Medieval Dynasty — Beautiful game, but needs more.
Create a lasting legacy in Medieval Dynasty, where the consequences of choice you make fall squarely on your descendants' shoulders.
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Fights in Tight Spaces — Game Preview
Here’s where the clever part comes in. Your opponents will attack so long as there is a target in their attack range, regardless of who it is. You can use your attack and movement cards to damage opponents and get yourself to safety, but…
Steam City Chronicles: Rise of the Rose — An almost unplayable mess of tedium and tasteless fan…
Set in a steampunk, corporate dystopia, Steam City Chronicles: Rise of the Rose is a turn-based strategy from FeelThere that sees the player take on the role of the leaders of a rebellion. Guide heroes and militia through the neon-Victorian…
Due Process (Early Access) isn’t geared up just yet
Whilst trying hard to stand out from the crowd, Due Process doesn’t quite do enough (at release) to really show off what a great game it could be. Whether it’s the visuals with its mixture of pixel art and 3D models or its unique features…
Prodeus (Early Access) — Bullets and Blood Turned to 11
Using modern technology and retro shooter gameplay, Prodeus hopes to keep the spirit of 90s shooters alive, and from what I played in its Early Access version, it does. It certainly does. Aside from DOOM (2016) and its sequel’s…
A look at Empires and Tribes’ Early Access offering
Get up close and personal in this medieval city builder, where you can stack bricks, argue with priests and command armies.
In Chernobylite, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. meets, uh… S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
It’s time to tiptoe through the exclusion zone as we return to Chernobylite, where physics gets weird, green and radioactive.
Paradise Killer — Find The Truth and Discover The Facts
As Lady Love Dies, find out the truth and discover the facts in your quest to find out who killed Paradise.
New World — Not quite new enough
I’m the first to admit that I’ve sunk way too many hours into MMO’s such as World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14. Whether it was raids, dungeons, or crafting, I often spend the early hours of the morning justifying to myself why I needed…
No Straight Roads defines the rhythm action platformer setlist
With its power-punk rock duo setup, No Straight Roads comes out of left field with an amazing blend of action, music, and platforming to create a stunning game that will keep your toes tapping along to the violence of bashing robots to the…
BPM: Bullets per Minute — Rockin’ And A-Rollin’
Now I’ve played quite a few roguelikes/roguelites at this point, and it’s fair to say that I’m a bit worn out on the whole genre. With so many vying for attention and little done to stand out, it can often feel like I’m playing the same…
Curious Expedition 2 — An uneventful journey
When it comes to exploration in games, it needs to accomplish one simple, yet lofty task for me to stay interested: Feed my curiosity. Let me explore a world that feels alive, teeming with possibilities and with so much character that I…
Running our own gas station in space: Living the dream in Cosmo’s Quickstop
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to run your very own gas station in space, then look no further than Cosmo’s Quickstop.
Legend of Keepers — Admin with added death
Normally rogue-lite games become very boring, very quickly for me. I often find that I’ve seen most of the game in the first hour of playing, and so have little drive to keep playing the same areas, or enemies over and over again. Whilst…
Gears: The Deck-builder is a cute but cunning deckbuilder now on Kickstarter
Gears: The Deck-builder is available to back on Kickstarter now and at the time of writing, has just a couple of days left to run. It has already hit the funded mark and so will be fulfilled, so if it takes your fancy, now's the time.…
MasterChef: Dream Plate is like an Instagram game for food
I’ve been known to take quite a few food pictures and post them on Instagram in my time, and that’s sort of what MasterChef: Dream Plate reminds me of. It’s a pretty simple concept: instead of cooking up the food you’ll be purchasing it and…
Blasting into Mars Horizon (beta)
Getting into space is hard. Very hard. Getting to space requires planning, research and a big rocket. Mars Horizon puts you at the head of a fresh, up and coming space agency, hell-bent on becoming the greatest space agency the earth and…
Cities: Skylines — Sunset Harbor DLC — More variety is always welcome
The latest expansion for Paradox’s Cities: Skylines city builder brings new mass transit options, huge transport interchanges and an entirely new fishing industry to the game, amongst other things.
Cartridge Defense — A collectible cart game?
Cartridge Defense could keep it as simple as having a cartridge for a machine gun and another for a flamethrower, but the different cartridges have a variety of benefits. Some allow you to place multiple towers, or towers of different types…
Ring of Fire — An Investigative Look
Welcome to New London, a solarpunk Utopia of the 2060s. Take on the mantle of Detective Grosvenor — a jaded, middle-aged detective — and track down a radicalised serial killer in a dark underworld. An accessible, interesting detective game,…