I waited for this game like a kid waits for a parcel. I had discovered it at the Asmodays, I clicked with it right away, and Repos Production sent it over in the wake of that. Except the parcel landed smack in the middle of a Bpost strike, and I spent more than a month chewing my nails. Suffice to say that by the time I opened the box, I was already well and truly won over. The good news is that Spooky Tower delivered on every promise. Since then, I have had my mother, in her sixties, give it...

The call of the virtual garden I pulled Pergola out of its packaging on a rainy Sunday, secretly hoping to finally succeed at something involving plants. In real life, you see, I'm what you might politely call a "serial plant killer." My last cactus died from insufficient watering (managing to kill a desert plant through neglect is quite a talent), and my attempt with a pothos (supposedly indestructible) ended up as a sad brownish skeleton. Fortunately, my partner, my child, and our pets are...