Video Games

Our house is a big fan of local, co-op games. Especially ones like Moving Out or Overcooked, where there is a frantic, need to get things done as soon as physically possible. That’s why I jumped at the opportunity to play Speed Crew - a…

Combat is as satisfying as ever, and with the much tighter camera angle, things feel significantly more visceral. Strikes from all sides look suitably vicious, and spells and powers pop off all over the screen, wiping out swarms of lesser…

There are a lot of top down, arena fighting games that can have you facing off against another player, controlling your own spaceships. Many of them have a pixel style, upgrades, and differences between the different machines. However,…

I don't know about you, but one thing that I definitely don't want to find myself having to do the next time I'm at the office is fighting my way out of a laboratory that's being overrun by an expanding, deadly lab-created viral horror born…

Combat works in the same way as it did before, with your four heroes taking on up to four enemies. Position in your party matters, as certain attacks can only be used if you are on the front line, whilst others require a character to be in…

Whilst there are a few other units for you to choose from here, I feel that there are a few really missed opportunities. I certainly wouldn’t expect every model from the tabletop to be included, but the lack of Squighog Boyz feels like a…

In Sudocats, the numbers are replaced with cute cartoon cats, with you needing to do the same as regular sudoku, but with different pictures. There’s an option to change the pictures into numbers if you want, but I feel that kind of defeats…

After Passpartout reached the top, there was only one place for him to go. Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist is an equally lovely, approachable and fun experience, but this time you exist in a more open, freeform world stacked with…

The concept here is simple enough. Your train will emerge from the red tunnel, and your job is to create a path for it to reach the blue tunnel whilst going to each train station along the route. The level is made up of hexes, some of which…

There’s an old Erasmus saying that I sometimes like to refer to when I feel that I might be among a group of people who are all about as helpless as each other: “in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king!” I am reminded of this…

There aren't many stealth games out there, and one reason for that is that it's incredibly hard to balance what happens when stealth goes wrong. You've got to give your enemies the same brutal power that you have over them, and you need to…

One of the most underused but effective design choices in action games (and cleverly used in puzzle games) is a transforming and evolving main character. In Munch it's core to the action-adventure experience. Imagine yourself as a blob, or…

When you’re not having conversations and making choices, you’re taking part in battles. The gameplay itself is predominantly a card based game. Your deck of twenty cards contains ten units and ten support cards. You play units to the…

The gameplay is pretty much what you’d expect from the genre. Monsters rush at you whilst your character automatically fires their weapons at the nearest enemy. You just need to focus on movement to get a better position and avoid damage.…

Setting up frontier settlements is probably already hard enough as it is, but in Circle of Kerzoven you also need to factor in the fact that the weather, flora and fauna are all set on following their own patterns regardless of your plans.…

As the world's oceans rose, humanity took to hiding in three underwater cities, as a result, space is at a premium and large numbers of people are cast out to survive in the ruined world. In Swordship you're a rebel from the city…

Walk down procedural streets, explore a facist-noir world and hunt down serial killers in the Shadows of Doubt. Rain beating down on cold city streets, Alfred Olofsson walks through Little Taipei, with a bigger magnum in their stomach than…

You’ll spend a lot of time jumping and grabbing ledges though, and most of the time this works well enough. Far too often though, Ludovik simply won’t grab a ledge, or jumps straight up instead of onto a box, or occasionally doesn’t jump at…

The act of actually playing through Mia and the Dragon Princess can feel a bit odd though. The pacing and tone are often bizarrely off-kilter from one moment to the next. MI5 agent Bennie can be making classically British quips only to be…

I feel like I played Super Meat Boy a lifetime ago as a completely different person. I remember the rage platformer well: I hated it. So when I saw Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine — a game that takes place in sort of the same world, I was…