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Radio Commander offers you nothing but a radio and a map. We have been playing its Kickstarter demo.

Every crab is out for themselves, with no care about the others who are also trying to survive. Instead of helping each other in King of Crabs, your goal is to simply eat enough to outlive the others, unless you want to start fighting! King…

The world-building in the story is flawless thanks to the game’s keen interest in community and attention to detail.

Tied Escape: The Curse of Cortez starts with you and a friend each tied to chairs and to each other. You need to work together to hit the correct buttons to escape… err.. well, get the fastest time. While at GDC, I spent some time playing…

Nintendo Switch owners are already spoiled for choice when it comes to high quality twin stick shooters, not to mention games with a strategic focus. It’s rare for a game to merge strategy and action as seamlessly as X-Morph: Defense does,…

Sometimes, fast paced mini-games need a theme to string them together. In Plünge, that theme is plumbing. Playing head to head against another player in order to make a plummer fall in-love with you, Plünge was designed to be played using…

A reflective review of Michael Kiesling's game: Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra.

If you’re following my Twitter, you’ll know that I am in America for a bit, hanging out with my dad. My dad doesn’t really understand the internet, doesn’t know much about what I do, and lives in a very small town — he doesn’t have a…

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is an important example of leaning on your art design. The vibrant open fantasy world in Yonder dabbles in magic here and there, but most of the magic is found through discovery and exploration.

Rise, fish, fight, feint, dive, and repeat. You are a fledgling pilot, inching ever closer to a mythical sky whale to fulfil a dream your father always had for you. In Airheart: A Tale of Broken Wings, each flight is a battle to survive so…

Resident Evil 2 takes some of the most-loved aspects of the digital original and translates them onto the tabletop.

Wooden Nickel, by the developers of Burly Men at Sea, takes you into a simplistic looking wild west, where you can explore loads of strange adventures. This narrative adventure puts you in the shoes of a traveller, looking to explore the…

Riddled Corpses EX expects you to fight and die over and over until you’ve collected enough gold to power up your character to the point that they are able to overcome the challenge.

Starstruck, a game completely set within a miniature diorama, sees you both following music and becoming a giant hand. In a game where everything looks like clay, you can play as Dawn or Edwin, two children whose lives are tied with the…

In 2456 they awoke. Whilst I had always known of their palpable hatred for humankind, I had never known the true wrath of the Bruggan Zealots, nor faced them in battle. For two hundred and fifty years they had watched, seething at us with…

Melon Journey 2 takes you into a retro-themed RPG where you play a young animal character, whose world is seemingly wonderful. However, in Froach Club’s Melon Journey 2, not all is as cute and charming as it seems. Your character is looking…

Apparently, ski lifts can go very wrong very easily...

Blast your way to the top in Shump, a juicy, three-button, shoot-‘em-up platformer. Shump, from Alex Johansson, is an effort created to solve a problem the creator saw in the vertical platformer sub-genre: ‘They often feel clumsy and…

Consonant please, Gandalf... I mean Carol... What on Earth is happening here?  For the uninitiated, Spell Smashers could easily be seen as just another throwaway fantasy deck-building game. Look closer, however, and you'll discover that…

Audica is one of those magical games that you play when you get home from work, find a smidge of free time after class or just play until its 3 AM in the morning.