Video Games

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo is a point and click adventure game that clearly draws inspiration from classic animated TV shows, with you helping Mr. Coo through a variety of strange situations. He actually doesn’t want to be in the strange,…

There are lots of points in the day where you are waiting — a lot of life, as it turns out, is waiting. Now, with technology, there is actually a lot of things that you can do while you wait, however, that’s not what While Waiting is about.…

Forget beat poetry, in Verses of Enchantment you have to win magical duals by beating each other with poetry. When Verses of Enchantment was doing the press release dance there was a heavy lean on the super-cool procedural generation that…

CLeM is a mysterious, point and click adventure game that starts with you searching for something beautiful for a creepy voice that has appeared in your head. You wake up in your basement, unsure of who you are or what your purpose is. A…

The levelling up feels a lot fairer now too. Previously, late game enemies would give you very little experience, really stunting your levelling as a run went on. Now you seem to be rewarded much more reasonably, with stronger enemies…

Pizza Possum is a chaotic game where you get to become a trash panda trying to eat all of the food you can get your hands on in this town! The town itself is stacked, sort of all on top of each other, with food seemingly everywhere. I am…

Universe For Sale is a stunning, hand drawn point and click adventure game that puts you in the role of a cult member, who has given up everything - including their skin - to reach enlightenment. Your story starts as you go to explore a…

What is it like having giant monsters roam around the world, seeing them in places you’ve been, and fighting them to kill them off? Monster Hunter Now, a mobile game addition to the Monster Hunter series, brings classic monsters to life.…

This is in part, a tale of the struggles of families who emigrate and find their new homes perhaps not as welcoming as they would hope, which I feel is an important narrative these days. But Venba doesn’t dwell on this, instead being more…

A West-African nation, Grand Chien, has entered a new era of turmoil as an upstart, rebel faction has rapidly laid claim to the country and kidnapped the president. The President's surviving family, his daughter has hired you to assemble a…

For the most part, Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition is the exact same game, but at a much higher resolution and with an uncapped framerate, which is a good thing considering how insanely fast the gameplay is. That does mean that the…

A one day old bread golem is an unlikely hero, but any hero will have to do when a massive plot lasting over the last few thousand years suddenly plays out.. You're right in the middle fo it, and it’s up to you to save the world! Born of…

From the creator of Four Last Things and The Procession to Calvary comes a new, point and click adventure game full of humor, with the style of Renaissance paintings. If you enjoyed the developer's previous two games, you will surely enjoy…

There’s a lot on offer with Antstream Arcade. Currently there’s over 1400 games on the service, all of which are legitimately available through licensing deals. That’s a hell of a lot of games, and they stretch across a fairly significant…

It is not a secret that I am a huge fan of local multiplayer games, especially ones that can be played with younger children like my daughter Robin, so that the whole family can join in on the action. After nearly 100 percenting Moving Out,…

Anyway, you’ll receive a number of products, ranging from coffee grinders and pipe cutters to games consoles and arcade cabinets, and your job will be to replace broken parts and occasionally clean up or repaint them. Get them fixed and…

As a child, I remember playing Nintendogs on Nintendo DS. Caring for my own virtual dogs when my parents wouldn’t let me have the commitment of raising one in the real world. Little Friends: Puppy Island has the same sort of vibes, but…

Animal Well sees you exploring a beautiful, glowing world of strange plants, interesting creatures, and different caverns. You play as a little blob, exploring this world on your own, seeing what abilities you can end up with and how to get…

Shattered Heaven does the classic RPG thing of asking you to fight monsters, get stronger, and kill a god. I had a good old time with the Shattered Heaven preview build earlier in the year. Mechanically it was quite excellent and the art…

SurMount is a physics-based platformer that allows you and a friend to take on climbing a massive mountain together! You can also play single player mode, but when I spent some time with SurMount at GDC, I wanted to focus on the two player…