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Order 13 – Basket case
You’ll have a quota each day that you need to hit before you can progress to the next one. All of this is easy enough until you realise the warehouse is quite haunted. At first, it’s just dark, with spooky noises, and the occasional stray…
Sports: Renovations – From downtown!
You’ll clean up rubbish, break up junk items, repaint walls, and powerwash dirt. As is often the case, this sounds like it could get tedious, but the gradual improvement of the area you’re working on means you constantly feel like you’re…
Warriors: Abyss – Dynastic
When you complete a combat encounter, you’ll get to choose which path to take next, much like in Hades. Many of these will lead you to a tree which will allow you to form an alliance with one of your unlocked heroes. Each hero has a…
Spilled! – Oil tell you what I think of this
Aside from oil, you’ll also find yourself scooping up plastic bottles to take home. There’s a certain degree of physics here, with you needing to not overload your scoop or you’ll end up scattering those bottles everywhere, necessitating…
Mullet Madjack is the fast, fresh retro shooter that you need
Imagine a roguelite shooter that mocks the AI-powered, dopamine-fuelled world we’re heading towards with frightening levels of precognition whilst also simultaneously delivering exactly the shot in the arm that it claims all humans will…
Mini City Mayhem – Micro management
As you build, the population will increase until the city is full, at which point people will start to become impatient about how crowded it is. If they run out of patience, you lose. The only way to bring things back under control is to…
Dead Letter Dept – Dead on arrival
Over the course of the game, the things you are sent to copy become more unhinged, including correspondences between family members, text from historical and medical textbooks, and even warnings sent directly to you. You’ll get strange…
Songs of Conquest offers turn-based Might and Magic in spades
With a modern, beautiful take on detailed pixel art, a fantastic pace and gameplay that feels like a fantastic balance between old-school and modern, Songs of Conquest flies out of the blocks with an impressive and surprising performance.…
Urban Myth Dissolution Centre – Mythbusters
The challenge isn’t what draws me into Urban Myth Dissolution Centre though. The characters are really enjoyable when they interact with each other. I particularly liked the moments between Azami and Meguriya, with the latter seeming to…
Cats and Seek Osaka – Find Cats in Japan
If you know Robin and I, then you'll know that we have been blasting through every single type of Hidden Object cat game that we've seen appear on our Xbox. This time, we took on Cats and Seek Osaka. This hidden cat game isn’t exactly…