Video Game Reviews

With an interesting story, great narrative & quest dynamics, and hearty combat, there’s a lot to like about Yaga and plenty to have you return for at least a second helping

Chaos tavern, another PAX AUS highlight has you and a group of friends run a magical tavern

As a game, Valfaris wears its inspiration clearly front and centre from the get go: The heavy metal soundtrack, rich in electric guitar riffs, the names of the weapons of destruction you wield to exact your revenge and a protagonist who…

A giant, two-towered mansion stands on an island in a lake, a mansion, for some reason, called Tangle Tower. And inside, a body.

The call of Cthulhu is a hard one to resist, at least it is for me. When I see anything that resembles the Lovecraftian mythos I’m immediately interested in it. Whether or not I like it depends on the product of course, but when I say…

Welcome to Cybermonk. Power up your religion and fight against the heathens by sending terrifying lasers of death into your portal, charging up your religion to win. Playing Cybermonk at PAX AUS was great fun. Running around the small map,…

House of Golf takes the obstacle heavy mini-golf format and merges it with common household objects in a variety of room-themed locations for fast-paced pad swapping for one to six players

New Super Lucky’s Tale is a colorful platformer that brings out the best of the genre with a happy-go-lucky character and fun to play, well-designed levels, each with its own set of clever mechanics.

reky slides and colours its way to freedom with its quirky puzzles

When one door closes another opens, and if it doesn’t, just break it down. KillHouse Games has created Door Kickers: Action Squad, a side-scrolling retropixel shooter that may appear simple enough but actually contains enough strategy and…

When Leo, the local guardian god saves Yumo after a Chaos Beast attack in the middle of town, he accidentally transfers his fighting ability as well as his powers to transition between the realms to her

John Wick Hex is an action strategy game where the actions you make define a ballet of bullets, leaving many dead in your wake.

An RPG by ZA/UM—an artist-collective-turned-development-studio based in Estonia and the UK—Disco Elysium’s setting and lore is drawn from a custom tabletop scenario played by the group for the past seven-or-so years. Given an isometric…

Set in the wilderness of the fictional Great Bear Island north of mainland Canada, the first two episodes of The Long Dark set the story of how a strange geomagnetic storm hit and plunged the world into darkness. After much anticipation,…

Mable and the Wood is a platformer with a twist: you can turn into other creatures and use their abilities to help you fight and overcome obstacles.

It's morphin time! Morphies Law is a video game about shooting people to steal their mass for yourself. Fighting for a giant robot called your 'avatar', you compete in a variety of battle modes, invariably stealing mass to help your avatar.…

Synth Riders offers a unique approach to the rhythm genre with a fresh, new take on beat-mapped gameplay and a soundtrack that features some of the best tracks to groove to.

Into The Dead 2 works in pretty much the same way as the original, with you barrelling headlong into the undead hordes, only a handful of bullets to your name. You can control whether you run towards the left or right of the screen, fire…

Great for players of all ages and a welcome change from over complicated, ultra difficult, gore soaked realism, instead offering a charming, well illustrated and relaxing jaunt through a story laced with canine and feline based puns and…

In a very similar way to Celeste, Lonely Mountains: Downhill tells a story about persevering, only this time the way is down a mountain.