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Assetto Corsa Competizione is simply a sublime celebration of GT racing
With its sole focus on GT Series racing, Assetto Corsa Competizione reduces the scope of the original Assetto Corsa, but delivers the kind of focus that hardcore racing fans will love, assuming that they have the skills to match their…
The Invincible centres on out of this world storytelling
The Invincible challenges you to rethink human dominion. It's a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world. Developed by Starward Industries, it challenges you to explore a barren planet and face unforeseen threats. The Invincible is…
Break The Loop hurtles heroes through time into a cartoon, run-based roguelike
Gather your adventurers and blast through time to save humanity against a deadly, abyssal monster and its minions in Break The Loop. Break The Loop places you at the wheel of a motley crew of heroes that have been sucked through time to…
Forest Grove – In grove danger
The setup is at least interesting, with you playing an unnamed investigator entering a digital recreation of the family home. An AI has analysed the house itself and recreated what it’s discovered for you to go in and explore without…
Rising Lords’ medieval strategy is fun and beautiful, but mechanically unpolished
As regular readers will know, I’m always the first to put my hand up to review strategy games that make their way onto my console. The latest of these is Rising Lords — a game that feels every bit as though it is still only halfway through…
The Sims 4 Goth Galore Kits brings out your inner goth
The Sims 4 community is really dedicated to the content that is being created for the game, especially as The Sims 4 is now a free game, with tons of different add-ons that you can purchase to change your experience. Recently, the community…
Estate Agent Simulator is only a pretty good simulator, but a great sandbox
In Estate Agent Simulator, you unsurprisingly play as an estate agent, however — as per recent simulator games — there’s a lot that you can do outside of the core game loop including some RPG mechanics and, bizarrely, crypto trading. Estate…
Rough Justice ’84 – Roll with the punches
You play as Jim Baylor, a former police officer who was set up by a corrupt force and sent to prison. Upon your release, you find that the city’s crime has escalated considerably, and you join a friend’s private security company intending…
Solace State puts you at the heart of a political, emotional powder keg
Technology races ahead, authoritarianism is at a concerning high and activists are being suppressed. Solace State is a narrative adventure game that puts you right in the thick of a political hotpoint. It's easy to look at Solace State's…
A Horror Game A Year for the Last Decade – Ten years of terror
Regardless, here you will find a horror game a year for the past decade, along with the occasional honourable mention. You’ll find fewer major releases here, as I’m much keener to shine my torch on something you may have missed, forgotten,…
Baldur’s Gate 3 has shadow-dropped on Xbox One Series X – Here are the Ten Things You…
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out on the PC and PlayStation 5 for months now, and is already being declared as Game of the Year (and perhaps Best Game Ever) by large sections of the community. I’ve been waiting with bated breath for the Xbox One…
Criminal Expert – Barely proficient
You play a police detective who is trying to solve the case of a seemingly kidnapped woman appearing in the middle of the road. You’ll find the perpetrators by interviewing people in FMV interrogations, looking through the police database,…
Business Heroes: Street Grub – Food Truck’s Open!
I am a big fan of cooking games and games that revolve around managing some sort of kitchen. Business Heroes: Street Grub is a food truck simulator game, with lots of different menus to manage and track, so that you can have a whole food…
Mistward has you peel back the poison to create a new home
Mistward is a systems-based strategy game that can be played in a variety of ways. This unique edge to the game comes from it being a relaxing game that allows the player to travel at their own pace. Mistward takes place on an island…
Wartales offers an amazing, personal journey, but lacks clear narrative
Like an open-world Fire Emblem, Wartales focuses on character development through a series of complex, interlocked systems. But, unlike the classic series from Intelligent Systems, Wartales relies a lot more on its world and the characters…
Sugar Mess – Let’s Play Jolly Battle – Candy Blasting Fun
Now, we aren’t a big gun-game household. My parents didn’t let me play gun games, and I am just not a fan of them as a result. There are a lot of games with guns or blasters, and Sugar Mess - Let’s Play Jolly Battle, is one such game,…
Phantom Galaxies – Ghost of a chance
Enemies glitching around as though they’re at a different frame rate to the rest of the game are more of an issue, and your guns sometimes firing three shots, sometimes one, sometimes not at all are far bigger problems. In fact, during one…
Age of Grit takes steampunk strategy to the skies
Take to the skies in Wild-West-inspired, steampunk RPG Age of Grit. Age of Grit drops players straight into the shoes of Jebediah Rockwell, an ex-military cargo-ship captain who is firmly established in his Wild-West-inspired world. It's…
Manitas Kitchen has you becoming a pizza-making dinosaur!
Cooking games always have a soft spot in my heart, but Manitas Kitchen is far more than just your average cooking game! You play as a Tyrannosaurus who has had a dream of making pizzas! However, you are a bit shy and can get easily…
Lost Islands is all about conquering and mastering your environment
Lost Islands is an open-world survival game relying on your skills to successfully explore and explore in dangerous terrains. Lost Islands is a single-player survival game created by the indie studio Glitch. You start out your journey on a…