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 […]

Suffering from gamer’s block

Gamer’s block is when you have a lot of games on your backlog but you don’t feel like playing any of them. And at the same time, nothing new is attracting you. And yet you don’t want to quit playing games either. Last time I experienced this, I solved it through “No Game November,” which […]

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 […]

Witch Ring Meister – Finished! It was fun

Witch Ring Meister is yet another simulation game from inutoneko, the Japanese indie developer I’ve been following for years. My last post was about Soul Smith of the Kingdom, another of their games. Normally I like to let time pass between games in the same series/genre. Unfortunately I’m going through a gaming rut right now […]