A preview of Prehistoric Kingdom
We took a while to build our very own Prehistoric Kingdom, and there's a lot to love in this Early-Access title.
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Let’s Cook Together 2 brings back chaotic cooking!
If you read my content, you'll know I love cooking games and I love couch co-ops. My favorite type of game, then, is really a mix of them both. Previously, we've dived into Let’s Cook Together — ultimately, Dann and I fulled completing the…
The Fabulous Fear Machine is all about managing both expectations and fears
Power, limitless resources, revenge against those who crossed you? The Fabulous Fear Machine will grant whatever your wish, for a cost. Wow. I've been really interested in The Fabulous Fear Machine since I first saw it, there was something…
Backbeat gives sliding puzzles a musical twist
When it comes to great puzzle games, you need either a set of great game mechanics or a really good theme. good theme. Developer Ichigoichie showed that they have a deep attachment to music as a theme with their last title, Hexagroove, but…
Orebody: Binder’s Tale is a NES tribute to the platform-shooter
A classic platforming shooter, Orebody: Binder's Tale follows the story of a scrappy robot fighting its way through hordes of robots to avenge its mentor, all developed totally within the confines of the NES. For a lot of people, their…
Project Warlock 2 (Early Access) – (War)Lock and Load for Some Retro Shooter Carnage
Project Warlock 2 aims to take players back to the shooters of yesteryear. With its blend of retro shooter gameplay and a few clever twists, developers Buckshot Software aim to capture the same blood, bullets and badassery from the classic…
Birth is a calming puzzler about building a new friend
Have you ever found yourself in a strange place, alone and lonely? Even though you know that the world is just as weird and strange as anybody might find you, you just can't seem to connect with others. In Birth the solution is simple, to…
Ozymandias is a classy, condensed, classic 4x experience
Sometimes a game comes along and boils down familiar tropes into something so simple that it almost seems brand new, only for you to blink and realise that this is actually a journey back to the very origin of the trope. Ozymandias does…
SChIM is all about a shadow frog just trying to go about its day
Jump from shadow to shadow as a Schim, a shadow-surfing frog, in the cool 3D puzzle game of the same name. I don't know about you, but with me there are games that simply keep cropping up. You spot them early in development and then they…
Hexahedra is a carefully designed logic puzzle about creating precisely prepared crates
In the future when you need to ship something intergalactically you'll do so using appropriately labelled, painted, stamped and marked cubes. In Hexahedra you're the person who codes the machines to create those crates, although there's a…
Kurat demands perfect timing to survive the Devil’s games
Don't you love it when it turns out your ancestors made a deal with the devil and forgot to give you any sort of warning? In Kurat, 100 years have passed since that agreement, the Devil has shown up to collect. Luckily, they simply want to…
Quetzal is a platformer about deflection, reflection and rebounding off traps
Quetzal is an upcoming 2D platformer all about quick decisions and precision timing. The combination of those two are the only way you stand a chance of making it through the depths of the Earth, to restore balance to the world. Falling…
Grid Force – Mask of the Goddess challenges you to strike down the goddesses
Death is rarely permanent in games, and Grid Force - Mask of the Goddess is no different. In fact, you start off having just shrugged off a recent death, your own, as you — Donna — recover from your recent, failed attempt to topple the…
To Hell With The Ugly is a jazzy Film Noir with its shadows swapped for amber
Film Noir has never looked quite so bright. To Hell With The Ugly is a 1950s set point & click adventure game that also features turn-based combat and... a little bit of detective work. I don't know anything about Boris Vian, his pen…
Sopa is a magical story about growing up, loss and frog people
Family recipes are very important things, often passed down through the family and frequently wrapped up in memories. Sopa follows Miha, a young boy who is suddenly whisked away to a magical world while helping his grandmother with…
In Time on Frog Island you can trade up from junk to a fully functional boat
Shipwrecked on a strange island by a terrible storm, you'll need to trade with the strange, humanoid frog locals in order to fix up your vessel and get back to see. However, there's quite a lot to see, and a LOT to do, during your Time on…
Diluvian Winds challenges you to build an outpost in the path of brutal floods
The world is flooding, rising tides have started to claim large parts of the world and the oceans remain far from calm. In Diluvian Winds, you must build and manage an everchanging colony of travellers who pass by your lighthouse while…
Ikonei Island is a co-operative mix of slice of life and adventure
Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure is a cooperative adventure game all about exploring, crafting on and customising a beautiful island and returning it to splendour. Do you ever rummage through your game library and stumble across a game…
Swordship sets a stylish standard for Dodge’Em Ups
You're outgunned and outnumbered in Swordship, a stunning, moreish Dodge'Em Up. The classic shooter, or shoot'em up (or even shmup, if you're really big into smashing words into the smallest possible form), is possibly one of the…
Terraformers is a colony builder that thrives with thoughtfulness
Explore and populate the surface of Mars with experiments and projects in Terraformers a single-player, combat-free strategy take on space-colonisation. We've been to Mars in games more than a few times over the years, it has an incredible…