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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown offers turn-based cartoon combat in small slices
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a visually and mechanically striking reinterpretation of the TMNT formula. Rather than the arcade brawler that we’ve become used to, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is much…
Shuten Order – The power of god!
Playing as the founder of the titular Shuten Order, disaster strikes from the moment the game opens. You’ve been murdered, seemingly by one of the five leaders of the different ministries of your order. Lucky for you, you’ve been revived by…
Magnate: The First City will monopolise your time, but watch out for the crash!
As much a satire about house prices, economic boom and bust and even the world's most famous capitalist board game, Magnate seeks to build up and then destroy all you know about city-building. Designed by James Naylor and published by…
Ready or Not isn’t hard to find, but it might just be a hidden gem
Ready or Not on Xbox Series X feels like a deliberate throwback to a more considered era of tactical gameplay. It tasks you to slow down, think, and act with precision — and while it doesn’t always hit the mark, it’s certainly aiming at a…
Back to the Dawn asks all the big moral questions, but is it an enjoyable experience?
Back to the Dawn is a game that sneaks up on you. At first glance, it looks like one of a thousand pixel art throwbacks — the kind of game you might expect to find buried in a Steam sale bundle. The longer I played it, though, the more I…
Cyber Clutch – Neon sprint
Car designs are fabulous, and the tracks feel like bonkers cityscapes in a technology-gone-mad future and I really like how the art style comes together as something really fitting for the type of game the devs are going for.
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar – Another lovely escape
It is an incredible year. A new Rune Factory and a new Story of Seasons? Wonderful. The gist is that while there are some caveats, Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar is another lovely farming slash life simulator from the original creators of…
Cable Guys Masked Worker Holdem’ Review
The Squid Game masked workers have become an icon in modern day television, with the simple yet memorable costume that's incredibly recognisable. Now, thanks to Cable Guys, they can be in your very own home, helping you by handling your…
Wyrmspan – Dragons everywhere!
Wyrmspan is the latest game in the ever expanding Wingspan flock. It challenges you to take on the role of a debuting dracologist seeking to entice dragons to take up residence in your freshly excavated cosy caves as you compete for the…
Don’t Fall For It is a trivia game with a tumbling tower twist
Trivia games come in all shapes and sizes these days. There's absolutely no denying that it's the easiest way to get into a living room board game collection, or under the tree at Christmas. Don't Fall For It combines trivia with a fun,…
My Friendly Neighborhood – The Not-So-Friendly Survival Horror
My Friendly Neighborhood is a mascot horror survival game featuring a wide cast from a fictional, beloved children's show — not too dissimilar to Sesame street or even Five Nights at Freddie’s — with you playing as Gordon O’Brian, the…
Worship – Occult Hockey Brawling
It turns out, I’m actually quite good at running a cult. Not exactly a calling I’d have imagined, but a calling nonetheless. Thanks to Worship, I’ve finally realised my potential at leading followers to their demise as I fling otherworldly…
Parking World – Not a space game
Once you have an idea on how to get everything working, this can be quite fun to mess around with. You start by laying out a ground floor using foundations on which you can put parking spaces. That’s not enough though, as cars need to be…
Whimside is a creature catching, and breeding game with a lot going on
Capture, nurture and breed cute creatures as you explore the whimsical world of Whimside. The idle desktop game movement is now in full swing, a year on from Rusty's Retirement we're at a point where there are some serious choices to be…
Backroom Company – A New Twist in No-Clip Hell
Backroom Company takes your usual chaotic, backroom adventure and adds in a slice of corporate greed. With a great mix of puzzles, looping gameplay and randomly generated maps it has a lot to offer. When approaching Backroom Company I was…
Discounty puts you at the helm of a supermarket franchise expanding into a new town
A month doesn't pass by without some twist on retail simulation or slice of life city-to-town life releasing. Discounty takes you away from the big city, to a job in a town that's been left behind by the world. Ah, that moment as you first…
Vicious Gardens is a malicious, set-building, gardening showdown
Race to grow and harvest from your garden all while trying to outmanoeuvre other gardeners in Vicious Gardens. Vicious Gardens challenges players to quickly build sets of plants in order to fulfil orders, however the same plants that allow…
Edifier R1 – Open your ears
Whilst the Edifier R1 feels a little odd at first, it doesn’t take long for you to stop noticing that you have them on, and it was only when I went to adjust them that I realised where they were positioned. Equally, they’re surprisingly…
Vantage challenges you to survive together on a mysterious planet
In Vantage you and your crew mates have crash landed on a strange and mysterious planet, each of you at different locations. You will need to work together, describing what you see so that others can offer expertise and advice as you…
Killing Floor 3 – Corporate Zombie Slaughter
After many years of slaughtering zeds through Killing Floor 1 and 2 we've finally come to the third installment: Killing Floor 3. It comes complete with buckets of limbs, blood and gore as well as a variety of new customisation options and……