Family Gamer Reviewer

Primary game reviewer of Family Gamer Review. A loving father to two children, loving husband and avid gamer. As the primary game reviewer, my responsibilities are to make sure that the game titles that I review that I can provide the most unbiased reviews for parents and guardians out there for the game, subject matter and other items within the game. I provide the honest review for the game, not based on what the game is, but for how this would fit in for the library for the whole family to play.

Pac Man 256 Video

So want to know how it feels to be chased by a glitch with four of your friends? watch our video review on this family friendly multiplayer game.

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Great

Pac Man 256

  Pac Man 256 is a 4 player co-op multiplayer game designed with one thing in mind, survive! General Gameplay The gameplay is simple, chomp dots on the board, eat some fruit and power pellets to get the ghost monsters, you know the same formula for the past 35 years, well there is also a twist.  You only have one life, some power ups that you can use to help you, and also a “glitch”, yes a “g...[Read More]

Pokémon Go and how to play this safely with others and with your love ones.

Pokémon Go is one of the hottest games out there in the mobile market.  With 52% of men and women of the ages of 12-34 are playing this game every day and over 23 million daily active users this is the app that everyone is playing, so why is there a concern for this game and for gaming families? Well for starters that the game itself has to be played on the smart phone or device, also it involves ...[Read More]

Micro Transactions, Know what is going on before it breaks your wallet.

Micro transactions have been around since the mid-1990s; back then they were called shareware.  From there, they took a backseat to DLC (downloadable content) for gaming, but in the last 7 years micro transactions have re-arisen in the game and app industry.  People have said in the past that in-game/app purchases will ruin the industry, but it’s a matter of perspective. From the standpoint of a p...[Read More]

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Good

Tumblestone

Tumblestone is a top down puzzle game that involves matching 3 of the same color/shapes in order to progress through the levels. General Gameplay The gameplay has a top down view in which you have to match three of the same item to clear it off the board.  During the process if you clear out the wrong pieces and cannot reach the other ones then you have to redo the level over. A puzzle style game ...[Read More]

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Great

Fragments of Him

Fragments of Him is a beautiful story of life, love and death.  It shows what happens to love ones after someone close to them dies. General Gameplay The game to its heart is a story driven game.  There is not much other than interaction and some dialog choices to make (which does not affect the game outcome).  Mostly just general interaction with the environment to get the game story moving, howe...[Read More]

Fragments of Him Videos

So how do we deal with death? and what does it do to the ones that we love? Well watch our review of Fragments of Him and find out.  

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Good

Pang Adventures

Pang Adventure (Or Buster Bros as it was known in the 1990’s) is a game from the beloved 90’s series of two brothers that go on a 2D style of action, adventure, in which they have to stop an invasion and pop the invaders balloons in the process. General Gameplay The gameplay is very simple, just pop the balls.  This style of gameplay was popular in the arcades in the 1990’s and on the home console...[Read More]

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Bad

Tetraminos

  Tetraminos is a “Tetris” style of game that gives it a multiplayer mode and some new shapes, but the game is still a Tetris game in the end. General Gameplay Well, it’s Tetris, and it is a Tetris game that does have a 4 player multiplayer that is both online and offline as well.  The game is broken down to challenges, puzzle solving and an endless mode.  The modes itself are the same as oth...[Read More]

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Poor

Dangerous Golf

  Dangerous Golf is a new take in an old game where you hit the gold ball and instead of getting into the hold, you try to do as much damage as you can to rack up points to get medals and the highest score. General Gameplay The gameplay is simple, hit the golf ball into as many objects that you can break and then try to break more objects to get a bonus score.  It is in essence a miniature go...[Read More]

Gone Home Videos

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Gone Home

Gone Home is an action-adventure game in which is a take back of the classic “point and click” style of game.  It is a story of Kaitlin coming home and finding out that her sister Samantha that was supposed to pick her up was not there and the mystery of why she was not there. General Gameplay The gameplay is around exploration and this is where the controls are right.  There is a home, a big home...[Read More]

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