Video Game Reviews

Truth be told, I didn’t attend my prom. it was of no interest to me to go and see people from school, who I didn’t like and would likely never see again, all while listening to music I didn’t like. But thankfully Beautiful Glitch has let me…

Drug Dealer Simulator fails in its premise as an enticing game experience. Despite an interesting idea and an addictive rpg mechanic (no pun intended), players will tire from an unrealistic world with repetitive mechanics that never truly…

Communicate beyond words in card-based narrative title Signs of the Sojourner and learn the lay of the land and its people.

In Other Waters is a narrative game about a xenobiologist studying a new planet’s ecology by exploring the flora and fauna of its oceans. The further you dive, both in the waters and the story, the darker the ocean becomes.

Coming fresh off the nostalgic high that was Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap, LizardCube have not only delivered an addition to the series; but one the fans will look back on extremely fondly as a standout entry

When I was a child, SpongeBob SquarePants was the cartoon of choice. My first alarm clock sang the F is for Friends song, my toy chest was covered in foam character stickers, I had little toy figurines — I had a lot of Spongebob stuff. When…

The loop of “Get Quest, Collect Item, Get Reward” is the main draw of Quest Hunter and can be quite additive with a “Just One More” style that eats away your spare time.

When it comes to survival games, you can choose from several kinds of zombie apocalypse, you can escape from despotic robots, and you can even survive freezing temperatures or explore a raging river. One theme that has seemed to be…

Among all the roguelike games that I’ve been hoping to see make an appearance on my Xbox One, Sunless Sea is perhaps right at the top of the list. I love the idea of exploring an expansive sea filled with mystery and danger, and with what…

A Summer with a Shiba Inu is a visual novel by Quill Game Studios that combines a dystopian world with Shiba Inus.

Does the Journey to the Savage Planet: Hot Garbage DLC offer new heights for our spacefaring hero’s adventure or just end up feeling mostly recycled?

When I think of board game adaptations, I put them into two camps: those which retain a near-exact replica of the game that inspired them, and those which simply take the IP and produce a completely different sort of game. Wartile, which…

A new entry in the long-running Pong series has released in the form of Pong Quest, but as you might imagine from the name, it's not just a game of a ball and two paddles now.

The environments are very hard to navigate due to the camera. It’s often difficult to tell if something is an obstacle until you run into it, and considering how fast-paced this is, that’s pretty much a death sentence. Enemies can often…

Having played about five hours of Children of Zodiarcs, I feel like I’ve barely even scratched the surface. This Kickstarter funded tactical role-playing game from Cardboard Utopia hits all the right notes for me, with deck building, dice…

I’m definitely no expert in it, but I do enjoy some Japanese culture. Give me some ramen and ill scoff it down in seconds. Good anime? I'll binge watch it all day. But good Japanese games are my bread and butter. Whether they are from…

Tharsis presents an interesting take on board game mechanics in a mission to Mars in video game format. There's cannibalism too.

While it should probably pain me slightly to admit it considering the game I’ve just spent the last six or seven hours with (Vampire: The Masquerade - The Coteries of New York), I’ve never really been a fan of digital graphic novels.…

It all begins with you Immediately thrown into a tutorial so that you can gain your certification as a Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician (FART).

Have you ever had that experience where you expected to spend maybe ten or twenty minutes with a game, only to realise that several hours of your life have disappeared and you’ve now completed it three times in a row? I have, and I hold…