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Go-Go Town! has you creating a cute world
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…
Shattered Heaven Demo – No Stairway?!
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 hits one out of the park
Bat Boy by X PLUS Games is an ambitious 8-bit side-scrolling tribute to some of the best platformers around.
Tin Hearts is much more than a simple puzzle game about toy soldiers
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…
King of the Castle challenges a monarch to control hundreds of rebellious, player-controlled nobles
King of the Castle is a multiplayer narrative game, one optimised for large groups of players, or massive Twitch audiences. Narrative and Multiplayer aren't two things that tend to go hand-in-hand when it comes to game design. In fact,…
Space War Battle Cadet is more than meets the eye
When it comes to space shooters, Space War Battle Cadet might look like a pretty simple game. However, there is far more depth in this space shooter that starts to reveal itself as you play. You see, Space War Battle Cadet is a vibrant,…
Polterguys is chaotic multiplayer fun
Being a goofy little ghost who can possess basically everything seems like a really easy way to live. That is, until King Thing finds out, and wants to put a stop to all of your fun! Polterguys is a fun, quick multiplayer game where you and…
Hamster Playground is adorable, wholesome fun
You know those children who really want a pet hamster, but they don't get one because they don’t have the space or somebody knows that they won’t be as fun as the child thinks? Hamster Playground is an answer to this; it’s a wonderful, well…
Sonic Frontiers EGX Hands on – A Brave New Adventure
Since its gameplay reveal back in June, Sonic Frontiers had fans understandably concerned for the blue blurs' newest outing with what looked to be a lacklustre new addition to the storied franchise, and I count myself amongst those people.…
Plunder Dungeons has procedural fun
Plunder Dungeons has you making your way through a mysterious dungeon, where you cannot really see what you are up against until you are right there battling against them! In this game, you will be collecting cards and then using them to…
A preview of Prehistoric Kingdom
We took a while to build our very own Prehistoric Kingdom, and there's a lot to love in this Early-Access title.
Let’s Cook Together 2 brings back chaotic cooking!
If you read my content, you'll know I love cooking games and I love couch co-ops. My favorite type of game, then, is really a mix of them both. Previously, we've dived into Let’s Cook Together — ultimately, Dann and I fulled completing the…
The Fabulous Fear Machine is all about managing both expectations and fears
Power, limitless resources, revenge against those who crossed you? The Fabulous Fear Machine will grant whatever your wish, for a cost. Wow. I've been really interested in The Fabulous Fear Machine since I first saw it, there was something…
Backbeat gives sliding puzzles a musical twist
When it comes to great puzzle games, you need either a set of great game mechanics or a really good theme. good theme. Developer Ichigoichie showed that they have a deep attachment to music as a theme with their last title, Hexagroove, but…
Orebody: Binder’s Tale is a NES tribute to the platform-shooter
A classic platforming shooter, Orebody: Binder's Tale follows the story of a scrappy robot fighting its way through hordes of robots to avenge its mentor, all developed totally within the confines of the NES. For a lot of people, their…
Project Warlock 2 (Early Access) – (War)Lock and Load for Some Retro Shooter Carnage
Project Warlock 2 aims to take players back to the shooters of yesteryear. With its blend of retro shooter gameplay and a few clever twists, developers Buckshot Software aim to capture the same blood, bullets and badassery from the classic…
Birth is a calming puzzler about building a new friend
Have you ever found yourself in a strange place, alone and lonely? Even though you know that the world is just as weird and strange as anybody might find you, you just can't seem to connect with others. In Birth the solution is simple, to…
Ozymandias is a classy, condensed, classic 4x experience
Sometimes a game comes along and boils down familiar tropes into something so simple that it almost seems brand new, only for you to blink and realise that this is actually a journey back to the very origin of the trope. Ozymandias does…
SChIM is all about a shadow frog just trying to go about its day
Jump from shadow to shadow as a Schim, a shadow-surfing frog, in the cool 3D puzzle game of the same name. I don't know about you, but with me there are games that simply keep cropping up. You spot them early in development and then they…
Hexahedra is a carefully designed logic puzzle about creating precisely prepared crates
In the future when you need to ship something intergalactically you'll do so using appropriately labelled, painted, stamped and marked cubes. In Hexahedra you're the person who codes the machines to create those crates, although there's a…