In Vol. 24, I discuss As Dusk Falls (Xbox’s only notable 2022 exclusive), highlight a Game Pass hidden gem, and rip into Ryan Reynolds.
Browsing: Backlog
Summer is always slow for game releases, giving us plenty of time to catch up on the old backlog. Enter the 2022 summer backlog challenge.
It’s 2021, and somehow people still haven’t played Lucas Pope’s indie gem Return of the Obra Dinn. Let’s change that today.
As the world starts to rebound from a challenging year and change, here are ten backlog games that helped me get through quarantine.
In a year as life-altering as 2020, I’d like to look back on it through a fonder lens: the games I played to keep myself sane.
We Were Here is a two-player game series centered around co-operative puzzle solving. Read our retrospective to learn why the series is worth your time.
Welcome back to Punished Chat. In this edition, I spoke with The Punished Backlog founder David Silbert to discuss the difficulties trying to manage our gaming backlog, how writing about games has changed how we play and what we play, and how there are too many damn RPGs we’ll never finish.
You wouldn’t expect to see many AAA blockbusters in a backlog. However, when I took a look at my own growing piles (plural) of backlog titles, I came to a startling realization: I have a ridiculous number of AAA games I haven’t finished.
Welcome to Punished Notes, a series of (not really) weekly articles outlining many of my random thoughts on games I’ve been playing, reading about, or even watching on YouTube or Twitch. This week, I dive…
The Dark Tower, based on the acclaimed fantasy books by Stephen King, recently hit theaters to poor reception. In honor of the original series, I’ve provided my thoughts on the very first book of the Dark Tower saga, The Gunslinger.