Bigger, But Not Better: A Super Seducer 2 Review

Bigger, But Not Better: A Super Seducer 2 Review

Sidequest was provided with a copy of Super Seducer 2: Advanced Seduction Tactics for PC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Content warning: this review will discuss misogynistic elements, racism, and contains images that are sexual in nature. This piece also contains spoilers for the game. (more…)

Mystic Messenger Trash: Gals Being Pals in Jaehee’s Route

Mystic Messenger Trash: Gals Being Pals in Jaehee’s Route

Welcome back to Mystic Messenger Trash, a gaming diary that chronicles my experience playing Mystic Messenger for the first time. The following contains spoilers for Jaehee’s good route of the game (and one of her bad endings).

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Review: Monster Prom is a Fun and Charming, but Flawed Date

Review: Monster Prom is a Fun and Charming, but Flawed Date

Sidequest has had its proverbial eye on Monster Prom for some time. It was a huge hit with our PAX West team of 2017, it was the first game we streamed as a newly launched site, and it’s been something we returned to again and again in eager anticipation of its full release.

Once we got around to playing the whole thing, we decided to sit down and have a conversation about what works for us, what concerns us, and what we’d like to see in the future.

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Hardcoded For Success: A Chat With Kenzie Wintermelon

It’s not a secret that finding representation for marginalized communities can be difficult, and that’s as true for video games as it is for anywhere else. So, when I stumbled on Kenzie Wintermelon’s game Hardcoded through her art blog, I was immediately taken; here is a game starring a trans woman who dates trans women, told from the perspective of one. It provides a layer of authenticity to the experience that AAA games generally lack, should they bother to include such representation at all.

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