Rob Covell

Science fiction fans will be right at home here, and those that are paying attention will probably pick up on the movies that provide inspiration for Directive 8020, but I’ll leave that for you to find out. Suffice to say, this is a solid…

The game within the game is a horror tri-peaks solitaire game in which you complete those popular mobile card games in which you play a card ranked one higher or lower than your current card until you clear the screen. Succeed and you…

What Dread Neighbor really is, is a walking simulator with horror, and the feeling of dread really does work quite well. Whilst moments in which you are chased or attacked are scripted, they’re done well enough to get the heart pumping, if…

There’s a solid list of units once again, with a couple of exceptions as seems to be the case every time. As ever, there aren’t any major characters here, so don’t expect Abaddon or Huron here. You have plenty of infantry to choose from,…

Finding the solutions to a puzzle will involve you finding and reading a great deal of those logs, as well as esoteric objects, and human or otherwise remains. As you find these, they’ll be added to your vault, with some of them posing…

Screamer is absolutely gorgeous to look at. The environments fly by at a hundred miles per hour and still manage to look great, but it’s the cars that steal the show. They’re all absurdly proportioned, with every colour in existence on them…

It reminded me of Mothergunship and Vampire Hunters with their gun stacking and modding mechanics, and that’s kind of the biggest problem I had with Galactic Vault. Every time I sat down — and genuinely did enjoy playing a run — I found…

As you clean up, you’ll gain recyclable rubbish that you can take to a machine which will turn it into coins or usable resources. Coins can be used to upgrade your Terra Cleaner and its attachments, whilst resources are used in the…

The actual game has you placing tiles on a grid that will be used to attack your enemy with the goal of reducing the character themselves to zero health. At first you’ll have a few empty slots and a couple of items to place, but after a few…

This wouldn’t be so bad if melee was viable, but it’s unbelievably janky. Swinging your bat at enemies seems to damage them, but there’s little feedback, and the same is true of enemies attacking you. I thought I was holding off a giant…