Shio to Ayakashi no Mori – A bit tedious, but not bad.

Shio to Ayakashi no Mori (Shio and the Mysterious Forest) is a dungeon exploration game from my favorite indie developers, Inu to Neko. Normally I portion out their Ishwald games here and there instead of playing them back to back, but shortly after I posted about Rakunou Princess, a power outage destroyed my save progress […]

Rakunou Princess – Tons of fun, but not really about ranching

Rakunou Princess is a ranch simulation game from Inutoneko, a Japanese indie game developer whose works I’ve been following for many years (since 2010, actually). They experimented briefly with releasing some of their games in English on Steam (Dungeon Shoujo, Witch Ring Meister, etc.) but the translations were bad, the games became bug-riddled and I […]

Games I dropped very quickly in 2019

I know I said there would be no edition of “Games that didn’t work out” for 2019, but right after dropping Fate/Extra, I remembered a few other things I didn’t play much of last year. Fate/Extra (PSP) – It seems to be for fans of the Fate series only. For me, there was too much […]

Nono’s Magic General Shop review – Not bad but there are many better

Nono’s Magic General Shop is a shop simulation game from inutoneko, a Japanese indie game maker known for simulation games. I’ve been a fan of theirs since I discovered Lemuore no Renkinjutsushi in 2010, and have made it my mission to try all their games eventually. I had been working through their library at a […]

Dungeon Shoujo – Finished. Not that exciting

Dungeon Shoujo / Dungeon Girl,  is yet another game from Japanese indie developer inutoneko. It was released before both Soul Smith of the Kingdom and Witch Ring Meister, but I skipped it earlier because mentally I couldn’t reconcile the dungeon exploration setting with the puzzle gameplay. If it’s a dungeon crawler then I want to […]