Video Game Reviews

Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery takes you into the mind of an artist, looking to focus and work on her own artwork. Her day to day life is simple; she sketches, she paints, she eats and listens to music. All of this feels very…

I’ve often bemoaned the fact that console gamers never seem to get “proper” versions of grand strategy games. There are probably two or maybe three reasons for this — the first and second are because of how consoles are made; with limited…

Cantata is a celebration of the decades-long strategy genre, taking a lot of notes from popular real-time and turn-based games and wedging them into a tight 9-point (currently 3-point) campaign that chronicles three varied factions smashing…

With all this said, it’s nice that Roguebook does enough to differentiate itself from the pack, with characters having wildly different cards that can be used, and the ability to attach gems to cards to change their utility. There’s also…

In Early Access over on the Epic Games launcher, Pinball FX is Zen Studios' latest release. With it they've tried to change up and enhance the way that people collect tables, but it comes at a strange time and in a strange way. Zen Studios…

A great war has ravaged the world, reducing even the finest city to rubble. In Kapital: Sparks of Revolution you're the new mayor of a freshly-liberated town left reeling in the wake of destruction and you've got the unenviable task of…

All family isn't who you think they are. Figure out who tried to poison Uncle Marcus in this FMV mystery by uncovering all the family secrets.

I don’t have a great relationship with the roguelike genre. The idea of repeatedly throwing myself at a variable (and often unfair) task over and over again, usually for marginal gains (if any) and always for the reward of doing the same…

The gameplay itself reminds me very much of classic Fallout games, or Desperados if you remember that wild west adventure. You’ll move around an over world map by selecting where to go before exploring your destination. There are towns,…

Festival Tycoon sees players building and then running their own music festival, responsible for everything from band line-ups to accommodation to man management of clean-up crews. Keeping staff, sponsors, artists and punters happy is a…

The sheer amount of fascinating shapes and colours that will appear ahead of you during your journey is amazing. Over the course of your three-or-so hours with the game, you’ll visit underwater worlds, lands in the sky, and a black hole in…

In medieval-set real-time strategy Diplomacy is Not an Option, the peasants are revolting and unfortunately for you, you're the target of their discontent. Sliding into the 'base-building meets tower defence' space repopularised by They are…

When I think of iconic modern board games, Blood Rage occupies the top spot in terms of the genre that is affectionately known as “Ameritrash". This area control game from legendary designer Eric M. Lang and big-budget publisher CMON is…

More than a few games have tried to gamify spelling and typing over the years, but most of them, like Typing of the Dead or Scribblenauts, have it more as an input mechanic than the actual core of the game. Grammarian LTD has you take on…

The police will try to smash you off the road, making your life more difficult whilst other road users will undo your good work by turning the road grey again. In a neat twist though, if you drive near them, they’ll become colourful too,…

I don't know about you, but when I first heard about Tentacular, a game where you're a giant betentacled beast, I knew that I had to play it. VR seems to be a perfect for anything with even a slight chaos factor — we play games to do things…

Open-world crafting and survival games can be daunting at the best of times, but when you take the standard approach to resource collection, base building, survival and ultimately combat and then put it in space; you have an entirely more…

I'm not sure where to even begin with Aztech Forgotten Gods, so let's start at the beginning. Almost two years ago Lienzo studio teased an announcement for an alternate reality future of Mesoamérica people. Personally, the project having…

Beat Arena grants you the opportunity of playing in a VR rock band with classic tracks from Konami titles and the Bemani games.

Puzzles in a controlled, scientific facility and a wisecracking robot might feel like a familiar combination, but Unbinary shouldn't be passed over because of its familiar-sounding set-up. VR, in its modern form, has now been around for…