Video Game Features

You're Spawn 99, AKA The Grim Reaper, working for Fate themselves. Your job in Death and Taxes is simple, decide which people in awful situations don't quite make it through. Placehodler Gamerworks' presskit says that Death and Taxes has…

In a giant floating city made of giant lanterns, Zig makes their way through folding cities and twisted alleyways — exploring the city of mortals and djinn — to try and find the 30 birds. I don't know about you, but sometimes I look at art…

Co-operative gaming has been getting a renaissance of late, but Tick Tock: A Tale for Two takes local co-operative and applies it to the puzzle genre in a fantastic way. Same screen gaming has been making a massive comeback over the last…

It all starts when a falling cat doesn't land on their feet. There are not many people out there who would have wanted Fluffy dead, but it's up to Inspector Waffles to figure out who is responsible for the murder. Inspector Waffles is a…

Following the death of her grandfather, Crowns and Pawns' Milda is expected to embrace her newly discovered family secret and embark on a dangerous quest to uncover the story of 'the king who was never crowned'. There are dozens of types of…

One of my favourite games on show last year at Pax, Operation Armstrong is an amazing asymmetric stealth/haxor game where one person in a VR headset is an elite secret agent sneaking through a robot infested moon base to complete your…

The Crimson Diamond is an EGA text parser adventure game where you play as a trainee geologist turn detective called Nancy Maple.  Nancy Maple is simply sent up north to a ghost town called Crimson in Ontario. There has been a massive…

Have you ever clonked your partner in the head with a spanner which you were also using to propel yourself? No? Well firstly, your weekends sound very boring and two, now you can! In Heavenly Bodies you and a friend are old school…

Exploring a beautiful environment with your flaming sword in hand, Kogarashi, a student project made by a team while they attended DigiPen Institute of Technology, Bilbao, has you fighting your way through frozen enemies. Kogarashi is a…

Wailing and flagellating with your tongue

When working for a boss who has no care for you, your safety or even paying you, it’s hard to actually want to go to your job. But when money is very much needed, you’ll have to go. In Sumatra: Fate of Yandi — a narrative adventure game…

We take a quick look at the Nintendo Indie World showcase and choose some of the hottest picks!

There is a huge flux of dating games out there lately; and thanks to that you can now date swords, fridges and all manner of spooky creatures. But, rather than romanable kitchen appliances, Because We’re Here takes you back to the early…

How hard can it be to put a few goldfish in a bowl and charge people to look at it? 

In Ghost Grab 3000 ghosts are flooding the screen, and the only way to beat them is to grapple, chain and zap them.

A long, long time ago, I played Toodee and Topdee as a part of my Ludum Dare coverage. The game, at the time, was just a demo which contained a very unique concept; two worlds, which you are able to interact with through playing as one of…

Cat Tap is a simple game. You get to be a cat who gets to knock various items off of a table. I have a cat, his name is Pancake, and he only knocks over boxes so he can lay in them, opting to try and eat whatever food is left there. But, I…

Apple Arcade is a unique take on the subscription service model which brings the month-to-month model to mobile.

Cultivate: Before Time is a narrative based story game, full of mystery and time travel. Visiting your sister Eugenia Potts ends up being much more than you bargained for, suddenly forcing you into a strange turn of events. You seem to have…

When I first booted up Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition on my Xbox One X, I’m not sure what I was expecting. Maybe, I don’t know, something more than I got when I first booted up Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition on my Google tablet back in…