Video Game Reviews

With deep and meaningful strategy games making the leap onto consoles in unprecedented numbers recently, players have never been so spoilt for choice. Even so, relatively few strategy games have the same grand ambitions as Age of Wonders:…

Anonymously share your worries with strangers and receive support in Pop Cannibal’s Kind Words — a unique experience that feels like a warm hug.

Devolver Digital are becoming connoisseurs of a specific type of character — a red blob with two appendages. Earlier this year we had the wonderful Pikuniku where the titular Piku had only two legs. Now we get Heave Ho where the character…

Weighing in at just over 10GB you wont need to delete too much from your storage to accommodate Bulletstorm and, with its arcade score-like approach to FPS, it's small enough to retain a place in your catalogue as you keep coming back for…

When it comes to modern board games there are few as iconic as Gloomhaven. Weighing in at over 10 kilos of physical mass, and boasting one of the largest boxes you could imagine, it’s also the one game that is perhaps most suited to a…

Another food game, this one with some music to make it stand out. Cook To The Beat is a simplistic mobile cooking game where you are basically just chopping up a bunch of ingredients that sort of make sense to a recipe, trying to get the…

A Short Hike is a brief, delightful game about a young bird hiking around and exploring a summertime island with bad cell phone reception.

Waking up in the midst of an attack on her village, a white haired, elf-like young woman named Ada sets off on a quest for revenge. With a mythical white elk in tow, Decay of Logos presents a cross between open-world RPG mechanics and…

The bombs have fallen, everything is mutated to heck. But yet in Atomicrops you're strapped with a gun and a farm to tend. Bird Bath Games' Atomicrops has got more than just fruit and vegetables as collectables, objectives and currency — it…

Those first few scenes could have easily taken an hour what with me soaking in nostalgia. The level design, whilst again familiar to me, has been rendered in 4K with a great use of colour. The levels not only look great, and clean, but it’s…

There is some scope to explore, as the woods are fairly open, but the game has some tricks up its sleeve as you go on. As things progress, and the horror of the witch becomes more apparent, the forest becomes more confusing. There are…

A pesky knight has stolen away all of your ingredients and valuables, and you — as the titular Witch — must fight against hordes of enemies to recover them. Your goal in Witcheye, however, is much more challenging than one might think. You…

A Roguelite goes heavy metal with Awesome Games Studio's recently released Fury Unleashed. Guns, gore, and guitar galore.

Journey through a wonderful tribute to retro adventure and role-playing games as you restore the kingdom in Knights of Tartarus. Knights of Tartarus is a role-playing game where you must enter the underworld to fight an order of knights,…

Creature in the Well adds pinball elements to a top-down hack and slash dungeon crawler about a robot simply trying to serve his purpose in a post-apocalyptic world.

A turn-based, single-screen, local co-op game about battling flames, breaking through walls and saving the incapacitated, disaster-prone residents of a world where every house is on fire.

Red Matter offers you the unique opportunity to become a spy for the Atlantic Union and infiltrate an abandoned Volgravian base on Rhea in order to find and decipher top secret documents to discover the truth of what really happened in this…

You take on the role of Michael Wilson, the president of the United States of America ㄧ something that he constantly likes to remind people ㄧ who is forced to fight to reclaim his country from a military coup led by his villainous…

The Forbidden Art takes the form of a 2D platformer with a fully fledged 3D world map to explore across five beautifully realized levels, each lovingly representative of the biome in which they are based.

When I heard about Sagebrush releasing for consoles, I just had to play it. I had seen people talking about it on Steam for a while and a ‘walking simulator’ with a compelling story involving murder and mystery is right up my street. …