PC

Is Syndicate a bizarre curio or a straight-laced classic? (Plot twist: it’s both, a trench coat of industrial-grade nihilism worn over razor-sharp design that still slices through 2025’s ocean of open-world busywork.) Criminally underrated or secretly overrated?, Yes, depending on whether your first contact was a pack of pirated floppies in ’93 (underrated revelation) or […]

Is Gateway 2: Homeworld the brilliant sci-fi banquet everyone forgot to RSVP to, or the crusty Tupperware lingering in interactive fiction’s communal fridge (complete with a passive-aggressive sticky note: “DO NOT microwave, Heechee radiation hazard!”)? Does it deserve an honored seat at the high table of early-’90 s adventure design, or is it wobbling atop an IKEA footstool

Is Strike Commander a bizarre one-off or a straight-laced classic? (Trick question: it’s somehow both, wearing a leather flight jacket over a three-piece business suit.) Is it chronically underrated or secretly overrated?, Yes, in alternate frames of the same animation. And is it essential or eminently skippable in an era when your Steam library bulges

Is Return to Zork a bizarre detour or a textbook classic? (Trick question: it’s a pork barrel full of both, equal parts vintage Infocom whimsy and early-’90s multimedia hubris, like strapping a jet engine to a typewriter just to ask, “Paper jam?”) Underrated or overrated?, Yes, simultaneously, depending on whether your first encounter came via a free AOL demo

Is X-Wing the stuffy flight simulator that just happens to wear a Jedi robe, or is it a full-throttle power fantasy that cannon-balls straight through the Death Star exhaust port? (Don’t play coy, we already know the correct answer is “yes to both… and crank the John Williams to 11.”) When LucasArts unleashed the game on DOS in