Video Games

For the last few days, I’ve been searching the darkest corners of the internet for my 2013 review of the original Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine. Alas, I can’t find it anywhere, but let me summarise it for you — back then, there were a lot…

I quite like the mechanic of some monsters mutating and reviving after death unless you use your knife on them. This reminds me of the Crimson Heads from the remake of Resident Evil, with you needing to use your serum loaded knife if a body…

I describe Centum as being more akin to a visual novel, as really there aren’t any serious puzzles to solve, inventory items to manage, or information to carry from area to area. This isn’t a knock on the game as it’s designed in this way,…

Just as you become familiar with one mechanic, it offers you the next one with a subtle cough and a thrash of a power chord.

I never played Journey to the Savage Planet, but if my experience with Revenge of the Savage Planet is anything to go by, I may well have missed out.  Revenge of the Savage Planet is the product of Raccoon Logic, a newly minted developer…

If your parents were anything like mine then, as a kid, they used to tell you various little white lies that you can still remember even now. You know the ones: Don't go swimming thirty minutes after you've eaten, carrots are good for your…

It's odd to instantly go from the German Blitzkrieg to the American (defense ). All new equipment troops, and strategies, but, "Hey... let's just throw you into the deep end".

If you played the original, Monster Train 2 is more of that but with a few new twists. For the uninitiated though, your job is to complete eight fights on the way to the centre of heaven, picking up new cards and abilities between each…

Where once the squad-based tactical shooter was a rarity, I feel that these days I’ve been inundated with them. This is a good problem to have as long as new entries to the genre, such as Chains of Freedom, pass the simple “is it as good as…

While I much prefer the challenge of reviewing console-based strategy games, the dedicated Romanophile in me does occasionally surface in order to pick up the occasional, exceptional PC based strategy game. The last of these was 2019’s…

Roguelikes used to be somewhat of an enigma to me. I never used to see the appeal of smashing my head against a wall over and over to progress in small increments. Then I got shown some very good ones, such as Slay the Spire, Cult of the…

From the moment Clair Obscura: Expedition 33 boots up and almost without fault across its 25 to 50 hour runtime, the player will be treated to a modern masterpiece that wows with its visual and aural delight — often in spite of its macabre…

Now, the previous game had similar themes, but this was presented in a much more linear way. Your fox would go from level to level, completing traversal puzzles in semi-open areas. You could explore to find secrets if you wanted, or you…

I quite enjoyed this if I’m honest, as some of the puzzles later on become quite convoluted thanks to messy spreadsheet formulae being all over the place — meaning you need to work out which cell will affect which other cells.

Jagex have hit out with a surprise new adventure set in the world of Gielinor with Runescape Dragonwilds. It's an exciting new survival, crafting adventure set within the world of popular MMORPG Runescape and was shadow dropped into early…

Games like Blue Prince make me wary. With a 90+ rating on Metacritic, this is a game that has met with widespread critical and mass approval, yet it left me feeling a little bit underwhelmed. Blue Prince is a puzzle game first and foremost,…

Ironhive is a deckbuilding, engine-builder all about building a city and surviving a dying world. A deck- and engine-builder, Ironhive has you trading up citizens for buildings and resources to keep your city strong and to survive a dark,…

In CarGo!, you and your co-op buddies are tasked with delivering goods from location to location, with a goal of selling a product for profit. Make enough profit and you’ll earn stars that will unlock more levels for more silliness. You’ll…

I first became interested in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream about ten years or so ago when it had its first re-release on Steam (having originally been released almost thirty years ago on MS-DOS). I didn’t persevere for very long when I…

Those familiar with Slay the Spire will know exactly how Nif Nif works. You go from node to node, taking on basic enemies or elites using attack and defence cards. When you aren’t doing that, you’ll be visiting shops or dealing with events.…