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Tennis World Tour 2 — Grand Slam or Double Fault ?
Looking beautiful, sounding great and with an authentic feel to it, Tennis World Tour 2 is an excellent take on the Tennis circuit whilst the addition of the card mechanic offers further strategy to a mainly action based game.
Star Wars Talisman — The Force is strong in this one.
Beautifully illustrated with plenty of the lore that makes the license so interesting but lengthy at times depending on the deck shuffle, Star Wars Talisman is more of what Talisman players love wrapped in the high quality package we’ve…
Pacific Rails — On The Transcontinental Railroad
Vesuvius Media’s Pacific Rails takes us back to the American Transcontinental Railroad — a great feat during a historical time.
3 Out of 10 — Not as good at The Witcher 3
The game plays out mostly in cutscenes, interspersed with exploration and mini-games. When exploring, you’ll often need to find a specific item to use or person to speak to by wandering around the small environment you’re currently in.…
Start a (very slow) new life in the woods in Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
Sharing your new land with marauders, giant spiders and wood stealing wolves. While the game offers a lot of challenges, pacing really puts a damper on your experience in this survival management sim.
Flow Weaver — Sci-Fi Fantasy Escape Room
Waking in a cell situated in what looks to be a castle tower, you are quickly introduced to the flows of magic in this dimension. Given your mystical training it’s possible to weave these flows to your advantage to solve a number of puzzles…
Can’t Drive This — Building tracks like Wallace and Gromit
The driver’s job is to drive as far and for as long as possible, without their car exploding due to travelling too slowly, or falling off the track to their death. The builder’s job is to construct the track in real time using square tiles…
Dorfromantik — Mindfulness and strategy collide in a peaceful building game
Toukana Interactive’s Early Access offering, Dorfromantik, is a peaceful light-strategy game about building up a small slice of bucolic heaven on your PC. Players must place down tiles containing different landscape elements and try and…
Breathedge — Space Survival Comedy
Recent survival simulators have explored forests, jungles and even the deepest oceans but Breathedge mixes things up in zero gravity from the beginning with a deep space setting.
Spacebase Startopia is a welcome return for an almost forgotten simulation classic
When intergalactic travel is possible, and many, varied races co-exist in peace, places need to exist for them to rest, recuperate and spend their hard-earned cash. In Spacebase Startopia you are a commander on an intergalactic rest-stop,…
Dandy Ace is a fast-paced roguelike that will put a spell on you
Some games have an incredible ability to drive you mad with anger and frustration, whilst also giving you some of the most satisfying victories, and still being so engaging that you can't help but have 'one more try'. Dandy Ace embodies…
Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure — Play pretend with Disney Characters.
If you are a fan of Disney, then you probably have seen most of the characters in Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure. This game, aimed at younger children, contains a bunch of mini-games that are from Disney movies like The Incredibles,…
Island Saver is a game all about saving money and the environment
Often when non-games companies produce games to promote their other services, sometimes they can end up being unfun and acting like a giant advertisement that is just slightly interactive. I always do an internal sigh when I start to open…
Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition — I didn’t even learn math.
To be completely honest, I have never played Frog Fractions before, because why would I have? I hate fractions. I am not a big fan of frogs, why would I want to play a math game. As it turns out, Frog Fractions has some bad branding, as you…
It’s a hard-knock life for Sir Brante in The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Think you have what it takes to turn a bad situation around? Take hold of Sir Brante’s life and you’ll soon think otherwise.
The We Were Here Series Bundle compiles the co-op escape room experience
Although three separate games, each game in the We Were Here series follows the same premise. You and your companion take on different roles and must cooperate together using whatever you can find to escape from your mysterious captors.
Nuts — No, I’m not going to make a joke
Nuts is a very pleasant, relaxing puzzle game that won’t tax you too much whilst giving you a nice experience. Its unique art style and well crafted environments are a visual treat, and the story will push you towards its conclusion. It’s…
Valheim — For Odin !
Valheim tasks players with adventuring and proving their worth across massive randomly generated worlds whilst learning to survive through the collecting of resources and the crafting of new weapons, armour and a construction system to…
Super Fantasy Brawl is a huge, smashing, tabletop battle!
We all know what to expect from Mythic Games at this point; huge boxes of plastic, cardboard and neoprene supported by elaborate, customised inserts. Regardless of what's come before though, nothing could prepare me for the sheer…
For Sparta is a fun, single-screen arcade game of juggling dodges and power-ups
In For Sparta, a fast-paced, single-screen action-arcade game, you take on the role of the final Spartan in the battle of Thermopylae. That is about where the historical connections of For Sparta end. In fact, it would arguably be just as…