Video Game Reviews

Anyway, spooky things do happen, and you’ll be under threat from them before too long. Keeping the doors closed is easy enough as there aren’t any shenanigans involving them beyond you opening or closing them to pass through. The jukebox,…

Speaking as someone who played and enjoyed the original card game, I can say with confidence that Set a Watch on iOS is a faithful, polished adaptation of Rock Manor Games original title, and it’s one of the rare digital board games that…

Misery is a look into a Stalker-inspired world filled with monsters, anomalies and sometimes the odd polkadot-clad dwarf, brought to you by Playtypus Entertainment. It really does put you into a miserable situation where you relive the…

Spongebob Squarepants: Titans of the Tide is a single player platforming adventure game that is highly reminiscent of the PS2 classic, Battle for Bikini Bottom. Featuring all of the beloved characters you know well from the series it’s jam…

As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny.

Escape From Tarkov has been in active development and beta for around ten years now, with the Beta being in a playable state for the good portion of that featuring events, quests and a lot of chaos as you try to Escape the region safely one…

MicroMacro: Crime City was already a standout in the tabletop space — a small, affordable cooperative detective game that turned a sprawling black-and-white city map into a living crime scene. Designed by Johannes Sich and published by…

Even though we never quite got as far as reviewing it, My City was already a quiet triumph in the tabletop space — a legacy game from Reiner Knizia that managed to distill decades of urban development into a breezy, tile-laying campaign.…

Overkill’s The Walking Dead was a bizarre child of Overkill and 505 Games, published by Starbreeze. It featured a four player co-op adventure that had you explore various fictional areas of Georgia as well as maintaining various safe zones…

A healthy blend between Stalker and Escape From Tarkov, Active Matter encompasses the grit and fear that both games instil into you as a player, but pushes you to explore deeper with a more distorted and warped world that begs to be…

Kingdoms and Castles lulls you into a false sense of security. You start with a single keep, a handful of peasants, and a patch of fertile land. The music is gentle, the visuals are bright, retro and deliberately blocky, and the early game…

If you’ve played the previous games, then you likely know what to expect, and if you haven’t then starting on the third game seems a bit silly. For the uninitiated, you’ll need to watch the video tape and pause it at certain points to go…

If you’re a fan of classic arcade shooters — the kind that throw you into a cockpit, flood the screen with bullets and dare you to survive — then the twin release of Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol.1 and Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol.2 is a…

It Takes A War is the second game from Thomas Mackinnon after the hugely popular The Corridor. It’s marketed as a Co-op tactical shooter but if you’re familiar with The Corridor — and watch the trailer — then you should know you’re sure to…

It’s not everyday you get your hands on a new Gameboy game, but D*Fuzed is just that. From Incube8 Games, your journey with your new bomb defusing buddy, Deef, begins as you control him and help rescue his friends while a big bad boss tries…

The purpose of ROAM agents is to investigate people for anything that might be opposed to this regime by diving into their memories to find any evidence of wrongdoing. Daniel’s initial investigation into someone seemingly stealing from work…

Exploring the park itself is quite nice. Whilst you do have a map that includes your exact location on it, it feels as though you can get lost due to how wide each area is. Gamers have an instinct to follow the path that is least obvious…

Fairly by the numbers so far, but the issue is that the combat is so utterly lacklustre. It doesn’t matter which weapon you use, nothing feels like it has any impact at all thanks to the outrageously floaty feeling controls and impossible…

The campaign spans from the summer of 1944, after the liberation of Paris, to December of the same year.

Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition marks the first time Obsidian’s 2006 CRPG has made its way to Xbox consoles, and for many fans of classic Dungeons & Dragons games, that’s a big deal. Its built on the dense and often unforgiving…