Alex Wilmot

Graphics are good but it’s the scaling that’s most interesting. Grabbing a ship and moving your hands apart — like stretching dough — zooms in. It can either get you in on the action or be used to investigate enemy ships and show where the…

It’s as if The Legend of Zelda and Dark Souls shacked up and decided to create something with the exploration, wonder and scale of Hyrule but with the enemy difficulty and punishment factor of Lordran

First things first, this isn’t a “souls-like”. At first glance it looks like one; hopeless premise — check, mystical fantasy setting — check, massive punishing bosses — check.

Playing on the Xbox Series X or PC (MW5 is Cross-Buy), MW5 takes full advantage of the power on offer with full 4K Ultra High Resolution textures bringing to life the alien frontier worlds from the Inner Sphere.

Four Kings Video Poker plays a variant of poker known as “Jacks or Better”. This means you need at least a pair of Jacks (or something of equal value) to win anything back from your bets.

Even though your health only regenerates to around 60%, many of the player skills such as the Trumpet or the Banner deployed by the Knight class will heal those in the vicinity allowing you to dive right back in at full health

Swarm, although single player, will have players coming back consistently with a solid arcade-like challenge that is always fun to play and difficult to put down.

King of Seas, a pirate simulator from the team over at 3DClouds and published by Team 17, returns players to a past littered with looting, dramatic sea battles, shanties and trading with a healthy measure of humour and its own unique take…

Puzzles are often interlinked but at all times there’s a handy intercom system players can use for help from the supervisor, it’s still present in the main stretch although you do need to navigate back to the main elevator to use it.

Taking place within the cinematic universe of the Zombieland series, your character is taken under the wing of the film’s unlikely crew and tutored in the art of zombie slaying whilst working toward entry in a global tournament

Looking beautiful, sounding great and with an authentic feel to it, Tennis World Tour 2 is an excellent take on the Tennis circuit whilst the addition of the card mechanic offers further strategy to a mainly action based game.

Waking in a cell situated in what looks to be a castle tower, you are quickly introduced to the flows of magic in this dimension. Given your mystical training it’s possible to weave these flows to your advantage to solve a number of puzzles…

Recent survival simulators have explored forests, jungles and even the deepest oceans but Breathedge mixes things up in zero gravity from the beginning with a deep space setting.

Although three separate games, each game in the We Were Here series follows the same premise. You and your companion take on different roles and must cooperate together using whatever you can find to escape from your mysterious captors.

Valheim tasks players with adventuring and proving their worth across massive randomly generated worlds whilst learning to survive through the collecting of resources and the crafting of new weapons, armour and a construction system to…

Five years after the start of World War II, the Third Reich continued their occupation of Europe. Allied forces decide to open a so-called “second front” in Western Europe to turn the tides of war.

Yupitergrad’s puzzles are mostly fairly basic but the action of solving them is very satisfying and getting a handle on the momentum physics suddenly becomes second nature after 20-30 minutes

Immediately drawing parallels with indie classics Inside and Limbo, Eternal Hope presents a somewhat more colourful premise than the gloomy grayscale approach taken by Limbo

A new varied take on mech combat with deep customization and strategy mechanics, the timeline mechanic adds additional options to tweak, deploy and effect countermeasures at every turn and at each stage of an engagement.