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Cozy Builder Showdown – Which is the best fantasy citybuilder for relaxing with?
Who doesn’t love a cozy citybuilder? These are the kind of games that let you zoom out, take a breath, and slowly shape a world of your own. On Xbox Series X, three recent entries into the genre — The Wandering Village, Kingdoms and…
Drill Core — Dig in!
You manage an entire team of workers who head down into an ever more expansive mineshaft to gather resources that you’ll use to upgrade your mine platform. Once you’ve gained enough, your platform will take your team deeper to gather ever…
Fighting the Baddies in Hidden Cat Outlaws
That's right, it's another hidden object cat game. This time Hidden Cat Outlaws takes us to the wild, wild west — think Sheriff offices, carts dotted around, lots of sand. As with most hidden-animal games, there's a lot of familiar…
Broken Arrow – A High Detailed Look at Modern Warfare
To say that Broken Arrow has been long awaited would be an understatement. For around six years fans have longed to get their teeth into its highly detailed, modern combat RTS, and I think the wait has definitely paid off, with this, the…
Nightmare Frontier gives Wild West Worries
In what is probably my favourite inclusion in Nightmare Frontier, each party member has their own fear which will manifest in the battles you take them into. This means you can tailor your run to face the enemies you want to fight and have…
Darktide Arbites DLC Brings The Lex to The Lexless
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has just had a brand new face let loose on its dismal, lawless world and who better to bring that law back into the light than the Emperor’s lawbringers: The Adeptus Arbites. Arbites, for those unfamiliar, are…
Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition is one of the deepest love letters ever…
Like any good long-read, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition reveals its rich characters, detailed plot and expansive narrative over a protracted period of time. It doesn’t chase trends or try to reinvent the wheel — instead, it…
Meow Moments: Celebrating Geeks & Athletes – Not sure if they go together
If you looked at my recent coverage and asked me if I only play hidden object cat games, I would tell you that the reason I'm covering so many is because they're the main thing that Robin and I play together on slow mornings! Meow Moments:…
Hello Stranger – Chat Russian Roulette
Obviously though, this is the internet, so things go wrong for Cam quite quickly when he comes across a chat partner who manages to hack his smart home and traps him in a deadly online game.
Idle Waters is a tranquil masterclass in idle desktop games
From farming to fishing, idle desktop games have been making a massive comeback over the last year, and Idle Waters is the next one that you should definitely pick up. Every so often a game comes along and does something so clever that you…
Steel Seed seeks humanity in metallic form
Storm in a Teacup’s Steel Seed is a game that wears its ambition like a battle suit — sleek, stylish, and just a little bit intimidating. Set in a post-cataclysmic world where machines have inherited the Earth, this stealth-action adventure…
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping – Simply Quackers
Story-based adventure games have always been something that interests me. While I usually prefer to play more high octane shooters and others, there is always something very comforting about playing a game intended to be taken at a walking…
Empyreal is a cerebral third person looter-RFG with big ambitions
There’s no denying that Empyreal makes a strong first impression. From the moment you step into its fractured, floating world, it’s clear that this is a game with vision. The skybound setting — all shimmering islands, ancient ruins, and…
Splitgate 2 – Now We’re Shooting with Portals!
Well now, Splitgate 2 has certainly come out to one hell of a reception eh? Ian Proulx, CEO of 1047 Games who develops Splitgate 2, came onstage while at Summer Games Fest and boldly told us that the FPS market is stale, and he's sick of…
Panzer Corps 2: Elite – Ghost Division kicks off the Elite section with a rush
The beginning, and building, of one of the most terrifying German Panzer Divisions of WWII.
Becoming Saint puts you on a challenging, micro-skirmish crusade for canonization
Dominate the Italian Peninsula as you quest for canonization in Becoming Saint. There have been some excellent small-scale skirmish games released over the last decade, from Bad North through Into The Breach to the fantastic, and recently…
Nedra — Cosmic Horror at The Price of Your Sanity
Nedra is the work of developer Davit Andreasyar and their small team, it follows the story of a Soviet-era Antarctic station which has been overrun by frozen horrors, as well as its looming, ever-present structure. When I first looked into…
Siren’s Rest is a quiet return to Still Wakes the Deep’s Familiar Waters
Returning to the North Sea oil rig that served as the haunting stage for Still Wakes the Deep, the Siren’s Rest DLC offers a more introspective, subdued experience than its predecessor. Where the base game was a masterclass in…
Cook, Serve, Forever – Is it delicious?
The first thing that struck me about Cook, Serve, Forever was that there was a plot, complete with visual novel style cutscenes. You play as Nori, a girl living in a down-on-its-luck town in the near future. Having been taught how to cook…
We Who Are About to Die — Glory, Gore, Greatness!
We Who Are About To Die is a gladiatorial roguelite. It's also the work of an incredibly small team, with most of the duties handled by developer Jordy Lakiere, who also self-published it. Considering the team size, it's mighty impressive,…