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Project Warlock — Killing Time
If you can tolerate Project Warlock’s issues as I could, then you’ll be in for a brilliant throwback game that deserves attention. Great soundtrack, great visuals, and great combat, just let down by some technical issues.
Property Brother Home Design — I miss American TV
I used to watch a lot of Property Brothers back when I was in America, where it featured on HGTV each week. I love the dynamic between the two twins — one a real estate agent, the other a renovator — as they help couples and small families…
A Space For The Unbound – Prologue dives into dreams
An emotional journey through the minds and misadventures of two schoolchildren, A Space For The Unbound - Prologue is a touching puzzle game. A Space For The Unbound - Prologue follows the story of two school children, one who is writing a…
Skelattack — Difficulty Spikes, Literally
Graphically the style forgoes the ultra-clean, high-resolution approach seen in other recent platformers, but instead utilises a hand-drawn effect and a somewhat faded palette reminiscent of early 1950’s cartoons and put to good effect in…
Dr. Cares – Amy’s Pet Clinic — Become a vet with a rival!
Have you ever had someone in your life that is out to challenge everything you seem to do? A rival, following you around forever, trying to beat you down? Well, in the small town of Snuggleford, Amy Cares has a rival with a storied history.…
Metamorphabet spells fun
When it comes to educational games the gameplay can be as simple as ABC, but rarely are they fun. Metamorphabet feels specifically made to solve that problem. Learning games are often not too engaging or fun, however, Metamorphabet brings…
Travel Across The Grooves
Music can conjure up far more than memories, as Across the Grooves' protagonist Alice learns when she listens to an old gift from a long lost lover.
Pax Nova takes 4X from settlement beyond interstellar colonisation
In the biggest 4X games your scale never shifts — in Civilization you conquer the planet, in Stellaris you conquer the stars. Pax Nova allows you to go from conquering a single planet's surface to controlling the whole system. A few years…
Iron Danger is a fantastic puzzle game dressed as an RPG
Rewinding time is a complete game-changer in tight, tactical RPGs — it's also the core mechanic in Action Squad Studios' recently released Iron Danger. I remember staring at Iron Danger while at Gamescom a few years back. Every time that I…
Shantae & The Seven Sirens — Whip your hair back & forth
As with many games of its ilk, and in the vein of its predecessors, Shantae & the Seven Sirens has players advance through areas toward their goal but more often than not return several times across the story as new abilities unlock new…
In Chicory: A Colorful Tale you get to paint the town red
There exists a world where a single artist wields the power to define what everything looks like through the use of a giant paintbrush. But, what happens when they go away, taking the color with them? Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a brilliant…
Pick Up The Pieces Of Evan’s Remains
Evan's Remains is a gorgeous pixel puzzle-platformer that boasts an intriguing storyline.
Europa Universalis IV: Emperor brings the focus back to Europe
Alongside the long-awaited 1.30 Austria Update, Europa Universalis IV has received its next expansion pack in the form as Emperor, a DLC focusing on revolution, The Holy Roman Empire and reinvigorating the Catholic Church. For me, Europa…
WHAT THE GOLF? — Tee time
Golf is great in theory, but awful in practice — you get obscenely rich people playing on giant waste of space, discussing who knows what in between swings. This is why golf games are great — the same idea with no space used and no rich…
Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated is a blast from the past
When I saw Spongebob Square Pants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, I instantly recognised the game. I was suddenly thrown back to memories of my younger brother, gliding around on Patrick or Spongebob’s tongue, hitting tikis and…
Fight efficiently in Monster Sanctuary to expand your team
When it comes to exploring new lands and taking on monsters I quite like battling and collecting them. Monster Sanctuary allows you to not just hatch creatures from eggs but also to level them up and use them to fight other creatures around…
Before I Forget — Memories in Watercolour
Videogames often place us in roles where we play super-powered heroes, warriors, or mystical beings. Before I Forget places you firmly in the role of an older lady, Sunita, who is dealing with early-onset dementia. The story that unfolds is…
Warface: Breakout — Resting Warface
If this sounds like a single-game mode from Counter-Strike, then that’s because it is. What I’ve described above is the entirety of Warface: Breakout, and during my time playing this with our own Alex, we couldn’t quite understand what…
Inkulinati is a turn-based combat inspired by medieval manuscripts
In Inkulinati by Yaza Games, draw your way to victory on medieval manuscripts — now available to back on Kickstarter!
HopBound — A nice friendly game about rabbits
Things get brutally tough as you go on, to the point with this being nigh-on a ‘rage game’ — games that tend to lead to players rage quitting due to the difficulty. In Darius Guerrero’s games, there’s often a purpose to this that ties into…