Rob Covell

If you played the likes of Warcraft or Command & Conquer back in the day, you’ll feel immediately at home. The controls are exactly what you’ll remember, from contextual right clicking to numbered control groups, everything feels like…

Playing as the founder of the titular Shuten Order, disaster strikes from the moment the game opens. You’ve been murdered, seemingly by one of the five leaders of the different ministries of your order. Lucky for you, you’ve been revived by…

Car designs are fabulous, and the tracks feel like bonkers cityscapes in a technology-gone-mad future and I really like how the art style comes together as something really fitting for the type of game the devs are going for. 

Once you have an idea on how to get everything working, this can be quite fun to mess around with. You start by laying out a ground floor using foundations on which you can put parking spaces. That’s not enough though, as cars need to be…

I think it’s the sort of game where you need to go into it blind and experience all of its insanity with as little background knowledge as possible.

Making things trickier are the mannequins that at first simply stand around. Some of them are active, whilst others are aggressive but it won’t be clear which are which until they actually become active. Your objectives will funnel you in…

You manage an entire team of workers who head down into an ever more expansive mineshaft to gather resources that you’ll use to upgrade your mine platform. Once you’ve gained enough, your platform will take your team deeper to gather ever…

In what is probably my favourite inclusion in Nightmare Frontier, each party member has their own fear which will manifest in the battles you take them into. This means you can tailor your run to face the enemies you want to fight and have…