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Night Book — Book a night off
Night Book was filmed entirely during lockdown, with the actors not actually doing any scenes in person. In terms of developing an FMV game, this is really quite an impressive challenge to undertake, and I have a lot of respect for Wales…
Omno Brings You Closer To The Light
Omno's lush landscapes make traversal of its various biomes a wonder to behold. Journey with Omno as you make your way towards the Light.
Tools Up! Garden Party – Episode 2: Tunnel Vision needs more thought
Another episode of Tools Up! Garden Party has come out, and I was excited to dig my shovel into it! In case you didn’t know, Tools Up! is a couch co-op game where you and your friend are renovating houses. With the Garden Party DLC, you are…
Boyfriend Dungeon — Swords & Therapy
Boyfriend Dungeon is a weirdly wonderful game — wonderful character design, quirky dates, a solid soundtrack.
Ragnarock — Valhalla’va Ride
You are a Viking at the helm of a longboat, commanding your crew with music instead of commands. Their rowing is ever paced by how hard you rock. You barrel down seemingly endless fjords, banging out tunes with your hammers. This is…
Revisiting Broken Lines, a squad-based tactics game
In “We-go” tactics games, turns are removed altogether and the player and enemies move simultaneously. Broken Lines is the most recent iteration of this style and a darn good implementation of it too. Instead of turns, the gameplay in…
Metavaxx — Vaccine Overdrive
Metavaxx, from French developer duo PUNKCAKE Délicieux, melds together classic Minesweeper tactics with shooters in a quest to create the most effective vaccine.
Death’s Door — Tiny Crow, Big Homages
Death’s Door showcases a best-of in the action-adventure genre. As a crow reaper I faced challenges that never felt insurmountable. A ghastly manor tried keeping me away from its basement. I mazed my way through a temple in ruin. A climb to…
Behind the Frame Is Art Come to Life
Behind the Frame was quite a new experience for me. Often when I hear the words interactive fiction or story-rich I tend to check out immediately; Which is to say I’m not a fan. Yet something drew me to this particular offering from Silver…
The Mind has you guessing amongst friends, hoping to not cost them the game
When it comes to card games, there is a large variety of them. The Mind is a two to four player card game for ages eight and above that doesn’t involve much talking at all, yet has everyone working as a team, trying to complete various…
Imagine Earth dreams of a better Utopia
For anyone who follows my writing, you would be forgiven for thinking that Imagine Earth should be right up my street. Attractive, clever and rammed with content, this global-scale economic and environmental strategy simulator tasks players…
Get Packed is another couch co-op about moving, but slightly more intense
You probably know that we play a lot of couch co-ops in our household. With a family of five people who love games, we spend quite a lot of time playing video games together and one of our favorite things to do is play couch co-op ones.…
Weaving Tides Ties Together A Heartfelt Story
Weaving Tides ties together the story of Tass, and his dragon Kilim in a world of full of fabric and magic.
Vadoran Gardens is a tiny box that reveals an expansive journey
Known for the iteratively popular big box games The City of Kings and The Isle of Cats, designer Frank West and his team at The City of Games decided to try their hand at something a little more portable. Vadoran Gardens comes in perhaps…
Sunless Skies — Sail the seven skies!
Yes, Sunless Skies is a rogue-lite, and a hard one at that, but not in quite the same way as many. Your death doesn’t reset the game, rather you create a new captain, who follows your legacy by claiming some of what you’ve lost before…
YUKI — Still a kid inside
YUKI introduces a unique premise, a bullet-hell roguelike that has you directing your character by holding it in the air like an action figure.
Synth Riders Caravan Palace DLC — King of the Swingers
The content drop includes a handful of songs across the band’s portfolio ranging from tracks taken from the bands 2015 album - , one from the 2012 album “Panic” and up to 2019’s Chronologic
Andor: The Family Fantasy Game is a lightweight adventure from a heavyweight duo
If you look at the back catalogue of Inka and Markus Brand, the couple behind games as diverse and award-winning as Rajas of the Ganges, Village and several games in the Exit series, then you’d be forgiven for wondering how on Earth they…
Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunt — Turok n’ Roll
You are a nameless hunter who travels from their aerial base to a variety of dinosaur infested islands with the goal of hunting the biggest dinosaurs you can find. There’s no explanation for any of this, so just have at it!
Veilwraith is another solo epic from Hall or Nothing
When I last reviewed a game from designer Tristan Hall, I remember suggesting that Gloom of Kilforth was a must have for fans of solo games. Since then, Covid-19 has prevented multiplayer and face to face gaming in almost all its forms, and…