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Man of Medan — is it a ship shape successor to Until Dawn?

Matthew Smail Oct 15, 2019 0

Until Dawn was one of the five or six Sony exclusive games that first made me invest in a shiny new PS4. Supermassive Games' blockbusting horror game featured an all-star cast, incredible visuals and, most importantly, a heart pounding…

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The Surge 2 — Which way to Undead Burg?

Alex Wilmot Oct 15, 2019 0

The Surge 2 moves the franchise along with a welcome update in mechanics, engine, design and story. The bugs and issues of the original removed, it’s a great application of the Soulsborne formula but with its own distinctive features.

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Sayonara Wild Hearts — Musical Neon Love

Bryan Taylor Oct 14, 2019 0

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.

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Northgard — Probably the best RTS to hit Nintendo Switch

Matthew Smail Oct 10, 2019 0

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…

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River City Girls — Girl Power !

Alex Wilmot Oct 5, 2019 0

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…

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Blasphemous — Sinners Rejoice !

Alex Wilmot Oct 3, 2019 0

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…

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Sea of Solitude — Fighting the monster within

Bryan Taylor Oct 1, 2019 0

Sea of Solitude is the tale of Kay, a girl who fights the monster that is depression in a city drowning with despair.

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Pathways/021 — Grab the Bottle

Louis Sullivan Sep 28, 2019 0

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…

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Slay the Spire — Build a deck and gain relics

Jupiter Hadley Sep 26, 2019 0

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,…

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Age of Wonders: Planetfall — Golden Age

Matthew Smail Sep 26, 2019 0

With deep and meaningful strategy games making the leap onto consoles in unprecedented numbers recently, players have never been so spoilt for choice. Even so, relatively few strategy games have the same grand ambitions as Age of Wonders:…

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Man Of Medan — Fear, fun?

John Mulcahey Sep 23, 2019 0

A horror game on a ghost ship meant to be played with a gaggle of pals, and a few buckets of popcorn. Sounds like a great night in, right? Enter Man Of Medan.

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Decay of Logos — Oh Deer

Alex Wilmot Sep 17, 2019 0

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…

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GreedFall — Is all that glitters Gold?

Matthew Smail Sep 16, 2019 0

Focus Home Interactive are well known for adopting developers with a penchant for creating games that are a little rough around the edges, but which have enough about them to warrant seeing the light of day, that a bigger publisher might…

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Monster Boy & The Cursed Kingdom — Different but the same

Alex Wilmot Sep 13, 2019 0

Those first few scenes could have easily taken an hour what with me soaking in nostalgia. The level design, whilst again familiar to me, has been rendered in 4K with a great use of colour. The levels not only look great, and clean, but it’s…

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Metal Wolf Chaos XD — A sheep in wolf’s clothing?

Rob Covell Sep 4, 2019 0

You take on the role of Michael Wilson, the president of the United States of America ㄧ something that he constantly likes to remind people ㄧ who is forced to fight to reclaim his country from a military coup led by his villainous…

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Sagebrush — A game inspired by real-world apocalyptic cults.

Chelly Aug 30, 2019 0

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. …

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Stranded Sails — Shipwrecked adventure

Jupiter Hadley Aug 29, 2019 0

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,…

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Ancestors Legacy — Old school consolement

Matthew Smail Aug 28, 2019 0

Whilst I feel that I’ve begun every one of my Xbox reviews lately with a rant about the lack of strategy games, I’m beginning to think that someone out there is actually listening to me. Today’s review is for Destructive Creations squad…

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Tools Up! — Decorate a house with your friends

Jupiter Hadley Aug 27, 2019 0

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…

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Control — Fun with Faden

Tom Power Aug 26, 2019 0

There must be something amazing in the water at Remedy Entertainment’s offices. To come up with something as intelligent, mind-bending, and ambitious as Control is no mean feat, and yet the Finnish developer makes it look so simple with its…

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