Video Game Reviews

Night Book was filmed entirely during lockdown, with the actors not actually doing any scenes in person. In terms of developing an FMV game, this is really quite an impressive challenge to undertake, and I have a lot of respect for Wales…

Omno's lush landscapes make traversal of its various biomes a wonder to behold. Journey with Omno as you make your way towards the Light.

Boyfriend Dungeon is a weirdly wonderful game — wonderful character design, quirky dates, a solid soundtrack.

You are a Viking at the helm of a longboat, commanding your crew with music instead of commands. Their rowing is ever paced by how hard you rock. You barrel down seemingly endless fjords, banging out tunes with your hammers. This is…

Metavaxx, from French developer duo PUNKCAKE Délicieux, melds together classic Minesweeper tactics with shooters in a quest to create the most effective vaccine.

Death’s Door showcases a best-of in the action-adventure genre. As a crow reaper I faced challenges that never felt insurmountable. A ghastly manor tried keeping me away from its basement. I mazed my way through a temple in ruin. A climb to…

Behind the Frame was quite a new experience for me. Often when I hear the words interactive fiction or story-rich I tend to check out immediately; Which is to say I’m not a fan. Yet something drew me to this particular offering from Silver…

For anyone who follows my writing, you would be forgiven for thinking that Imagine Earth should be right up my street. Attractive, clever and rammed with content, this global-scale economic and environmental strategy simulator tasks players…

You probably know that we play a lot of couch co-ops in our household. With a family of five people who love games, we spend quite a lot of time playing video games together and one of our favorite things to do is play couch co-op ones.…

Weaving Tides ties together the story of Tass, and his dragon Kilim in a world of full of fabric and magic.

Yes, Sunless Skies is a rogue-lite, and a hard one at that, but not in quite the same way as many. Your death doesn’t reset the game, rather you create a new captain, who follows your legacy by claiming some of what you’ve lost before…

YUKI introduces a unique premise, a bullet-hell roguelike that has you directing your character by holding it in the air like an action figure.

The content drop includes a handful of songs across the band’s portfolio ranging from tracks taken from the bands 2015 album - , one from the 2012 album “Panic” and up to 2019’s Chronologic

You are a nameless hunter who travels from their aerial base to a variety of dinosaur infested islands with the goal of hunting the biggest dinosaurs you can find. There’s no explanation for any of this, so just have at it!

Graphics are good but it’s the scaling that’s most interesting. Grabbing a ship and moving your hands apart — like stretching dough — zooms in. It can either get you in on the action or be used to investigate enemy ships and show where the…

I like to think that reviewers such as myself keep an open mind. After all, games are very rarely made by people who don’t care about the subject matter — especially not when you’re talking about independent games that are created outside…

Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos is a long-awaited sequel to ADOM, but how well does it build on the classic, dungeon-crawling roguelike formula? The original ADOM, Ancient Domains of Mystery, was released a long, long time ago. First…

It’s as if The Legend of Zelda and Dark Souls shacked up and decided to create something with the exploration, wonder and scale of Hyrule but with the enemy difficulty and punishment factor of Lordran

Boomerang X is a heroes' passerby-tale of too little too late. You swing around arena style levels. Plucking the chords of a mythical instrument to upgrade your boomerang, to then slow-motion your way behind enemies to expose their…

Whether it’s zombies in DayZ, robots in Generation Zero or oversized aquatic horrors in Stranded Deep, the survival genre is well and truly thriving. With so many themes already covered, searching for inspiration must be difficult — and…