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Relationships are important in this choose your own adventure story meets card game. Signs of the Sojourner will make you want to connect with the world around you.

Without spoiling too much, Martha is Dead focuses on Guilia’s attempt to find out precisely what happened to her sister, whilst also trying to come to terms with her loss, and the events of the war that play out around her. All is not as it…

50 Years is the perfect turn-based strategy battle simulator game to play if you only have a few minutes, but be warned, the desire to achieve a fifty-year victory could have you replaying for hours on end! 

Unlike the original game, Ziggurat 2 has a full campaign with a plot. The plot is very simple, with good mages and bad mages trying to save or destroy the world, with you heading up the good guys. You’ll complete quests around a map to…

A bit of an odd one, Lacuna. On the one hand it's a classic slice of Noir played straight, with scifi flourishes. It plays simply, until you hit an investigative sequence. At this point it may well not be as twisting and winding as it seems…

300 multi-purpose missiles, forty bombs and over one thousand rounds of heavy-machine gun ammunition. That, believe it or not, is a relatively modest payload for the airplanes you'll fly in Sector D2's excellent Project Wingman — a clear…

If you know the original Thea at all, then you'll probably already know that there's no way I could do it justice in a brief article intended to take five or so minutes to read through. The reason that I've chosen to cover Thea 2: The…

When it comes to cooking, couch co-op games, I love trying out new ones! Cannibal Cuisine is one of these types of games, however, there is a twist. Instead of cooking up lovely dishes for some sort of crowd, you are actually killing…

I was delighted by the visual presentation when I first saw Demon Turf. The combination of 2D characters placed into a 3D world feels novel. In my preview, I mentioned some worries that I hoped would be addressed by launch. Even still…

To be honest, I didn’t think I would like Youtubers Life 2. I have not played the first game, and felt like I just wouldn’t enjoy a tycoon game about making and editing videos for Youtube. But, Youtubers Life 2 has proven that becoming a…

I am a huge fan of wholesome games and do enjoy a game with a photography theme. After having finished The Good Life recently, I was pretty stoked when Pupperazzi made it’s way onto my Xbox, downloaded and ready to be played! It’s a game I…

After having a bizarre murder-cow infested dream that acts as a tutorial, you wake up in your apartment with a guide to working at the titular Happy’s Humble Burger Farm, your new source of employment. You’re instructed to pick up a…

Aeterna Noctis sees the Queen of Light and the King of Darkness in an eternal strife for power over Aeterna.

Transient is one of those games that, on paper, that I should love. It’s an old-style adventure game; along the lines of Myst. You explore, poke around areas, and solve puzzles. It’s a synthesis of Lovecraft and Cyberpunk, both narratively…

A long, long time ago, I got the chance to play a demo of I Am Fish, and was quite interested in the game when it came out. It has finally made its way onto my Xbox, as part of Xbox Games Pass, so I have had my chance to play as a fish,…

To preface: I have very limited experience with Sherlock Holmes. I have seen BBC's modern series, and thought it was kind of terrible. Vague memories of Jeremy Brett's take on Holmes linger in my mind, as a whip smart, vaguely fading…

Battles take place on a grid in a small area and you’ll always have the exact information on what your enemies will do on their turn, whilst you try to take them out using a deck of cards. On the surface, this is really quite simple, but…

The first DLC to Shiny Shoe’s deckbuilding hit Monster Train, The Last Divinity, brings a new faction, adaptive mid-run difficulty and a serious new end-game challenge to the table.

Lately, I have been spending my evenings playing slice of life styled games. Letting the hours pass by as I explore these strange and wonderful worlds, enjoying my time in the warmth of my own home. The Good Life had taken up a bunch of my…

Backbone. Backbone, backbone, backbone. Alright. Basics first: this is, as described, a modern take on point and click games. It features detailed, sharply written dialogue and vividly drawn characters. It is rendered in a sort of 2D Pixel…