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Evergate — Falling with style
Evergate is a tough platformer that pushes players to make split-second decisions in order to survive in a beautiful but dangerous hand-painted world.
Bugsnax is an adorable game for all ages
Bugsnax is a great experience, and all three of my kids loved it too. Even my wife was enjoying watching me play it. The names of the bugsnax reminded her of the fantastic Viva Piñata series. I cannot recommend this game highly enough, and…
Lost Cities converts the Golden Age of exploration into a head to head duel
Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve been playing more and more games with just two players — primarily with my wife and one of our children. Whilst many games work with two players, relatively few multiplayer games scale down well, and…
Steam City Chronicles: Rise of the Rose — An almost unplayable mess of tedium and tasteless fan…
Set in a steampunk, corporate dystopia, Steam City Chronicles: Rise of the Rose is a turn-based strategy from FeelThere that sees the player take on the role of the leaders of a rebellion. Guide heroes and militia through the neon-Victorian…
Star Shaman — Magically Mundane
Star Shaman is a VR experience that showcases a brilliantly colorful art style that punctuates its unique and sophisticated characters and has you blasting boxes to bits with your shaman powers.
Fat Stacks can make some delicious sounding pancakes!
I make pancakes every single month. Sometimes, we add berries, sometimes we add sprinkles, sometimes chocolate… In Fat Stacks, you hope to add those yummy toppings while your “friends” add burnt pancakes, bugs, raw meat, and more to your…
Spiritfarer and The Warm Hug Of Death
I wish that I had paid more attention to the marketing. I have yet to play a game with metroidvania elements that I have liked, sadly. Hollow Knight to Super Metroid, I have bounced off them all. I thought Spiritfarer would be the one, with…
Samurai Jack: Battle through Time — Extending the finite
So where does Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, the latest collaboration between Adult Swim Studios, Tartakovsky and Valhalla Game Studios take our intrepid hero if the story has been told?
Kraken BT Kitty Edition — So many colors!
When it comes to attending work meetings or events where I need to judge on camera, as well as being in pictures looking slightly “gamer”, the Kraken BT Kitty Edition does it’s job on looks alone. My headset is wireless, bright pink, and…
Whether you’re sick of politics or not, Democracy 4’s Early Access is going well
With some of the political farce of the previous decade still very fresh in their minds, there are probably more than a fair few people tired of hearing the word Democracy being flung around. Democracy 4, and its predecessors, are a…
The Signifier — Lucid Dreaming
The world has advanced; leaps in artificial intelligence and technology have enabled humans to map the human brain to the point where it’s possible with the right hardware to delve into the memories within.
Frozen Unicorns is a Charming Idea, but it isn’t much of a game…
When it comes to choosing board and card games, I’m always on the lookout for options that might appeal to me, my wife and our kids equally. This is a heck of a challenge, and so far only the likes of Jurassic Snack and Zoo Run have managed…
Arrow: Charge S — Compact and useful
When it comes to the supplied charging stand for the Nintendo Switch, you are able to charge your console and the two controllers attached to it, but charging the rest of your controllers isn’t supported. If you, like me, tend to have a…
Out of the blue, Granblue Fantasy: Versus is an incredible looking 2.5d fighting game
Whilst I’m not overly familiar with Arc System Works games in general, Granblue Fantasy: Versus recently caught my eye thanks to its incredible visuals and silky smooth animation. At first I thought I might be stepping into a fairly average…
The Pursuit of Happiness is a gloriously thematic worker placement game
As our lives become more and more complicated, we often seek simpler, more straightforward pleasures — things like drawing with our children, or taking a walk with friends. In a related parallel, I seek release from playing board games, and…
Superhot: Mind Control Delete — Shoot and shatter
Superhot: Mind Control Delete is the third game in the series and while it sticks to the tried and true formula of smashing red enemies made out of glass, it expands the frantic firefights to a ballet through randomly generated rooms full…
Root’s digital adaptation is Dire Wolf Digital’s finest work to date
It’s no small thing being asked to produce a digital adaptation of one of the most popular new board games of the last few years, but Dire Wolf Digital (who previously gave us the excellent Raiders of the North Sea) have really gone to town…
Space Crew is a space opera simulation strategy built on Bomber Crews’ bones
Runner Duck's Space Crew shares more than a few similarities to its predecessor Bomber Crew, but the (hyper)jump to a space setting does wonders for their refined systems. Sci-fi set Space Crew and WWII-straddling Bomber Crew have a lot in…
Tropico 6 on Switch shines in handheld mode, but let’s leave it there…
Wonders never seem to cease when it comes to what can be achieved on Nintendo’s Switch. For me, being able to access a pretty much complete edition of Civilization VI will be tough to beat, and yet developers continue to push the envelope…
Curse of the Dead Gods — The Armoury
The most recent update, The Armoury, adds a host of new gameplay mechanics that will change the way you set up for a run. You can now have multiple weapon altars set up before an exploration, giving you a choice of starting equipment, as…