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Clean Up Earth – Scrubs up well?
As you clean up, you’ll gain recyclable rubbish that you can take to a machine which will turn it into coins or usable resources. Coins can be used to upgrade your Terra Cleaner and its attachments, whilst resources are used in the…
New survivors game R.I.P is a bullet heaven you have to earn
The cathartic flashes, shakes and audible jingles that accompany an end-game run of a bullet heaven are addicting, and have made survivors-likes a staple in the modern gaming scene. Each has its own take on the genre, R.I.P (Reincarnation…
The Marvel MaXimum Collection puts the deserving X-Men front and centre
Marvel MaXimum Collection on Xbox is one of the most sought after retro throwbacks that I can remember. It’s far from just a bundle of old ROM’s, and much more a curated archive of some very specific slices of Marvel’s gaming history.…
Ragdoll Physics Experiment – Chaos is a Feature
Ragdoll Physics Experiment is a 3D narrative game focused entirely on ragdoll physics and getting through different tasks and situations whilst playing as said ragdoll character. It's both witty and funny, while also testing your…
Pokopia – Living the Dream with your Childhood Friends
Pokopia has hit the headlines recently as being one of the first Switch 2 must haves, with fans flocking to stores to pick up the console in order to dive in. It probably goes without saying, but Nintendo didn't send us a code for this one.…
Neopets – Mega Mini Games Collection – The Neopian Arcade Odyssey – For the…
Neopets is that nostalgic, internet website that I feel everyone my age played when they were a child. It's a website that I feel like most people have heard of, if not for it's strange past than for the forums and ways that the website was…
Earth Must Die! Review – Polite Apocalypse, Delivered with Alien Indifference
There are villains, and then there are the sort of villains who gaze thoughtfully at an entire planet and decide, with quiet conviction, that it’s all a bit unnecessary. Not evil, exactly. Just… inefficiently existent. Earth Must Die! is…
Small and simple adventure Under the Island is exactly what I needed
Nostalgia is a powerful tool in the gaming industry with genres like the first-person grid-based dungeon crawler (Hello Vampire Crawlers and Dungeons of DUSK) still resurging in 2026. Under the Island is the latest in a consistent string of…
Remnants of Yore – An Early Look at PGC
Remnants of Yore is a cosy combination of running a store and roguelite action as you build up your stock, complete quests and cruise around town helping anyone and everyone on your adventure. Remnants of Yore was exhibited at Pocket Gamer…
Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown Review – There’s Coffee in That Nebula
“There’s coffee in that nebula.” Few lines capture the spirit of Star Trek: Voyager quite like that one, and it’s a fitting starting point for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown, a strategy game that puts you in command of the…
Drop Duchy – Princley Puzzle, or Ponderous Pauper?
Drop Duchy - Complete Edition dropped onto Xbox Game Pass early this year, so I decided to take a look at this strange puzzle/deck building/rogue-lite. What I found intrigued me. If you've read any of my other reviews, you've probably…
ICARUS: Console Edition is a flawed diamond in a packed genre
ICARUS: Console Edition is one of the more ambitious survival games to make the leap from PC to Xbox, and in many ways it succeeds in delivering the same atmospheric, punishing, and strangely hypnotic loop that defined the original. The…
The Fortress proves that luck-based games still need agency
Chances to hit, effect procs, damage ranges and luck of the draw have been relevant to gaming for decades – longer if you consider the Pen & Paper RPG origins of those mechanics. Luck can make us cry “Bullshit!” just as easily as it can…
Hatch, Evolve and Battle in Creature Companions
Creature Companions from Rhino Rock Studios was exhibited at Pocket Gamer Connect London and I sat down and got my hands on an early build of it. It's a brand new game, freshly out of prototyping, that focuses on hatching creatures to…
Dark Quest 4 is a big stab of nostalgia, right to the face.
There’s something undeniably comforting about a dungeon crawler that knows exactly what it wants to be. From Brain Seal Entertainment — the studio behind other gems like Monarchy (which I happily lost an entire weekend to) and Story of a…
When the great eye of The King is Watching, you better be ready to get back to work.
The King Is Watching comes to us from relative unknowns Hypnohead, but is published by the figurative giants tinyBuild. To give you a quick idea of what it's about, Imagine Lord of the Rings, but in this instance the all-seeing eye is not…
Battle Puzzle 2048 Queens of the Abyss – Technically a Puzzle, but not fit for Royalty
EpiXR Games is at it again with another technically playable game with little to no instruction. Battle Puzzle 2048 - Queens of the Abyss (By the grace of the editors, now shortened to BP2048) is a reimagining of the 2048 game everybody was…
Zumba Marble Candy Rush – Sweet Surprise, or Gut Rot?
I was a huge fan of the Zuma titles back when they first released, so when Zumba - Marble Candy Rush (ZMCR, please Ed?) crossed my desk I was excited — despite the obvious copycat behaviour. A good game is a good game, right? Even when the…
Capes – Crime Fighting Ain’t Pretty
Capes is a turn based strategy RPG set in a world not unlike ours. A shadowy corporation rules the streets, punishing those who try to do good whilst controlling the narrative and labelling them terrorists. The key difference? They have…
Darktide Hivescum DLC – Guns, Guns, Guns!
Darktide’s new Hivescum DLC was recently released, featuring a brand new class that features a bit of a twist compared to other classes: The ability to craft your own stimulants to enhance yourself mid-fight. The Hivescum class focuses on…