bad at all at $30. Personally, I would wait for a sale as the game is only a 6/10 for me but if you are into this sort of game the value and replayability are definitely there. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, which you can play on Gamepass, is a game that was tossed my way by Robot Entertainment to review which I always appreciate. Now I will be honest right out the gate, I never loved or hated this series it just always kind of existed. I had fun with them when I played them but they were never the type of game I felt I NEEDED to play. If you are looking to play this game and see some vast improvement into a AAA title, you will be disappointed.
If what you are looking for, however, is a fun game with better graphics, new weapons, and characters, well-designed levels, and just kill a ton of orcs, you will be happy. The game is pretty standard. Pick a hero, each one with its own passives, power-ups, and weapons, set traps along various paths the orcs will walk along, and protect a certain spot.
As you collect different types of currency after each run you can buy better passives for a character, or use them to buy new traps or boost your main stats that apply to everyone, the game will get a bit easier to manage. You will be able to employ a more varied strategy, and traps might become cheaper or stronger. You can even play solo or with others online.
How you play is up to you,I have tried everything from surrounding the point I am supposed to protect and just defending that ( pro tip, don’t do this) to blocking off entire paths to force them into one area and ignoring the rest ( also don’t do this) and the best method seems to be to funnel them to a few select choke points and setting traps there.
Weather on the maps will change the strategy you need to employ and will even change what enemies show up. Water elementals for example have a tendency to split into pieces. You may even run into a sort of substance that suddenly makes it impossible to put traps on walls.
The game has room for improvement, but I had a lot of fun with it. 7/10, if you like shooters and you have Gamepass you need to at least try it. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
V Rising is one of those games I had my eye on for a while, and recently Stunlock Studios was kind enough to send me a copy when their game hit 5 million sales. The game always looked like a cross between Diablo and Conan Exiles. Just a classic kill-everything and survival game where you have to build your own vampire castle. A small part of me is always worried, however, how good can a game trying to do that much actually be? Even more so when you start tossing RPG elements into it?
The game starts out when you awake from your slumber, after years of hiding away from the humans that rebelled against their undead overlords. You enter a world that you can mostly control the difficulty of. Do you want to play alone? with your friends? Let just any random person enter? These are all things you can control. I recommend getting a feel for the game before you start letting unknown people rampage around your world.
You start out collecting some basic things to build a wall and a coffin to protect you. Be careful, though. While this will keep enemies and such out, the sun will obviously come over the walls and kill you. You can build special fog equipment to block out the sun, but if you don’t, find some shade or stay in bed until the night comes. Going out and hunting,materials, enemies for their blood, and even bosses to gain new abilities is important. This is the main way to progress through the game’s many chapters and how you unlock new things to build. Rushing however can be deadly. New armor and weapons will increase your levels.
The graphics are great. I enjoyed getting lost in the woods and admiring the scenery most of the time. I say most of the time because often, I would forget the world changes as days turn to night and night turns back to day. Once safe places suddenly had a vampire hunter in them that I found myself no match for. Bosses I once beat had migrated to new areas to attack me. While chopping down trees and smashing stones to build a staircase for my castle bandits would be out on patrol and I would find myself having a quick meal instead.
This brings me to the next thing I loved about this game. The ever-changing environment. Enemies go about their days even if you don’t. Animals will seemingly live their lives and stumble across your base, and not all of them are friendly. This extends to your work benches. If you need planks or iron you can just toss materials into your machines and they will produce them until they no longer have the materials. weapons are made at work benches the same way. Simply toss your materials in, tell it what to make and just leave until it is done. I love this quality of life and more games need to make this standard.
Not everything is great however. In fact nothing about it is truly great outside of the fact that it is fun. The story has potential but it never really goes beyond being a great concept. The building is good and you can do a lot with it, there are better builders out there. It also isn’t a great surviving game because while drinking blood helps you heal and in combat you dont really need it to survive. The conbat is good, but its not Diablo level great or deep.
The game is good and it is a lot of fun,I will definetly be adding this to my list of games I keep playing after I review it. It is also a game i encourage friends to pick up and play together. If you want a game that is the best at any one thing, this isn’t it. If you want a game that is good everywhere however, definelty get this one. 8/10, best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
aldera Interactive has unveiled its cozy farming sim / tower defense hybrid The Rabbit Haul, coming to PC and Switch in 2026. As a fleet-footed rabbit, you must nurture your garden by day, then defend it from mischievous raccoons by night.
The Rabbit Haul places players in the role of a cute cottontail trying to rebuild their hometown after it’s been ravaged by greedy raccoon gang the Trash Panda Posse. During the day, you must tend to your crops, replenish your food reserves and economy, water your farm, add harvested produce to your haul, and grow defensive tower plants that will help thwart off invaders. Be strategic in your placement, as an ideal garden will make use of synergies created between harmonious plants.
When you choose to switch over into nighttime, you must defend your haul against the assailing Trash Panda Posse. They’ll grow stronger with each wave, with different enemy types attempting to spoil your riches, so you must upgrade your weapons and defenses to ensure you can survive the night!
No two playthroughs are ever the same, as The Rabbit Haul features a sprawling, randomly generated world full of quests and treasures. Explore the overworld to discover unique items and allies that will help rebuild your town and reinforce your defenses even further. Between runs, you can upgrade your towers, unlock new merchants, and prepare yourself for your next adventure. With an array of unique weapons, upgrade paths, powerful towers and crops to unlock, The Rabbit Haul offers countless playstyles to master!
“With The Rabbit Haul we wanted to combine our love of relaxing cozy games with the strategy of tower defense titles and the random adventure of roguelikes,” said Titus Lo, game designer at Caldera Interactive. “We won the GDC 2024 Pitch competition for it, so it seems like there’s an appetite for The Rabbit Haul, and not just because the crops look tasty – though that helps!”
Every so often comes a movie that is so horrifically bad it circles back around to being good. The story is just bad,the concept is ridiculous,the CGI is so bad we can’t even describe it.
This is one of those movies. I honestly don’t have anything good to say about it. The concept is horrible. It takes place in New Orleans and a series of earthquakes release spiders. Not normal spiders, ancient spiders.
These spiders have evolved to live in lava it seems and breathe fire, because of course they did. They start small, and get a bit bigger and bigger and of course there is a huge one they fight eventually.
This movie was probably made for Syfy channel or something honestly, it’s a true horrible B movie. And everyone should watch this train wreck of a movie. I don’t have anything good to say about it. The acting isn’t great,the spiders look ridiculous and the story has been done to death. It is however fun. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
Leave the World Behind starring Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali is a sort of horror thriller about an unexpected apocalypse. Amanda (Julia) and her family need a vacation and rent out a home for the weekend.
While enjoying the beautiful home there is an unexpected knock at the door, G.H. Scott (Ali) and his daughter talking about a black out in the city. Turns out he owns the house and needs a place to stay.
This leads to some racial tension on both sides. Obviously anyone showing up in the middle of the night would cause anyone to be nervous. This is mistaken by Scotts daughter for being specifically racist in nature from Amanda, which seems to be partly true.
As the movie goes on and things get weirder,animals start to disappear, phones stop working more and more questions start to emerge. What country is causing this? China? Korea? You will find an answer within the movie,not within this blog however.
The acting is very well done. At no point did I feel like these weren’t real people with real fears. The tension and chemistry between everyone is fantastic, Julia and the kids really felt like family and the husband truly felt like a guy that might be up to something. I definitely recommend checking this one out. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
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