Nintendo Switch

Sayonara Wild Hearts has you riding on a fantastical neon highway in the sky as ‘The Fool’, the masked biker persona of a girl whose broken heart has impacted the balance of the entire universe.

With the number of strategy games hitting Nintendo’s incredible Switch platform recently, you’d be forgiven for missing some of the more obscure entries into the market. Shiro Games Northgard is most certainly not to be missed however, and…

You are a horrible goose in a quiet English village. Honk at the locals, steal items and cause chaos in Untitled Goose Game by House House.

Played out in either single player or couch co-op with drop in/out functionality, River City Girls sheds the common theme of muscle-bound freaks and dark gritty scenes within previous entries in the genre for a lighter, sassy and…

Blasphemous starts out as it means to go on, awakening on a pile of bodies. Those bodies seem uncomfortably familiar until you realise that they are the ones that came before you. Immediately thrown into your first boss battle you can see…

You’ll get to decide whether you’re a MOBA team (think DOTA 2 and League of Legends) or FPS (Counter-strike and such) before being dropped into your base, ready to develop your team into a  world-conquering colossus. 

Grab the Bottle is a Rube Goldberg puzzler, somehow oh-so familiar. There are games that exist in a different format in our memories to their actual format, things seen through a filter that was never there. The graphics looked sharper, fog…

Fight back against the odds to save your partner in Western-themed 2D shooter Colt Canyon. Colt Canyon is all about moving fast and shooting faster. It's a simple-looking 2D shooter in which the danger of the enemies is only matched by the…

Scale the tower and defeat the corrupted heart in card-based roguelike Slay the Spire. I am not the biggest fan of deck builders — I don’t like designing decks around strategies because I am not good at planning ahead. Slay the Spire,…

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…

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…

Nightmares often come to life when we are dreaming, presenting us with what we fear most. In Rest in Pieces, you must take these nightmares head on, swinging yourself away from anything that can harm you. Rest in Pieces sees you playing as…

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.

When it comes to rhythm games, I am not the best at keeping the beat. That said, I really enjoy beautiful music and especially enjoy games with interactive crowds. So, Hexagroove: Tactical DJ is something I'm more than interested in: it's a…

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. …

I am a huge fan of games that allow for a fusion of crafting, cooking and adventure. If you then throw pirates into the mix then you’ve really got me interested. Stranded Sails is this, an amazing adventure game full of crafting, farming,…

Colorful couch co-ops are booming lately, adding to the stack of games that I want to play with my friends. Tools Up! is one such game, but this time you and your friends are looking to renovate a house.  Tools Up! has a pretty simple…

As if some mystical, heavenly floodgate has opened recently (all hail the great God Dire Wolf Digital and their vast riches) there has never been a better time to be a fan of video game adaptations of great board games. The Nintendo Switch,…

Some fifteen or maybe even twenty years ago, I was good at rhythm action games. It began with the likes of Parappa the Rapper and Final Fantasy Theatrythm, but with the advent of instrument based games like Rock Band and DJ Hero, my…