Video Game Previews

SurMount is a physics-based platformer that allows you and a friend to take on climbing a massive mountain together! You can also play single player mode, but when I spent some time with SurMount at GDC, I wanted to focus on the two player…

Subversion is to game design as plot twists are to narrative, not necessary ingredients, but when done well they can completely transform a game into something that'll live on through player memory and conversation for years. Nectarmancer…

Tracks of Thought is an adorable, charming game about being a little bug, looking to have a lovely train ride. Your day was off to a bit of a hard start, as you had nearly missed your train just to find that it was actually delayed. There…

Summer is in the air, so it feels like a good time to release couch co-op games for us to play with our families during the summer holiday! Manic Mechanics is one of these chaotic, fun, co-op games where you must fix up various vehicles as…

Simulators have allowed people to take on a variety of different roles, adapting when new jobs seem to appear or come into existence here and there. Sticky Business allows players to start up their own sticker shop, where they can create…

Moving out of your family home, away from your comfort zone, to a new town when starting a new job is already a daunting task. In Fishbowl, it’s also the start of everyone needing to stay home and work from home (though it does not state it…

If you are a fan of the fighting style in Sega's Yakuza series, then indie game Troublemaker which takes inspiration from Yakuza but allows you to play as a highschooler, might be one to check out. Troublemaker: Raise Your Gang is an…

With so many platformers coming out every year, it's hard for one to stand out. Don Salmon manages to do that by fusing elements of both horizontal and vertical platformers with a beautiful lilac and green-led colour palette. Godot Engine,…

Toy Tactics is a tabletop twist on real-time tactics, complete with goofy physics, and pieces that wobbly rather than march. The biggest problem with a game genre having had its heyday a few decades back is that there's always a massive…

Co-op roguelite meets one of the Brothers Grimm's best-known stories in Seven Dwarfs: Legends Untold. Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee, or the verb-y ones, are out though. Instead Surprised Turtles' dwarves have names that…

Take on the role of Yi in their arduous journey to take revenge on the Nine Sols, a mysterious group of beings that have built a whole world around their own preservation. Did you play Sekiro? Well, whether you have or haven't it's become a…

There are a lot of top down, arena fighting games that can have you facing off against another player, controlling your own spaceships. Many of them have a pixel style, upgrades, and differences between the different machines. However,…

I don't know about you, but one thing that I definitely don't want to find myself having to do the next time I'm at the office is fighting my way out of a laboratory that's being overrun by an expanding, deadly lab-created viral horror born…

One of the most underused but effective design choices in action games (and cleverly used in puzzle games) is a transforming and evolving main character. In Munch it's core to the action-adventure experience. Imagine yourself as a blob, or…

Setting up frontier settlements is probably already hard enough as it is, but in Circle of Kerzoven you also need to factor in the fact that the weather, flora and fauna are all set on following their own patterns regardless of your plans.…

I feel like I played Super Meat Boy a lifetime ago as a completely different person. I remember the rage platformer well: I hated it. So when I saw Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine — a game that takes place in sort of the same world, I was…

Slice of Life adventure games are ones that I simply love. Creating my own little world, building up a town, and managing different characters always feels like a fun time. In Go-Go Town, you are able to build up your own small town, for a…

So the gameplay is really fun, the story is interesting in its own way, and all this is supported by wonderful art and great sound and voice work. The art in particular is worthy of mention as it’s absolutely gorgeous, giving me The House…

Bat Boy by X PLUS Games is an ambitious 8-bit side-scrolling tribute to some of the best platformers around.

Tin Hearts is a puzzle game all about time. Its story revolves around technologies ahead of their time, features a story told out of time, and you, yourself, have the power to pause, speed up and reverse the passage of time. When people…