Nintendo Switch

Feeling somewhat like Afterburner, but no longer on rails and with a slower pace, Sky Rogue has you fly around a small set of islands fending off enemy aircraft and destroying buildings. Success sees you earning money to upgrade your plane…

Following the well-established Metroidvania system of gated progression through tool, weapon or item acquisition, Iconoclasts presents a surprisingly complex map with a high number of secret or unattainable items early on.

Even though I haven’t played it, I’d imagine that the PC version of Big Pharma might be quite an interesting prospect. Four or five hours of console experience has certainly whet my appetite, but despite the interesting prospect, iffy…

Greak: Memories of Azur is a Metroidvania with hand-drawn animations, which tells the epic adventure of three magical Courine siblings fighting to free their land of Azul from evil.

Kunai is a Metroidvania starring a killer tablet named Tabby who joins the fight against a robotic uprising fueled by an evil A.I.

There are a plethora of tower defense games out there, but none bring the charm and the magic like Dungeon Defenders: Awakened does.

Even though I haven’t completed Cardpocalypse, I’ve spent enough time with it to get a good sense of how steeped in nostalgia it is. Not only does this card battler literally riff on Pokemon as its inspiration, it also nods to just about…

Black Skylands puts you in the shoes of a sky explorer, tasked with entering mysterious lands and eliminating The Swarm: an evil legion of creatures hellbent on taking over the floating islands that serve as your home.

Following on from its smash-hit series, Baldur’s Gate & Icewind Dale, BioWare dropped another classic in July of 2002 by shifting their storytelling prowess into 3D for the first time and injected a friendlier Dungeons & Dragons 3rd…

A series already well established on Nintendo’s 3DS, Apple iOS and Android mobile, Puzzle & Dragon Gold takes team vs team combat and mixes it with match-three mechanics to form hybrid puzzle battler.

Sparklite has a great premise, some great pixel graphics and a soundtrack that didn’t make me want to throw the controller at the TV after the 10th run but it ultimately doesn’t take all the ingredients it has on offer to make an astounding…

At its most basic AVICII Invector is like a cross between Guitar Hero and Amplitude, with you moving your ship left and right on a track to line up with a button that you then press in time to the music. Then there are sections that are…

Once again, a Jackbox Party Pack has a couple of outstanding games and a couple of weaker ones. The handful of great games kept us entertained quite nicely, and the more disappointing ones were simply ignored after a couple of rounds.

Warhammer Quest II — The End Times is the provocatively named sequel to, erm, Warhammer Quest and much like the board game it is based upon, it presents a combat-focused  dungeon crawling experience with light RPG elements. Sounds good…

Co-operative gaming has been getting a renaissance of late, but Tick Tock: A Tale for Two takes local co-operative and applies it to the puzzle genre in a fantastic way. Same screen gaming has been making a massive comeback over the last…

The hand painted auto runner which isn't quite a masterwork.

Shovel Knight: King of Cards tells the story of King Knight and his quest to win a tournament against three other kings in order to be the greatest king of them all.

Shovel Knight: Showdown is a fighting game featuring over sixteen characters from the series in an all-out brawl.

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels comes at the turn-based tactical squad shooter genre with a few interesting ideas and a disappointing lack of depth and polish.

From a literal walk in the park to delivering some of the most frightening experiences in video games, the humble walking simulator has demonstrated its longevity to become much more than a niche genre. Close to the Sun, from Italian…