Video Game Reviews

The Invincible challenges you to rethink human dominion. It's a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world. Developed by Starward Industries, it challenges you to explore a barren planet and face unforeseen threats. The Invincible is…

The setup is at least interesting, with you playing an unnamed investigator entering a digital recreation of the family home. An AI has analysed the house itself and recreated what it’s discovered for you to go in and explore without…

As regular readers will know, I’m always the first to put my hand up to review strategy games that make their way onto my console. The latest of these is Rising Lords — a game that feels every bit as though it is still only halfway through…

The Sims 4 community is really dedicated to the content that is being created for the game, especially as The Sims 4 is now a free game, with tons of different add-ons that you can purchase to change your experience. Recently, the community…

In Estate Agent Simulator, you unsurprisingly play as an estate agent, however — as per recent simulator games — there’s a lot that you can do outside of the core game loop including some RPG mechanics and, bizarrely, crypto trading. Estate…

You play as Jim Baylor, a former police officer who was set up by a corrupt force and sent to prison. Upon your release, you find that the city’s crime has escalated considerably, and you join a friend’s private security company intending…

Technology races ahead, authoritarianism is at a concerning high and activists are being suppressed. Solace State is a narrative adventure game that puts you right in the thick of a political hotpoint. It's easy to look at Solace State's…

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out on the PC and PlayStation 5 for months now, and is already being declared as Game of the Year (and perhaps Best Game Ever) by large sections of the community. I’ve been waiting with bated breath for the Xbox One…

You play a police detective who is trying to solve the case of a seemingly kidnapped woman appearing in the middle of the road. You’ll find the perpetrators by interviewing people in FMV interrogations, looking through the police database,…

Mistward is a systems-based strategy game that can be played in a variety of ways. This unique edge to the game comes from it being a relaxing game that allows the player to travel at their own pace. Mistward takes place on an island…

Like an open-world Fire Emblem, Wartales focuses on character development through a series of complex, interlocked systems. But, unlike the classic series from Intelligent Systems, Wartales relies a lot more on its world and the characters…

Enemies glitching around as though they’re at a different frame rate to the rest of the game are more of an issue, and your guns sometimes firing three shots, sometimes one, sometimes not at all are far bigger problems. In fact, during one…

Take to the skies in Wild-West-inspired, steampunk RPG Age of Grit. Age of Grit drops players straight into the shoes of Jebediah Rockwell, an ex-military cargo-ship captain who is firmly established in his Wild-West-inspired world. It's…

Lost Islands is an open-world survival game relying on your skills to successfully explore and explore in dangerous terrains. Lost Islands is a single-player survival game created by the indie studio Glitch. You start out your journey on a…

The issue here is that due to it being the same game, everything that was irritating about the original is still there too. Those things that made for entertaining Youtuber bait a decade ago aren’t really as much fun to play anymore. If…

Axis Football 2024 is a groundbreaking American football game, looking to take Madden's crown. When it comes to American Football games we aren't exactly spoiled for choice, much like football/soccer major franchises and yearly releases…

In real terms, Stuffed plays an awful lot like Call of Duty Zombies but in a procedurally generated map. Each attempt, and indeed each night, takes place in a slightly different version of the house, with Ellie’s room in a different place…

Here it is, the dream started by Red Faction: Guerilla, anger at Lego, kicking down a sand castle, all realised in glorious voxels. If you can see it, you can blow it up. Teardown delivers handily on the core idea that collapsing buildings…

Radiation, bandits and flesh-eating ghouls. Come visit Zero Seivert's Zakov today! Please note: Rad pills not supplied. I’m going to admit to this right out of the gate: I have a love/hate relationship with hardcore extraction shooters. Do…

You’ll want to make your way around the map quickly at times too, as occasional tasks will pop up that need to be completed in a time limit, much like the game this DLC is based on. These tasks simply want you to reach a certain spot on the…