Do you like open-world cities? Do you like big, PS1-era open-world cities? Do you like big, PS1-era open-world cities rendered almost entirely in greyscale? Germs: Nerawareta Machi has your weirdly…

It’s time to gather trash with the help of an invasive species. This time, as efficiently as possible. Also there’s also a dog. That’s all you need to know. It’s Pikmin 4, t…

The horror of food service continues, this time in Turkey. Tostchu has you stewing in the dark and creepy atmosphere while serving pressed sandwiches. Can you cooking skills save you?

Be careful what you wish for. I wished for a multiplayer offshoot of Happy’s Humble Burger Farm. That was before I completely lost my taste for online horror games. Fortunately, that’s …

It’s like Goldeneye never left us! Sort of. Agent 64: Spies Never Die wears the skin of Rare’s venerable N64 classic, but that leaves it some big shoes to fill. Can any game hope to eve…

You hungry for hot dogs? Meat Grinder is a horror game centered around digging up graves and turning those corpses into tube meat. And no one would know the difference. Are you hungry for hot dogs …

Across the 15-hour or so adventure, you’ll uncover the truth of these hidden isles, fight an increasingly eclectic collection of bizarre Salmonids, and tackle the biggest enemy of them all: a creep…

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Sally and her sidekick, Detective Grimoire, are back for another adventure. But can Adam Vian and SFB Games deliver yet another narrative success? Yes, they can. That’s not very surprising.

Get ready for some grand theme songs belted out against a backdrop of robot carnage. Geppy-X reaches into the 70s to pluck out a fond parody. Now you don’t need four discs to fit all that ani…

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Welcome! You might not expect a racing game centred entirely around a Volkswagen New Beetle could possibly be good. After all, it’s never worked for any other brand of car. And yet, the devel…

Something horrifying lurks beneath the toe-tapping charm of Rhythm Heaven Groove. You might not notice it at first, but it’s there, living beneath its scalp.

It’s time to make a pilgrimage back to 1994 to see where FromSoftware started off. Long before Demon’s Souls there was King’s Field, a dungeon crawler about exploring a very stran…

It’s not Star Fox Zero. 7/10 Zalno, will you please do the actual review? Here we go again. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, EH FOX? Seriously reader, why are you here? If you haven’t picked up …

Time to hit the road for another game trying to capture the feeling of a road trip. Have I finally found the perfect one? Not yet. At least, the prototype of Ithaca doesn’t suggest so.

Rescued from the site-that-must-not-be-mentioned, we have an interview with TheCatamites, the fevered mind behind Anthology of the Killer. This was a special edition newsletter that is now inaccess…

Medal of Honor had humble enough beginnings, but it was the flash point for the entire WW2 subgenre of FPS. Anyone who lived through the aughts remembers that there was a new one about every two we…

R The Goonies actually “good enough.” More importantly R The Goonies 2 good enough? Most importantly, R this review of the Goonies 2 good enough? Gosh, I hope you get the reference I&#8…

I can smell that fresh vinyl already. Wax Heads puts you behind the counter at a record shop. Can you make the recommendations? Can you handle the drama? Can you rise above? Probably! It’s no…

What is the most iconic sound of summer? And what sort of Crab Meat do you want to eat? We know you come to Maximum Utcast for only the most serious discussions, so we address those topics and more…

“Iron clad strategies for a trying, rad battle” Mina the Hollower is shockingly non-linear, with a huge, detailed world to explore and challenging surprises around every turn. One of those challeng…

Sometimes you just want to crawl into a hole, and that’s what MOLE is all about. Except it’s a spooky hole. One that talks to people and makes them feel bad things. Navigate your giant …

What happens when you take four very arcade games away from the arcade? You get a compilation of ports of four very arcade games. Operation: Wolf, Operation: Thunderbolt, Night Striker, and Space G…

As my son’s obsession with all things space and planets continues to grow, I keep my eye open for games that might allow him to explore what he loves even deeper. Astronook caught my attention beca…

What is real? Are the memories you make attending a summer camp real or are they implanted in your mind by a Hollywood movie? Did you write the news or did the news write you? Have you ever been in…

R-Type is a series with remarkable consistency. You can ask a group of fans what their favourite title is and almost every entry will be represented. For me, it’s R-Type III: The Third Lightning, b…

When news about Star Fox for the Switch 2 dropped, I immediately messaged Zoey and told her I was going to review it when it drops later this year. But if I’m gonna do a review of the game ju…

Ooo, Star Fox 64. A landmark title for the N64. There’s a reason that Nintendo keeps going back to remake it for newer consoles. Actually, there are numerous reasons, but most strikingly, it&…

In case you haven’t been keeping track, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen has been hustling for the past few weeks to buy eBay, the online action site. It makes sense on paper for the two companies to merge,…

Last year, I found myself in a bit of a reading frenzy with books about shops, stores, cafes, and similar neighborhood establishments. I devoured the likes of Robert Seethaler’s The Cafe with no Na…

On this freeform episode of the Maximum Utcast, our hosts are joined by no guests but we weave through run and gun games like Metal Slug, beat ’em ups like Double Dragon, and driving games li…

I recently had a conversation with Atari’s Director of Sales and Marketing, David Lowey. Before long, we got into the subject of Atari’s re-entry into hardware and cartridge production. As the Atar…

Mixing driving with lightguns is so obvious it’s surprising that Lucky & Wild is one of the few full-body arcade games to do it. But did it do the concept justice or squander its amazing…

I hate admitting that I haven’t heard of a game before, but I can’t claim to have known of King of Demons (known as Majyūō in its homeland). To be fair, it was previously only released in Japan on …

Has it really been ten years? A whole decade since the last Star Fox game was inflicted upon the masses. I’ve seen people on social media actually celebrating the 10th anniversary of that gam…

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The Bubble Bobble lore is hard to follow. Bub and Bob keep going from bubble-spewing dinosaurs to rotund children and back again, but maybe it’s also their kids, or maybe it’s their girlfriends. So…

Sometimes mutation is the sincerest form of flattery. If something doesn’t inspire some sort of expansion or iteration, chances are it wasn’t that interesting to begin with. This ability to r…

After a big resurgence in the ‘90s, the arcade industry was in sharp decline in the early ‘00s with new games slowing to a trickle, largely due to the home console market catching up in terms of po…

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In a recorded conversation with Maximum Utmost’s own Jonathan “Tatsumaki Senpukyaku” Holmes, Edmund McMillen, designer of games such as Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac, has confirmed that Mewge…

One of the best games of 2024 has arrived on console, and that means there’s nowhere you’re safe. Learn why this collection of 9 short horror games is so fantastic, and then put it on y…