Psitanium Mine

It’s that time of year when we do the best to worst list and boy, there are so many big titles we need to discuss. There were some truly great games that came out and also… less good ones. This year’s list has 31 games on it and it’s quite a marathon. Enjoy.

It’s finally time. We need to discuss the Mass Effect trilogy. Not only did I have a reluctance to finish the series, but apparently I had a reluctance to do an episode about it.

So, let us look at the Legendary Edition, which updates and synergizes the three installments into a cohesive product. Does that help with the experience as opposed to the first time I played it many years ago? And should we still be critical of the ending?

Strange that we never talked about No Man’s Sky on this show before. Since it’s Spacember, I guess we can rectify that. So, let’s go into the infinite universe to collect carbon.

Time to discuss Breathedge for the first… second time! We did a Psitanium Mine episode on the game back in 2021, but it’s time to revisit the exploded ship and minimal gravity of this game world. Will we find our dead grandfather before it’s too late? Well, no, because he’s already dead.

Prey will make you question reality itself. You will never pick up a mug without smacking it with a wrench ever again. Arkane was in peak shape when they made this reboot and it holds up to this day. So dust off your neuromods and fire up the q-beam, we’re going to fight the Typhon one more time.

Starfield is a big game… too big, you could say. In fact, Starfield has so many things going on that it’s hard to explain exactly what you do in the game, but let us discuss what stood out after my 100+ hours of playing Bethesda’s new sandbox.

It’s been awhile since we had a Psitanium Mine. To make up for it, wwe are pleased to announced a whole month of space game episodes. It shall be called… SPACEMBER!!!

During December, each week we will feature a big space game, including Starfield, Prey, Breathedge, Dead Space and the Mass Effect trilogy.

Merry Spacemas everyone!!!

Go on a hike up Hawk Peak with your anthropomorphic bird protagonist Claire while collecting golden feathers to take you even higher. All in the service of getting cell reception to call home. Let's discuss a lighter, shorter game than we normally do as a nice change of pace.

Metroidvanias are cropping up more often now and it’s a welcome return to a great genre. F.I.S.T. is such a title with the added benefit of featuring an anthropomorphic rabbit with a giant mechanical fist on his back. Sounds great, right?

We here at Psitanium Mine are connoisseurs of fine Borderlands content. As such, we proudly present the fantasy-infused looter shooter Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Gearbox gives us magic, dragons, pirates, unicorns, hand crossbows and so much more as we cross the overworld and hunt down The Dragon Lord. How does it stack up to other titles in the series? What works better and what features are missing here?