Video Games

Over the course of about six hours, Carrion will desensitize you to all normal human emotions and actions. This is a game that makes it so easy to slip into the squelching tentacles of its otherworldly protagonist that when you put the…

The Last Campfire is a game about rescuing lost souls on their pilgrimage, finding your own purpose and finding your way home.

Cardaclysm starts when the local Sorcerer meddles with a summoning book and tries to enslave four magical beings to his will, he underestimates their power and releases them onto an unsuspecting world

Best Friend Forever by Starcolt is a visual novel that combines a dating simulator with a dog owner simulator.

As the story goes on, you’ll find that your choices make both small and large differences to the subsequent scene. Whilst you’ll still reach the finale regardless of your decisions, there are four different endings. You’re encouraged from…

There’s enough differentiation in the formula to keep genre fans occupied but quality issues may put players off repeat playthroughs despite the customisation options available to them

Seven years on from the release of Rogue Legacy it has a sequel. As Rogue Legacy 2 launches into Early Access it's time to find out if the developers can strike gold twice within a genre that they helped define. I've been thinking about…

Little Town Hero has one of the (if not the most) complex battle systems around today. It’s not a pick up and play sort of game and many Pokemon players drawn to Game Freak’s new RPG will likely walk away due to both difficulty and…

Paradox Interactive's long-awaited, medieval grand-strategy sequel is upon us. With Crusader Kings III the developer's face a challenge; how do they successfully build on a game which ran for 8 years and featured over a dozen expansion…

Colony Siege mixes tower defence with bits of other genres such as real-time strategy. We have been playing it.

The titular Drakes are less dragon in appearance and more vegetable (being based on Mandrake roots) and have a Tamagotchi-like dynamic to them. That's what Drake Hollow is built around.

Have you ever felt like you could have done a better job than the people who made Jurassic Park but don’t have the serious dedication to clone dinosaurs from DNA? Well, now you can prove it to all your friends in Parkasaurs!

The bright, utopian veneer presented by Union City quickly fades as you dig deeper into some of the narrative. Underneath it, the Council starts to come off as a big brother, almost totalitarian threat hiding beneath the surface dispensing…

It’s kind of known now that my time consuming media as a child was both limited and observed. I was not allowed to watch Samurai Jack — probably due to Aku looking like a demon, or the amount of violence. Samurai Jack: A Battle Through Time…

Surviving in the cradle of civilisation, or trying your very best to not screw up evolution for everyone.

As (just about) the main tabletop reviewer here, my attention is often more on paper and card than it is on digital games. When a video game chooses to root itself firmly in board game mechanics however, my interest is always piqued. Faeria…

With its power-punk rock duo setup, No Straight Roads comes out of left field with an amazing blend of action, music, and platforming to create a stunning game that will keep your toes tapping along to the violence of bashing robots to the…

Just as I think that there are enough arena fighting games, then someone brings a style I just can’t say no to, a theme that I just want to try, and Boomerang Fu was suddenly downloading, waiting to be played. The first thing I love about…

Even if the combat were fully functional, there would be little narrative incentive to pick this game up again after setting it down.

With some really stellar tactical action games already out on Nintendo’s Switch console, 1971 Project Helios was always going to need to find some way to differentiate itself. At face value it might appear to do just that, with an…