Video Games

Willow Guard feels like it combines a bunch of different elements; an action RPG with deck building and a strong narrative drive, that takes you through a world where animals are the dominant, intelligent creatures and must survive against…

Built like a classic point and click adventure game, but with a new story, Wildwood Down is a funny, coming of age style story game about a bunch of teenagers on Spring Break! Making their way to Wildwood New Jersey, you play as Daniel, a…

Puzzles were equally frustrating as well, but not due to them being difficult as such. It’s often fairly obvious that combining something acidic with a padlock will allow you to open a door. The annoyance comes from how difficult it is to…

Miniatures is an artistic, thoughtful anthology of four games that touch on childhood experiences with deeper, darker undertones. I've played through the two-part demo of Miniatures a couple of times now, each time spending maybe 20-25…

Wizdom Academy is a story-driven school-building game, where you need to take on a bunch of management roles to ensure your newly established wizarding school is successful, and that your students go on to live amazing lives outside of the…

If you are not familiar with Sokpop, they are a collective of game developers who create bite-sized, short experiences in small amounts of time. Recently, however, they started working on Grunn, which is a longer form game! This is quite…

I love ducks. I love salami. Clearly, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami has somehow hit a weird cross section of things that I am interested in. This narrative-driven detective game has you becoming the Duck Detective, who has run out of…

Sorry, We're Closed takes the corridor crawling, limited ammo and puzzles of 90s survival horror and gives it a grungy, punk twist. There are a lot of people out there with very fond memories of the Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Parasite…

This wordplay ties into pretty much every element of Cryptmaster. Combat is driven by it and takes place in real time, with your heroes having cooldowns after each word. Type “hit”, and your warrior will strike a blow, whilst “sing” will…

As I get older, I find that I am rarely surprised by new games — I’m not saying that everything is a rehash of something that came before, but I guess I feel that we’re running out of themes, mechanics and settings and that leads to…