Video Games

In For Sparta, a fast-paced, single-screen action-arcade game, you take on the role of the final Spartan in the battle of Thermopylae. That is about where the historical connections of For Sparta end. In fact, it would arguably be just as…

Five years after the start of World War II, the Third Reich continued their occupation of Europe. Allied forces decide to open a so-called “second front” in Western Europe to turn the tides of war.

SMG Studio has dropped a new DLC for Moving Out, Movers in Paradise, alongside the free Moving In update, and it's fantastic. Moving Out has been a staple in my household since it first released last year. Even though we are living in a…

Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends takes the magic of the comic and turns it into a fun-filled platformer packed to the brim with wonderment and awe. Exploring Slumberland as Nemo and friends certainly seems like a dream come true!

So the world is saved! The monsters are vanquished, villages freed and the evil wizard routed, it's time for the world to recover in Littlewood Now comes the fun part, making a new life. In Littlewood you wake up after your final battle,…

Team Ninja's Nioh 2 sees you taking up the mantle of a demon slayer, and uncovering your past along the way.

This visual style is an interesting element too, as the monsters you fight look absolutely beautiful, having that classic cartoon style recently seen in Cuphead. The enemies have a great deal of personality and are animated really nicely,…

Hitman 3 continues the freedom-of-choice formula that has made its series so successful and drops our clean-shaven anti-hero into a myriad of new environments and moral choices. Does he succeed in his mission, or does this third entry in…

Yupitergrad’s puzzles are mostly fairly basic but the action of solving them is very satisfying and getting a handle on the momentum physics suddenly becomes second nature after 20-30 minutes

Immediately drawing parallels with indie classics Inside and Limbo, Eternal Hope presents a somewhat more colourful premise than the gloomy grayscale approach taken by Limbo

Shadow awakens in a contained city of ruin, Mekacity; finding fallen clan members along the way to stitch together his future. Platforming through the city tempered by a slow burn of gameplay. Timed dash moves and bail me out airstrikes…

A new varied take on mech combat with deep customization and strategy mechanics, the timeline mechanic adds additional options to tweak, deploy and effect countermeasures at every turn and at each stage of an engagement.

Super Jetpak DX is a game where building your rocket and blasting aliens will help your astronaut get back to their home.

Having played the demo last year, I was excited to see more of what Developers Rockfish had to offer with their space shooter darling. Whilst their first outing had a focus on roguelike elements, Everspace 2 swaps this out for an open…

More recent tracks released by the developers; as either paid or free content; have become more complex and it’s clear the developers have taken a step back and looked at the progression of their player base

If you’re anything like me, there’s a good chance that nostalgic feelings often lead to bad decisions. Where video game choices are concerned, this is a frequent challenge that I face. In Commandos 2 — a game that I remember being…

When Poker Club renders correctly it’s even more unfortunate that the poker is only “OK”. The basics are there. Dealing, blinds, bets etc. etc. but there’s no feeling in it.

There was little room for careful positioning and picking my targets due to the sheer volume of stuff on camera. Off-camera too, as there were a number of times in which I was being attacked from off-screen without me being able to do…

Hidden Deep takes place in a remote, submerged, deep sea mining rig with the title screen depicting a small submarine transiting your crew to the facility. The eerie silence of the rig is pretty apparent and visually the style reminds me of…

Dash Dash World is a VR racing game that borrows from other kart racers, but at the end of the day, does its own thing, for better or worse.