Arielle Pieterse

5 days ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

Look, no one’s clutching their pearls in shock when I say I play a lot of point-and-click games. So many, in fact, that I’ve genuinely had dreams about pixel hunts and puzzles involving rubber chickens, ancient typewriters, and that one key I swear I picked up already. But Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer? This one hit differently. Within minutes, I reached for my Rocketbook – my sacred gamer grimoire, only unshelved when a game graduates from a cosy clicker to a full-blown detective simulator.

5 days ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

PLATFORMSNintendo Switch 2REVIEWED ONNintendo Switch 2 Let’s be honest: reviewing Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour feels a lot like writing a 2000-word school essay about an instruction manual. And not even a fun one. This is a pamphlet masquerading as a video game. It’s technically a game in the same way that a calculator becomes a game if you press the buttons hard enough and pretend you’re defusing a bomb. To even call this a game feels wildly generous.

1 week ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

DEVELOPERStormteller GamesPUBLISHERThunderful PublishingPLATFORMSNintendo Switch; PlayStation 5; PC; Xbox Series X I went into Lost in Random: The Eternal Die expecting a reunion with an old friend. The kind where you fall back into the rhythm effortlessly, maybe solve a quirky puzzle together, share emotional damage over that scene in the original game, and sigh wistfully at how far you’ve both come. Instead, I got a roguelike. A good one, mind you.

1 week ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

You’ve done it! You’ve made it through another week of emails, meetings that could’ve, and should’ve been emails, and an inbox that still somehow isn’t empty. So now begins the sacred Friday ritual: you mentally check out around lunchtime, you physically pretend not to, and you scroll through NAG’s handpicked list of Steam sale goodies. We’ve trawled our wishlists so you don’t have to. So go on, treat yourself. You deserve it.

1 week ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

DEVELOPERSpace Sauce Studio By the time I was five minutes into Origament: A Paper Adventure, I’d completely forgotten I’d been flirting with League of Legends again. The jungle could wait. The tilt could wait. The toxic Discord call? That could wait forever. Because here I was, horizontal on the couch, emotionally swaddled in what can only be described as digital chamomile tea.