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Aurora is a cute puzzler about meeting your guardian spirit
Play as an adorable person with a cute sprite in Aurora, a 3D puzzle game full of color. Exploring an abandoned temple, which has many locked off areas, each tucked away behind color based puzzles. Aurora caught my eye while I walked the…
Untitled Goose Game & Friends: The freedom of being a jerk
People very much enjoy schadenfreude. Be it a friend slipping on a banana peel, a character on TV getting their comeuppance or an enemy dying in a hilarious fashion. And video games, as an interactive medium, allow us to be the harbingers…
Cake Bash is a multiplayer pastry arena brawler
Become a cake and participate in various pastry-related, or sprinkle battling, mayhem in Cake Bash, a really fun multiplayer party game. Taking on various types of challenges against up to three of your friends, in Cake Bash's very colorful…
Spending an Hour Too Close to the Sun
Are these real people? Ghosts?! Surely such nonsense is impossible, but I saw what I saw dammit! Am I going insane? Is this ship a purgatory of some sort?
The Outer Worlds — 10 things to know before you start.
The Outer Worlds is big & scary, its complex, there are mechanics plenty and many players could invest a lot of time wondering the planets on offer whilst missing some of the most excellent things on offer.
You can take on puzzles or explore a world in Adventure in Aellion
Based around the concept of combining the wistful open worlds of the Zelda series with a multiplayer experience, Adventure in Aellion is an open world game full of puzzles and adventure, which you can take on alone or with a friend. …
A season as Leeds United in Football Manager 2020; New features and changes in review
People love rituals. Most of us have several — whether we know it or not. One of mine happens annually, when the release date for the new Football Manager game is announced and I feverishly prepare myself for what will be at least a…
Moving Out is like Overcooked but moving furniture
If you’re a fan of games like Overcooked then you’ll love Moving Out — a chaotic multiplayer where you need to move all of the furniture out of a house, in a selected amount of time and place them into a moving truck. I know this may not…
Monagerie is a tactical monster taming adventure
A retro, Pokemon inspired game with its own unique twists, Monagerie is a great RPG for those who are looking for something just a bit different. Monagerie is an adventure game littered with bits of story and lots of monsters that you can…
Three Days With The Beast Inside
The Beast Inside is a game I backed on Kickstarter around a year-and-a-half ago. Describing itself as a photorealistic horror game with a strong narrative, I was quite interested in it and backed it quite happily. Recently it received its…
Cat out of the Casket sees spectral felines hunt ghostly mice
When it comes to the afterlife, it seems like ghost versions of animals mostly get to do the same things as they did when they were alive. These basic concepts are just enhanced by their new spooky, ghostly abilities. In Cat out of the…
Aaero2 — Secure the skies and shoot to the beat
Action and rhythm is always a fun combo, especially when the music is super lovely. In Aaero2, you’ll need to have your ship follow the wavelengths of the music, while keeping an eye out for enemies to destroy. Aaero2 fixes up the controls…
Audysseys — Epoch: A Tribute to Chrono Trigger
Epoch: A Tribute to Chrono Trigger is just that: an amazing tribute to the soundtrack of one of the best RPGs of all time.
Top 5 Indie Games with Halloween Updates & Events
Halloween is here, literally. It's today, and I am sure you'll still be in the Halloween spirit this weekend! Whether you are too old to go out trick or treating or not, there are plenty of games that currently have festive, limited time…
16 Spooky games from the Steam Halloween Sale
Over on Steam there are, once again, loads of games on sale. What better time to pick up a bunch of new games to fill up your Steam library? We have picked out some particularly spooky games that you might enjoy just a bit more this time of…
Stones of Solace has you leaving something behind.
When it comes to the end of our time, it is no longer about what we can do, but about what we choose to leave behind. In Stones of Solace — a beautiful, contemplative game — you must make a ritual about the things you must leave behind.…
Top 5 Not so Scary Halloween Games
I love Halloween just as much as the next person! I like dressing up, getting candy, decorating the house, and, well everything pumpkin themed. What I don’t enjoy is the horror aspect of Halloween. Each year I am presented with many, many…
The best retro games for Halloween
There are plenty of horror games out there now, thanks in part to the likes of the Resident Evil and Silent Hill series, but what about before the dawn of the survival horror genre? Back when pixels and sprites ruled our TV screens? I’m…
The 5 best spooky PC games to play for Halloween
The spooky season is finally upon us! Scary movies, trick or treating and of course horror games. So if you’re feeling brave this Halloween, here are some spooky PC games to play during spooktober. System Shock 2…
Jack Axe — Axe throwing adventure
After all of the men have left the village, Jack has found an axe. Axes are only meant for men, but this axe is special and has given Jack unique abilities. She’s now trying to leave this town and figure out what has happened in the world…