Video Games

Another day, another low-key strategy title makes its way to console — and this time it’s a hybrid of Surviving Mars, Aven Colony and… The Sims? Yes, you read that right — Stranded: Alien Dawn typically allows the player to work with just…

Most of your time in the game is spent walking around an environment to find a character or object so the story progresses, playing the occasional mini-game as you go. It’s nice enough, and means it’s very accessible to younger kids who…

Joking Hazard is a board game bound to be compared to Cards Against Humanity; with clear parallels between the judging and ‘not politically correct’ nature of the game. Some of the outcomes from rounds of Joking Hazard will possibly upset…

First is the unique (for the subgenre anyway) Slime mechanic. This works a lot like a meter in many fighting games, most notably recent Mortal Kombat releases, with you building it up by hitting and being hit. Depending on how much Slime…

Dodge and near-miss your way through traffic as you race to work in Bumpy Grumpy's cool, arcade style. Mommy's Best Games are at it again. If you're a fan of arcade-style games, but are not aware of their previous work (which includes games…

Tom the Postgirl is a story-based, point and click adventure game that is full of dark humor and slightly creepy scenes. Tom has the job of delivering packages all through the town, however beyond being someone just delivering items, you…

Luckily, the weapons are fun to use and can dispatch most opponents in just a few shots. The pistols are solid enough options, and your shotgun will destroy those annoying knights in a single blast with a little luck. I found myself leaning…

Rogue Voltage is a mix of a roguelike deckbuilder and an automation game, creating something unlike I’ve ever seen before. You will be connecting your own modules, which allow you to make a sort of machine. This machine is then used to…

Perhaps obviously, Football Manager is back, and equally obviously, Football Manger 2024 is better than ever. Of course, whether it's good or not isn't the question, the question is how much better it is. I'm over a season into Football…

Sometimes a game comes along and builds out an existing formula, scaling up something that had felt like a finished product that couldn't be improved upon. Sometimes the thing that gets scaled up isn't even the same kind of media. ORX has…

From your start stranded on an island, Havendock challenges you to build up your own world, create something sustainable, and help others who have been displaced. This game looks a lot like mobile adverts for something similar, that circled…

Larger confrontations are more interesting, with you having options like clapping and bowing in the correct combination to banish your foe, or perhaps using an ally to distract them. I appreciated these more as they put a thrilling…

Tales from Candleforth is a horror-filled 2D point and click adventure game where fairy tales were written in a forbidden book. Now, years later, the text is mixing with the pages of the story itself, twisting them around, and creating a…

Hauma - A Detective Noir Story is, as you may have guessed, a narrative-driven detective game. Here you play as Judith, an ex detective who is looking to figure out what's afoot in the higher society of her homecity. This narrative…

Warhammer 40,000 has gone a surprising amount of time since it was last pivoted into a gore-soaked boomer shooter, but Boltgun has more than made up for it, as one of perhaps the most obvious adaptations of the universe, but also one of the…

Volcano Princess is a bit of a cross between a tamagotchi game and an RPG adventure, where you need to make sure that your daughter is well taken care of and raised right, so she can become the best princess the land has ever seen. …

Mechanically, this is very simple to play, with there actually being quite limited interaction. I could see some people arguing that this is a walking simulator, a term that I’m not a fan of, but there’s a certain element of puzzle solving…

Rebuild a resistance against the machines and save humanity in Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance's real-time-tactics. I was a little blindsided by the Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance demo. At first, I had thought it was going to be a string…

You can end up with a fleet of ships to hop in and out of when you head to home base, or you can sell them to get a new model. They feel quite different too, with powerful, armoured Vindicators being quite sluggish when compared to the…

A Castle Full of Cats is a hidden object game where you are looking for various cats within static screens to help you unlock more doors, go through lots of levels, and learn more about the cats that are living within this massive castle.…