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Balance training and spinning to bring glory to Flaustria in surreal strategy title Astronaut: The…
Lead the Flaustrian Space Race, carefully monitoring and managing your astronaut's stats, appeasing the five high priests, spinning the wheels of propaganda in your favour and all while trying to meet deadlines. Astronaut: The Best is a…
How Hollow Knight’s difficulty tells a story
Difficulty is a constant source of contention in gaming. Some want easier access to the content of a game, others want an exhilarating challenge. However, the structure of many games and their narratives suggest that the experience cannot…
Revisiting Broken Lines, a squad-based tactics game
In “We-go” tactics games, turns are removed altogether and the player and enemies move simultaneously. Broken Lines is the most recent iteration of this style and a darn good implementation of it too. Instead of turns, the gameplay in…
Incarnation is a roguelite where your character becomes progressively weaker
When you hurt yourself the pain lingers, you age, things freeze up, bits don't work like they used to; things start falling off or falling out. Who'd want to be mortal? Well, at least one angel has a serious case of FOMO, and Incarnation is…
Engagement, ADHD, and Gaming
Video games are an interactive audio-visual medium that can conveys stories or experiences in a way few other forms of media can. The methods used by games to convey themselves are as varied as the genres they cover. This diversity allows…
The 10 Best Mobile Territory Conquest Games
When it comes to the mobile gaming field, there are so many different types of strategy games out there. There are massive 4x strategy games, real time tactics based games, turn based games, and then there are territory conquest games.…
Top 5 Eco-Friendly Board Games – Protect Echo the Dolphin!
Board games are not great for the environment. No matter how much you share, trade, and buy second hand, the market is saturated with huge amounts of processed plastics.
Song of Farca is a near-future narrative hacking game full of character
At the moment humanity is at an industrial peak; for better or worse, technology is racing forward faster than it can be regulated, and humanity is still, in many ways, dealing with issues from generations ago. In Song of Farca you take on…
Operation: Tango is A Wild Spy Co-op
Operation: Tango is an asymmetrical spy co-op that pits you and a friend against a looming international terror.
We took a look at The Emperor’s Own’s teaser
Prepare for things to get spooky in The Emperor's Own, a story-driven adventure game set in an alternate-19th-century Russian Empire.
Warhammer 40k: Battlesector is a bit of a (Dread)snore
I've been lucky enough to play a few Warhammer games in recent years and the use of the IP often seems quite hit or miss. Some games like Total War: Warhammer are stellar uses for this IP, whilst others like Necromunda are underwhelming, to…
Quantum League makes you your own best teammate
Quantum League is an FPS where timing matters more than your aim. This arena shooter gives players a chance to work with their past and future selves in order to take down opponents and score big.
Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition — I didn’t even learn math.
To be completely honest, I have never played Frog Fractions before, because why would I have? I hate fractions. I am not a big fan of frogs, why would I want to play a math game. As it turns out, Frog Fractions has some bad branding, as you…
Pill Baby Hands On — Exploring a new town
As a part of my IGF judging, I got to take on an early demo of Pill Baby — a story-based action game about an immigrant who has just moved cities to take on a new, and somewhat average job. As a new person to this world, you seem to not…
Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends’ Kickstarter is a heartfelt tribute to the comic
Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends takes the magic of the comic and turns it into a fun-filled platformer packed to the brim with wonderment and awe. Exploring Slumberland as Nemo and friends certainly seems like a dream come true!
Everspace 2 (Early Access) — Ready to Take Flight
Having played the demo last year, I was excited to see more of what Developers Rockfish had to offer with their space shooter darling. Whilst their first outing had a focus on roguelike elements, Everspace 2 swaps this out for an open…
Hidden Deep — Deep sea mining, early impressions
Hidden Deep takes place in a remote, submerged, deep sea mining rig with the title screen depicting a small submarine transiting your crew to the facility. The eerie silence of the rig is pretty apparent and visually the style reminds me of…
AnShi — ET and a hoverboard
AnShi is a wild game about an alien who rides its hoverboard through vast, exotic landscapes in order to activate memories from its ancestors’ past.
Art and Soul — Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 delivers an awe-inspiring showcase of a semi-believable future filled with the grunge of holographic advertisements and the gritty realism of greed rendered into a tangible form.
Jupiter’s Top 5 Games of 2020
2020 was a year where I did not play as many video games as previous years. It was a year of staying home, a year of lots of work, and a year of lots of spending time on the couch not thinking about much. Despite being a strange year for…