Video Games

The cartoon aesthetic belies how many severed heads, devastated bodies, and crushed bones you’ll leave in your wake. Linking this back to Hotline Miami once again, each chapter is split up into very short stages in which you need to kill…

At the bizarre intersection of very specific Jazz subgenres and tight-tactical gameplay comes South Pole Bebop, where penguins, seals and puffins face off against each other and zombies! I've got to be perfectly honest, there's a lot to…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take control of a team of silver age superheroes? If yes, then Capes might just be for you. If you’ve ever played a squad-based strategy game before, then you’re going to immediately recognise…

You are casually playing Quake knock-off Demon Blood one cold December evening in the year 2000, when your friend Mark messages you on Awesome Messenger to tell you about a weird game he’s been playing. Already this is giving me nostalgia,…

Oh, to be a cat out in the world! In A Day with Mochi, you get to do exactly that — play as a young cat who is currently living on a tropical island. There are tons of local cats here that just wander around doing whatever they want to do.…

GladiEATers is an interesting mix of a fighting and cooking game, combining into something you’ve likely never played before. Before you are able to battle against different chefs, you must cook your ingredients, building your battle party!…

Guide your colony through a deadly forest as they escape from a flood in their search for a new home in Empire of the Ants. The secret to getting strategy or tactical games to work on console is an incredibly closely guarded secret,…

A nice new addition from the sequel is a casual game mode that is played solely with LB for the bass notes and the A button for the lead notes. This is a great feature for younger players or those who find coordinating lots of button…

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island is a goofy, charming puzzle game where you find yourself shipwrecked on a strange island, with some people who seem somehow familiar. You play as Alex, who is now tasked to figure out a way off this island all…

Alright, full disclaimer — proud owner of several of Tove Jansson’s beautiful Moomin books, Moomin tattoo. I love these weird little melancholic creatures! Who doesn’t? So I approached Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley with a lot of…

Welcome to the 41st Millenium, Trader! Do you like war? No? Well that's too bad because there's a LOT of it. Okay, first things first, I am utterly and unapologetically enthusiastic about the universe of Warhammer 40,000. I think it’s an…

If you’ve played The Room or its ilk, you’ll know what the structure of this game will be. If not, you’ll work your way around a room, finding odd objects that will have hidden switches and compartments that will provide you with items that…

Honestly, I am not sure if sticker books are still a thing. As a child, I had sticker books that were themed, tons of them, with my own collection of stickers. My children do not collect stickers, however, and instead use them in crafting.…

"That's not how bullets work" is probably the last thing, beside the bullet, passing through the head of most of the enemies in Children of the Sun, a game where you can redirect your single bullet after it tastes destruction. Children of…

Long before the Far Cry series started messing around with RPG systems, Boiling Point was an open-world, first-person shooter that played with RPG and faction-based gameplay. It's back now, with a new lease of life from Ziggurat…

A Squirrel Must Have Buried It is a charming combination game where you have to combine various nature-themed objects that could have been possibly buried for future use - who knows.  In A Squirrel Must Have Buried It, you start off with…

Dwarves in gyrocopters. There’s just something about it, right? I don’t know how many games that can offer you both of these, but what I can tell you is that Bore Blasters has lots of them. Up until recently, I had no idea that I wanted a…

I am not someone who likes battling other people, in any sense of any game. It’s just not my thing. However I am a Pokemon fan, so I wanted to attend Pokemon EUIC in London, although every year I wonder if it’s worth attending.  Pokemon…

Bugs, Guns and Ore - If you like one of those things, you're gonna have a good time with Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. Get busy mining, or get busy dying! Dig deeper, shoot faster. If I had to describe Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor in one…

There are lots of different language apps out there, but certainly not many that are in VR! Noun Town Language Learning is a VR (and PC) game where you can tinker around with objects in a quirky, 3D World, to learn a different language.…