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Aurora is a cute puzzler about meeting your guardian spirit
Play as an adorable person with a cute sprite in Aurora, a 3D puzzle game full of color. Exploring an abandoned temple, which has many locked off areas, each tucked away behind color based puzzles. Aurora caught my eye while I walked the…
Lifeform — Alien Territory
In space no one can hear you scream. Or, as the side panel of the Lifeform box puts it, “in the vast, forbidden seas of space… Terror awaits.” Not quite as catchy, is it? Regardless of its cheesy strapline, Lifeform, from Hall or Nothing…
Jetpack Joyride — Blasting off
With an existing history of linking mobile games, augmented reality and board games together in innovative ways, Lucky Duck Games is the ideal publisher for a game like Jetpack Joyride. This real time game is a direct adaptation of the…
Untitled Goose Game & Friends: The freedom of being a jerk
People very much enjoy schadenfreude. Be it a friend slipping on a banana peel, a character on TV getting their comeuppance or an enemy dying in a hilarious fashion. And video games, as an interactive medium, allow us to be the harbingers…
Cake Bash is a multiplayer pastry arena brawler
Become a cake and participate in various pastry-related, or sprinkle battling, mayhem in Cake Bash, a really fun multiplayer party game. Taking on various types of challenges against up to three of your friends, in Cake Bash's very colorful…
The terrifying Possessed have arrived in Mordheim: Warband Skirmish
The possessed have risen up as a new foe in tactical RPG Mordheim: Warband Skirmish. The excellent Mordheim: Warband Skirmish continues to be one of the most content-packed mobile strategy games on iOS and Android. Back on Halloween,…
Throw Throw Burrito — The name says it all
Throw Throw Burrito is a unique combination of a card game mixed with dodgeball, from the minds behind Exploding Kittens and Bears Vs Babies, where your ball is actually a squishy burrito. Throw Throw Burrito is made for two to six…
John Wick Hex — Time of Death
John Wick Hex is an action strategy game where the actions you make define a ballet of bullets, leaving many dead in your wake.
Disco Elysium — No Donuts for this Detective
An RPG by ZA/UM—an artist-collective-turned-development-studio based in Estonia and the UK—Disco Elysium’s setting and lore is drawn from a custom tabletop scenario played by the group for the past seven-or-so years. Given an isometric…
The Long Dark — Hope Kindles in Episode Three
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,…
Spending an Hour Too Close to the Sun
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 — Shape-shift and trick
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 Insults Game — Prepare for Abuse
With just over 300 cards provided and the way in which cards are mixed, matched and then returned to the table; there are enough cards provided to deliver an extremely extensive mix of insults with it being very rare for delivering the…
Omen: A Reign of War — Duel of the deities
I've always been a big fan of one versus one card games, the most famous of which is probably Magic: The Gathering. There's little time or money in my life to keep up with expansive and costly trading card games nowadays though, so I'm…
Extraordinary Adventures: Pirates — Shiver me timbers!
When it comes to six player games, you’ll usually need to invest in an expansion (or two) — or look to your collection of party games — in order to satisfy your guests. Extraordinary Adventures: Pirates is that rare and special gem that is…
The Outer Worlds — 10 things to know before you start.
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.
You can take on puzzles or explore a world in Adventure in Aellion
Based around the concept of combining the wistful open worlds of the Zelda series with a multiplayer experience, Adventure in Aellion is an open world game full of puzzles and adventure, which you can take on alone or with a friend. …
Rocket Squad — Cardboard rockets that fit in your pockets
Rocket Squad is a hand management game with take-that elements for two to four players, in which you try to build the biggest cardboard rocket you can in order to earn the most points and claim the title of king of the backyard!
Morphies Law: Remorphed — Steal their mass
It's morphin time! Morphies Law is a video game about shooting people to steal their mass for yourself. Fighting for a giant robot called your 'avatar', you compete in a variety of battle modes, invariably stealing mass to help your avatar.…
A season as Leeds United in Football Manager 2020; New features and changes in review
People love rituals. Most of us have several — whether we know it or not. One of mine happens annually, when the release date for the new Football Manager game is announced and I feverishly prepare myself for what will be at least a…