Video Games

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…

Subversion is to game design as plot twists are to narrative, not necessary ingredients, but when done well they can completely transform a game into something that'll live on through player memory and conversation for years. Nectarmancer…

In each puzzle, you use photographs to manipulate the environment in order to reach a teleporter. By holding up a polaroid photo in front of you and clicking, that photo becomes part of the world. It’s hard to describe just how amazing this…

Tracks of Thought is an adorable, charming game about being a little bug, looking to have a lovely train ride. Your day was off to a bit of a hard start, as you had nearly missed your train just to find that it was actually delayed. There…

Now we have the Cupboards and Drawers DLC, which implies that you’ll be tidying and organising cupboards and drawers. There are actually far more different things to organise in the thirty included levels, but there are a lot of closets and…

Rather than being a direct remake of the two games, Layers of Fear tries to tie the events of these games together. This rerelease of sorts wraps the games into an overarching narrative of a writer who has been sent to an isolated…

Summer is in the air, so it feels like a good time to release couch co-op games for us to play with our families during the summer holiday! Manic Mechanics is one of these chaotic, fun, co-op games where you must fix up various vehicles as…

Simulators have allowed people to take on a variety of different roles, adapting when new jobs seem to appear or come into existence here and there. Sticky Business allows players to start up their own sticker shop, where they can create…

Moving out of your family home, away from your comfort zone, to a new town when starting a new job is already a daunting task. In Fishbowl, it’s also the start of everyone needing to stay home and work from home (though it does not state it…

There are roughly fifty cats on each floor, many of which are easy to spot, but with a good number that will require a more thorough scouring of the environment. Each one is a fairly simple design, but this feels deliberate so that they…

The afterburner is great fun when you’re flying through tight tunnels, as you reach Ludicrous Speed instantly, resulting in you hurtling along and probably pinballing off the walls as you go. 

If you are a fan of the fighting style in Sega's Yakuza series, then indie game Troublemaker which takes inspiration from Yakuza but allows you to play as a highschooler, might be one to check out. Troublemaker: Raise Your Gang is an…

I know that we're a little late with this one, but it's hard to not want to tell somebody about Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate after you've played it... and, I'm guessing, you've maybe not played it. So now I'm going to tell you why you…

With so many platformers coming out every year, it's hard for one to stand out. Don Salmon manages to do that by fusing elements of both horizontal and vertical platformers with a beautiful lilac and green-led colour palette. Godot Engine,…

Toy Tactics is a tabletop twist on real-time tactics, complete with goofy physics, and pieces that wobbly rather than march. The biggest problem with a game genre having had its heyday a few decades back is that there's always a massive…

Co-op roguelite meets one of the Brothers Grimm's best-known stories in Seven Dwarfs: Legends Untold. Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee, or the verb-y ones, are out though. Instead Surprised Turtles' dwarves have names that…

Items aren’t where you left them, machines are mysteriously damaged, and something keeps knocking on doors. I can’t go into too much detail for fear of spoiling a lot of what happens, but suffice to say that you rapidly descend into…