Video Games

With good horror, the kind that sticks in the mind, it's always about something. That can be deeply personal; grieving a relative, trauma that changes you, a desire to instill a fear of clowns in anyone who reads your work. Cronos: The New…

Last year's Tiny Book Shop, from neoludic games, is the latest game to get a physical release, this one coinciding with the console release. Tiny Bookshop is a cozy, slice of life style game where you play as the owner of a traveling…

Outright Games is known for creating a bunch of family friendly games with popular children's licenses. Most of these launch across both PC and consoles, and sometimes accompany TV series and movie releases. We've previously had a look at a…

Tiny Build Games has announced Graveyard Keeper 2, a sequel to 2018's Graveyard Keeper.  If you've not heard of the first game, it's essentially a creepier version of Stardew Valley, where you are actually becoming a caretaker of a…

It reminded me of Mothergunship and Vampire Hunters with their gun stacking and modding mechanics, and that’s kind of the biggest problem I had with Galactic Vault. Every time I sat down — and genuinely did enjoy playing a run — I found…

Most of the games you find on Steam from indie developers have been through varying lengths of Early Access. Just last year 7 Days to Die capped off the record for longest Early Access period, a whopping 11 years! Others are as short as 6…

The premise of Trash Goblin is incredibly simple. You are a Goblin, you get given trash, you turn that into treasure (well, trinkets as the game calls them) and sell them in your shop. Trash Goblin, brought to life by Spilt Milk Studios, is…

Nostalgia's a cruel drug, especially with films and games where it strips out the boring bits while also blurring the pixels and flaws. That said, few genres have benefited more from nostalgia than point-and-click, and Ghost Haunting is an…

Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green were released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004 (themselves remakes of Pokemon Red/Blue/Green that were released in 1996/98 depending on your region for the Game Boy). In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of…

Pioner drops you, with no memories, into a wasteland world, tasked with exploring the wastes to find out what happened in your past and help a town of wanderers against the many terrifying creatures that hunt them. Pioner is self described…

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…

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…

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 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 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 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…

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…

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 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…

“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…