#JakeReviewsItch by Rating

Every 1/5 review for #JakeReviewsItch, roughly sorted from best to worst. I'm not overthinking that, and you shouldn't, either. You can also sort by name or genre.

See this month's ranking, or check out other reviews by score: 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5

🧡🤍🤍🤍🤍 1,000 Heads Among the Trees An Outcry, prologue The Alabaster Donut Farm A Magical Tale: Cavern Crawler ACIDTRIP as long as we’re together: magical girls sweet & pure A NIGHTMARE'S TRIP Above: The Fallen Adventure for a Bit The Archives of Evil Dr BA Anomalies A Lullaby of Colors 6 pack of craft games A e r o c r a f t

March 2023 Game Awards

#JakeReviewsItch Game of the Month Archives

You know how this works: Every day, I review an Itch.io game, and on the first day of each month, I give prestigious awards to the previous month's games. There is no reason we need to acknowledge that I've been on hiatus for more than two weeks. We can just pretend that everything is normal. This month's award categories come courtesy of Steve Kim, whose Tweet was the first hit when I Googled, "1 like = 1 game". Thanks, Steve! He also has a long-abandoned Tumblog, which is pretty fun if you want some silly goofs about things that were happening on Giant Bomb 5+ years ago.

Week In Review - 3/26/23

#JakeReviewsItch Week In Review Archives

This week's reviews:

🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 Angry Video Game Nerd I&II Deluxe 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 Animal Lover 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 Annwn: the Otherworld 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 Anodyne 🧡🤍🤍🤍🤍 Anomalies 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story

Hoo. Remember the days when half the "games" I reviewed were junky, half-finished projects, thrown together at weekend game jams? This week's line-up was big and involved, which is why this seems like an appropriate time to discuss burnout. We'll also look at exciting game news and reporting that came from other writers this week. But first, make some time for our...

Game of the Week

This week saw two new games rank among this site's top five. One is a powerful empathy-generator, a game with an important message and the power to change lives. The other is a Mega Man-like with poop jokes.

Game of the Month Archive

On the first of each month, I take an existing publication's award categories and repurpose them to look back at all the game's I've reviewed over the previous month. It's more complicated to explain than it is to understand.

Mar. 2023 Award Format: "1 LIKE = 1 VIDEO GAME ANSWER" via @fobwashed Game of the Month: Anarcute

Feb. 2023 Award Format: Game Informer's Best and Brightest of 2022 Game of the Month: a new life.

Jan. 2023 Award format: 2001 Nintendo Power Awards Game of the Month: 10s

February 2023 Game Awards

#JakeReviewsItch Game of the Month Archives

Like a lion, March is here, and that means it's time to celebrate Itch.io games I reviewed in February using award categories stolen from another publication. As is tradition. This month, our template comes from the latest issue of Game Informer (Vol. XXXIII / No. 2 / Issue 353; Resident Evil 4 remake on the cover), mostly because I idly flipped open a copy last week and landed on the "Best Dork" category.

2/5/23 - Week In Review

#JakeReviewsItch Week In Review Archives

This week's reviews:

🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 A Game of Changes 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 A Hole New World 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 A Kishoutenketsu in the countryside 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 A Light Long Gone 🧡🤍🤍🤍🤍 A Lullaby of Colors 🧡🤍🤍🤍🤍 A Magical Tale: Cavern Crawler

Game of the Week:

People think designing video games is hard. It's not hard. Just follow the recipe: A jumps; B shoots.

January 2023 Game Awards

#JakeReviewsItch Game of the Month Archives

Around here, the start of a new month brings an important tradition that I'm making up right now: Stealing game award categories from old magazines or Web sites, and then giving those awards to the Itch.io games I reviewed over the last month. I think it's going to be a very hot feature.

This month's plagiarism is brought to you by the 2001 Nintendo Power Awards (minus platform-specific categories like "Best Nintendo GameCube Graphics"), found in volume 156, pages 116-123.

1/15/23 - Week In Review

#JakeReviewsItch Week In Review Archives

This week’s reviews: 🧡🤍🤍🤍🤍 6 pack of craft games 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 8 Bit Space (ZX Spectrum Inspired Platformer) 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 9 Till Void 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 10 Flights of Ballooning 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 10 in 1 game-a-week bundle! 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 10mg: Sealed Estate 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 10mg: SNAAAK

Game of the Week

I spent most of the week feeling confident that 9 Till Void wouldn't be topped, and then this sneaky little fellow wriggled into my heart.