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As a game, Valfaris wears its inspiration clearly front and centre from the get go: The heavy metal soundtrack, rich in electric guitar riffs, the names of the weapons of destruction you wield to exact your revenge and a protagonist who…

How hard can it be to put a few goldfish in a bowl and charge people to look at it? 

When I first booted up Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition on my Xbox One X, I’m not sure what I was expecting. Maybe, I don’t know, something more than I got when I first booted up Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition on my Google tablet back in…

Set in the wilderness of the fictional Great Bear Island north of mainland Canada, the first two episodes of The Long Dark set the story of how a strange geomagnetic storm hit and plunged the world into darkness. After much anticipation,…

Are these real people? Ghosts?! Surely such nonsense is impossible, but I saw what I saw dammit! Am I going insane? Is this ship a purgatory of some sort?

Mable and the Wood is a platformer with a twist: you can turn into other creatures and use their abilities to help you fight and overcome obstacles.

The Outer Worlds is big & scary, its complex, there are mechanics plenty and many players could invest a lot of time wondering the planets on offer whilst missing some of the most excellent things on offer.

Great for players of all ages and a welcome change from over complicated, ultra difficult, gore soaked realism, instead offering a charming, well illustrated and relaxing jaunt through a story laced with canine and feline based puns and…

In a very similar way to Celeste, Lonely Mountains: Downhill tells a story about persevering, only this time the way is down a mountain.

Somewhere between MOBA, Real Time Strategy, Tower Defense and action RPG lives a game called Lornsword Winter Chronicle. It’s a strange game that tries to answer the age old question of how to make a compelling strategy game specifically…

Like most people, I’m a fan of a good yarn. Stories are important, but can they truly carry a video game? After a playthrough of Ash of Gods: Redemption, I’ve decided the answer is, in this instance, no. This turn-based, story strategy game…

The world has fallen into a new ice age and only you can lead the remains of humanity into a new age of survival in Frostpunk. With more and more strategy and management simulation games making their way onto consoles these days, you might…

When it comes to management simulations, the strength of the area of focus is often the deciding factor between whether a game succeeds or not. Theme Park, for example, excited millions of fans with its theme, despite some relatively…

As you push on further, or fail trying, The Bergson's tale progresses. Driven forward by small cutscenes delivered between breaks in the action, new family members are introduced or new problems are raised in the families home to be solved…

The puzzles aren’t limited to this though, as about a quarter of the way in, you acquire a device called the SMP. This allows you to scan, deconstruct, and copy certain objects in the environment, assuming you have the resources to do so.…

Overland is a turn-based roguelike that casts you as a survivor on a more-often-than-not doomed road trip through a devastated American wasteland. Driving from the East Coast to the West, you must scavenge for supplies, invite other…

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.

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…