Video Game Reviews

You are Nina Pasadena, Insurance Commando. It’s your job to stop pirates from robbing the feline-crewed spaceships cruising the infinite, and you’ll quickly figure out that you can achieve this in some of the most absurd and drawn out ways…

Have you ever had a moment in your life that you look back on and thought about how you could have done things differently? If you were given the chance, would you want to see how much your life would change if you altered a significant…

Moorhuhn Kart 2 - Or Crazy Chicken Kart 2, as it’s called outside of Germany — came to me after a conversation with a friend. They mentioned that Moorhuhn was very popular in the early 2000’s, and after some digging, I found some quite…

Nico Saves The State slid into my inbox this week, and it initially made me suck air between my teeth. I'll be one of the first to admit that puzzle games, platformers and me usually don't mix. I can rarely handle anything more complicated…

To keep things on theme, the resources you generate are sometimes a bit more unusual. Instead of money, you have faith to spend on constructions, and whilst wood is a standard building material, the only clothing you can offer is robes and…

Some hidden object cat games simply have you trying to find as many cats as possible. Hidden Kittens: Kingdom of Cats is one of those types of games, where you are presented with a large, primarily devoid of color picture and need to just…

Each stage begins with a short story about someone who has done something terrible and has come across this very deck of cards. The deck will allow them to change what they did, but only if they complete a ritual correctly. There are hints…

Wadjet Eye, a developer that any fan of pointing and clicking should keep close to their hearts and wallets, has returned with another gracefully told story about flawed humans. Old Skies is, it seems, a less flexible game than previous…

From the outset, Blades of Fire feels unashamedly old-school. It opens with a cutscene that makes little to no sense, and the game takes an awfully long time to bring its memorable, interesting storyline to bear.  That’s not really what…

You have the option of playing either Great Britain OR Italy. M'kay?

Dead By Daylight is entering its ninth year, a surprisingly long time for a live service game in today's day and age. It offers something special to the video game market that means it has, essentially, no competition. Texas Chainsaw…

Control works very nicely too, with everything being done on your phone screen. When moving, you drag your finger across your screen and you can see the path your character will take, following your finger around the hexes. It’s a little…

Son of a Gun explodes the top-down shooter format into the modern day. Top-down shooters are something that I really don’t get a chance to play much, so when Son of a Gun dropped into my lap, it was a pretty neat reminder that when they’re…

The art direction in Soulslinger is excellent. I loved going into these desolate weird west adjacent places, from standard canyons and streets to demon ravaged farmlands and miasma poisoned townships. Every new location looked impressive…

You can’t be away from a heat source for more than thirty seconds before your display starts getting distorted as you suffer from the effects of the weather. I can understand why this is done when the play area is so small, but trying to…

As far as remakes and remasters go, we’re now firmly into the realms of remasters of re-releases of remakes that often came out ten or more years ago. This concept is strange to me, since whilst I often feel like I’m still a spritely…

But then the house changed, with rooms being added and entirely new floors appearing. The first time this happened, I genuinely started second guessing myself and thought I simply hadn’t spotted that door, but then more and more turns up,…

For the last few days, I’ve been searching the darkest corners of the internet for my 2013 review of the original Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine. Alas, I can’t find it anywhere, but let me summarise it for you — back then, there were a lot…

I quite like the mechanic of some monsters mutating and reviving after death unless you use your knife on them. This reminds me of the Crimson Heads from the remake of Resident Evil, with you needing to use your serum loaded knife if a body…

I describe Centum as being more akin to a visual novel, as really there aren’t any serious puzzles to solve, inventory items to manage, or information to carry from area to area. This isn’t a knock on the game as it’s designed in this way,…