Reuben Howe

With successful tabletop-ification of Worms and Halo under their belt (the Worms board game being one of my go-to’s for family game nights) Mantic Games are now turning their hand to the fabled Plants vs Zombies series. We knew the Plants…

Hell Clock has been on PC for a good stretch, but now with a full console release we have picked it up on PS5 to see how the indie ARPG rougelike(ish?) has stuck the landing. As it would happen, adding in the best mechanics from all your…

Crimson Capes is a hidden gem of a game; existing within a well-established genre can make it hard to stand out, but Crimson Capes’ rotoscoped animations and focus on simple but effective swordplay abilities make it one of the more engaging…

With Gamescom just gone, Blizzcon hot on its heels and now a tinyBuild Connect we are living good for games announcements. The tinyBuild Connect on September 14th included a staggering 17 games (and one sale event) and you can get a glance…

It’s been a while since we had an update on genre-bending, time-warping, insane-looking shooter Kingmakers. At the tinyBuild Connect on the 14th of September developers Redemption Road treated us to a gameplay deep dive going over exactly…

With game series like Hollow Knight taking the indie world by storm, we’ve seen a fair share of Metroidvania and Metroidvania-adjacent games roll out this past decade. It’s easy to assume, at first glance, that if a game is 2 or 2.5D and…

Dawn of War IV is the hotly-anticipated sequel in the hit RTS series (excluding the somewhat less hot Dawn of War 3). By all accounts it’s a true return-to-form for the series, and in order to try and prove it there are three real-time…

No Man’s Sky celebrated its 10 year anniversary just last month, and now the team at Hello Games are giving back to their long-standing community. The No Man’s Sky COSMOS update launches today across all platforms, giving players access to…

The Last Gas Station released in April 2026 with a beautifully rendered world that was frustrating to actually play and engage with. Since then, the team at Alawar have been hard at work with progression overhauls, bug fixes and the like.…

Cozy Grove introduced us to a world of Spirit Scouts, Ghost Bears and magical creatures to meet, greet, tame and care for. Cozy Grove Camp Spirit expands the number of questlines and adds hundreds of new items while staying identical to the…

Orchestrated destruction game Teardown is somewhat of an indie darling, and a new update will allow players to group up for precise placements, careful crashing and inevitable improvisation. The free Teardown multiplayer update drops onto…

It seems you can’t go a month without seeing a Hades-esque action game on your Steam homepage. To many, the genre is already a write-off. The assumptions that Hades has done it best and the genre is oversaturated result in gamers simply…

The Skaven are a skittering, somewhat helpless little species from the Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe. Usually they’re depicted in large hordes of fleshy hitboxes (In Vermintide) or even larger hordes of sneak-kill swarm-swarm (in the new…

In the grim darkness of the far future...there was mostly Nurgle. Honestly, even as a Deathguard main on the tabletop, it was kind of annoying seeing every videogame adaptation of Chaos be Nurgle. Then, finally, something changed. The new…

Deckbuilding roguelikes are far from undersaturated, but that doesn’t stop indie devs from putting out their take on the divisive genre. While Relief has many cards that are direct copies from Slay the Spire, it presents progression and…

We’ve had roguelike deckbuilders, movement shooters, ARPGs and even Hello Kitty themed rhythm games (Yes, Hello Kitty and Friends Happiness Parade is a rhythm roguelike, don’t ask how I know). Now, in the year of our lord 2026, we have…

Nioh has been the arcadey bombastic brother to the Soulslike genre for a good while now and the most recent entry, Nioh 3, is living up to Team Ninja’s reputation for replayable, highly customisable action combat. The first DLC, Hell…

Everything Is Crab puts the "survive" into the "Survivors" genre, with a myriad of ways to outwit, outrun and overpower the various denizens of its cute pixel-art world. Variety is truly Everything Is Crab's strong suit, with runs ranging…

Chaotic “one-screen” RTS game D.O.T Defence pushes fast-paced action and auto-battler vibes into a usually more tactical genre to great effect. I just wish I wanted to actually carry on playing it. But there’s something that every game has…

Pokemon Pokopia is another fantastic example of how spin-offs are the best of the Pokemon universe. Interacting with Pokemon, building habitats and letting your creativity run wild are all balanced across an impressively expansive series of…