Video Game Reviews

The real meat of the game is in the missions which are a turn-based grid affair, and are oh so enjoyable to play! Characters have a set of action points (AP), usually 100, used for moving and attacking. You’ll have your Daughters dashing…

In a deliberate, continuing avoidance of the more classic, Western Front battles, The Artistocrats has, with Red Star, started a trilogy of expansions for Order of Battle which focuses on the Soviet's battles through WWII. One of the main…

I don’t know about everyone on Earth, but when I go into a donut shop,I don’t really care about where the donuts are physically locked in the box. I guess things would change though if I had teleporting donuts, like in Donuts Delivery. …

It’s sometimes difficult doing outdoor work on your own, but in Ollie & Bollie: Outdoor Estate, you have a fun friend to help you out!  It’s all in a day's work, and on this big plot of land, there are quite a few different chores that…

Nordic Warriors follows the steps of real-time tactics classic Myth. We have been playing it.

Sagrada's stained glass windows take on a more calculated form with careful dice placement.

Summer in Mara successfully imitates the dream of living in a tropical paradise, a potentially stereotypical view that the Caribbean-like way of life is one of relaxing, sun-filled days with very little worry or concern entering the fray.

The peak of rank-and-file warfare during the Napoleonic Wars has always been an area of great interest to me, and whilst the number of Imperial atrocities committed during that age is enough to raise more than a few eyebrows, I still love…

When I was a wee kid I had a demo for a game called Pontifex. This was my intro into bridge building games — a genre I hold dearly to this day. Throughout the years I had issues with getting a hit of bridge-building since nothing seemed…

I’ve always been a fan of the humble point and click adventure, but in recent years, it hasn’t felt enough to deliver the same tried-and-tested gameplay that made this genre so popular during the nineties. Beholder 2 is essentially a point…

A YouTube ad plays on my PC screen - ah wait, it’s a double ad. I stare at the screen, then look at my phone. Almost instinctively, I open Perfect Pizza and make another pie to give to a customer waiting. The game is simple, you make the…

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling tells the saga of a misfit gang of three bugs with a huge adventure in front of them. Using the traditional Paper Mario visual style and fighting mechanics, it manages to both replicate the classic game…

I honestly can’t imagine a better title for a survival horror game than Dawn of Fear. I can only imagine the excitement around the development team associated with this game since I can’t help but feel that the title is the one redeeming…

If you can tolerate Project Warlock’s issues as I could, then you’ll be in for a brilliant throwback game that deserves attention. Great soundtrack, great visuals, and great combat, just let down by some technical issues. 

I used to watch a lot of Property Brothers back when I was in America, where it featured on HGTV each week. I love the dynamic between the two twins — one a real estate agent, the other a renovator — as they help couples and small families…

An emotional journey through the minds and misadventures of two schoolchildren, A Space For The Unbound - Prologue is a touching puzzle game. A Space For The Unbound - Prologue follows the story of two school children, one who is writing a…

Graphically the style forgoes the ultra-clean, high-resolution approach seen in other recent platformers, but instead utilises a hand-drawn effect and a somewhat faded palette reminiscent of early 1950’s cartoons and put to good effect in…

Have you ever had someone in your life that is out to challenge everything you seem to do? A rival, following you around forever, trying to beat you down? Well, in the small town of Snuggleford, Amy Cares has a rival with a storied history.…

When it comes to educational games the gameplay can be as simple as ABC, but rarely are they fun. Metamorphabet feels specifically made to solve that problem. Learning games are often not too engaging or fun, however, Metamorphabet brings…

Music can conjure up far more than memories, as Across the Grooves' protagonist Alice learns when she listens to an old gift from a long lost lover.