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Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist is a delight that improves on the first in every way
After Passpartout reached the top, there was only one place for him to go. Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist is an equally lovely, approachable and fun experience, but this time you exist in a more open, freeform world stacked with…
Railway Islands – On track
The concept here is simple enough. Your train will emerge from the red tunnel, and your job is to create a path for it to reach the blue tunnel whilst going to each train station along the route. The level is made up of hexes, some of which…
Spelunky 2 – familiar depths to plunder, for those who know the way…
There’s an old Erasmus saying that I sometimes like to refer to when I feel that I might be among a group of people who are all about as helpless as each other: “in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king!” I am reminded of this…
Mr Sun’s Hatbox is Tactical Espionage Action at its quirkiest and best
There aren't many stealth games out there, and one reason for that is that it's incredibly hard to balance what happens when stealth goes wrong. You've got to give your enemies the same brutal power that you have over them, and you need to…
Munch is an evolutionary adventure of careful dodges and decisions
One of the most underused but effective design choices in action games (and cleverly used in puzzle games) is a transforming and evolving main character. In Munch it's core to the action-adventure experience. Imagine yourself as a blob, or…
Ash of Gods: The Way – This is The Way
When you’re not having conversations and making choices, you’re taking part in battles. The gameplay itself is predominantly a card based game. Your deck of twenty cards contains ten units and ten support cards. You play units to the…
Remedium: Sentinels – Zombie survivors
The gameplay is pretty much what you’d expect from the genre. Monsters rush at you whilst your character automatically fires their weapons at the nearest enemy. You just need to focus on movement to get a better position and avoid damage.…
Hostile Hoarders: First Edition feels like it just needs more
When it comes to card-based games where you go head to head against the rest of your group, you need a well balanced group of people. All of your friends need to be equally against each other, without targeting specific people at the start.…
Circle of Kerzoven is a city builder about balancing ecology and economy
Setting up frontier settlements is probably already hard enough as it is, but in Circle of Kerzoven you also need to factor in the fact that the weather, flora and fauna are all set on following their own patterns regardless of your plans.…
Swordship is a death-dodging dance of risk and reward
As the world's oceans rose, humanity took to hiding in three underwater cities, as a result, space is at a premium and large numbers of people are cast out to survive in the ruined world. In Swordship you're a rebel from the city…