Video Game Reviews

If you played the likes of Warcraft or Command & Conquer back in the day, you’ll feel immediately at home. The controls are exactly what you’ll remember, from contextual right clicking to numbered control groups, everything feels like…

Ratatan is a rhythm roguelike that has you build a small army of cute musical creatures that react to your lead in a musical adventure to take down hordes of enemies, room by room, on the journey to find their goddess.  You can either take…

Action, Rhythm and Arcade Racing: Music Drive has it all. Arcade racers are almost a thing of the past nowadays, left behind as we continue in our mission for more realistic simulators. Forza, Gran Turismo and the Formula 1 games are among…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a visually and mechanically striking reinterpretation of the TMNT formula. Rather than the arcade brawler that we’ve become used to, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is much…

Playing as the founder of the titular Shuten Order, disaster strikes from the moment the game opens. You’ve been murdered, seemingly by one of the five leaders of the different ministries of your order. Lucky for you, you’ve been revived by…

Ready or Not on Xbox Series X feels like a deliberate throwback to a more considered era of tactical gameplay. It tasks you to slow down, think, and act with precision — and while it doesn’t always hit the mark, it’s certainly aiming at a…

Back to the Dawn is a game that sneaks up on you. At first glance, it looks like one of a thousand pixel art throwbacks — the kind of game you might expect to find buried in a Steam sale bundle. The longer I played it, though, the more I…

Car designs are fabulous, and the tracks feel like bonkers cityscapes in a technology-gone-mad future and I really like how the art style comes together as something really fitting for the type of game the devs are going for. 

It is an incredible year. A new Rune Factory and a new Story of Seasons? Wonderful. The gist is that while there are some caveats, Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar is another lovely farming slash life simulator from the original creators of…

My Friendly Neighborhood is a mascot horror survival game featuring a wide cast from a fictional, beloved children's show — not too dissimilar to Sesame street or even Five Nights at Freddie’s — with you playing as Gordon O’Brian, the…

It turns out, I’m actually quite good at running a cult. Not exactly a calling I’d have imagined, but a calling nonetheless. Thanks to Worship, I’ve finally realised my potential at leading followers to their demise as I fling otherworldly…

Once you have an idea on how to get everything working, this can be quite fun to mess around with. You start by laying out a ground floor using foundations on which you can put parking spaces. That’s not enough though, as cars need to be…

Capture, nurture and breed cute creatures as you explore the whimsical world of Whimside. The idle desktop game movement is now in full swing, a year on from Rusty's Retirement we're at a point where there are some serious choices to be…

Backroom Company takes your usual chaotic, backroom adventure and adds in a slice of corporate greed. With a great mix of puzzles, looping gameplay and randomly generated maps it has a lot to offer.  When approaching Backroom Company I was…

A month doesn't pass by without some twist on retail simulation or slice of life city-to-town life releasing. Discounty takes you away from the big city, to a job in a town that's been left behind by the world. Ah, that moment as you first…

After many years of slaughtering zeds through Killing Floor 1 and 2 we've finally come to the third installment: Killing Floor 3. It comes complete with buckets of limbs, blood and gore as well as a variety of new customisation options and……

Dead by Daylight continues to churn out content, and as you may have read from my previous review of DbD and its Five Nights at Freddy's chapter, I am a huge, huge fan of this franchise. I'll do my best to set my bias aside in this review,…

Sulfur — the highly successful dungeon crawler roguelite, not the element — has recently had a new update focused on melee weapons. Four new weapons to be exact, which grace our favourite cultist-fighting priest’s hands and can now be found…

9 Kings simplifies base-building down to an almost entirely pure form by bringing in auto battler mechanics and silly numbers. As regular readers of the site will know, we zig-zag the lines between board games and video games on the…

I think it’s the sort of game where you need to go into it blind and experience all of its insanity with as little background knowledge as possible.