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Grindstone — Razor Sharp puzzler
Grindstone is a puzzle game where chaining attacks on colored creatures allows you to destroy them to move around the room.
Potion Punch 2 — It’s nearly cooking
Cooking potions and preparing fish is very much like cooking meals, as such, Potion Punch 2 is a cooking game and one I have enjoyed playing. I’ve played far too many levels, got so many upgrades, a favorite character, and yet at level 40 I…
Man of Medan — is it a ship shape successor to Until Dawn?
Until Dawn was one of the five or six Sony exclusive games that first made me invest in a shiny new PS4. Supermassive Games' blockbusting horror game featured an all-star cast, incredible visuals and, most importantly, a heart pounding…
The Surge 2 — Which way to Undead Burg?
The Surge 2 moves the franchise along with a welcome update in mechanics, engine, design and story. The bugs and issues of the original removed, it’s a great application of the Soulsborne formula but with its own distinctive features.
Sayonara Wild Hearts — Musical Neon Love
Sayonara Wild Hearts has you riding on a fantastical neon highway in the sky as ‘The Fool’, the masked biker persona of a girl whose broken heart has impacted the balance of the entire universe.
Pathways/022 — The final ramble
Have you played Dark Souls? I sure have! It’s definitely a video game. It isn’t that the fanbase is toxic (it isn’t) nor that the game is too hard (it isn’t) nor that the game is obtuse (maybe), but people are often quick to ignore the…
7 wonderful games from Steam’s LGBTQ+ Sale
Steam is highlighting a bunch of LGBTQ+ games that are currently on sale, in honour of Coming Out day taking place this month. These games contain LGBTQ+ characters or themes, and we picked out a few different games from the sale to…
Pack Master — cute and colorful suitcases
Often, the most simple ideas are ones that make for the most fun gameplay. Pack Master, a simplistic yet juicy mobile puzzle game is one such game. In Pack Master, you are tasked with packing various items into a suitcase… and that's…
Northgard — Probably the best RTS to hit Nintendo Switch
With the number of strategy games hitting Nintendo’s incredible Switch platform recently, you’d be forgiven for missing some of the more obscure entries into the market. Shiro Games Northgard is most certainly not to be missed however, and…
Untitled Goose Game — Honk!
You are a horrible goose in a quiet English village. Honk at the locals, steal items and cause chaos in Untitled Goose Game by House House.
Flotsam — Whatever floats your town
In the city management genre we have the giant that is Cities: Skylines, and a few other interesting takes such as Frostpunk or Banished. But now Pajama Llama Games found a new way to make the genre work — the question is whether Flotsam…
Not for Broadcast is a promising dystopian news simulator
Amidst the acid washed jeans, side ponytails and shoulder pad trends of the 1980s, many gamers forget (or just weren’t even there yet) that full motion video games were actually a trend. Live action video narration in games eventually went…
Ord.’s new update is anything but ordinary
There has never been a better time to purchase Ord.
River City Girls — Girl Power !
Played out in either single player or couch co-op with drop in/out functionality, River City Girls sheds the common theme of muscle-bound freaks and dark gritty scenes within previous entries in the genre for a lighter, sassy and…
Technotopia Early Access — Platforms provide paths to pinch paintings
In Technotopia, you play as the Red Guy, who is approached by the Green Guy — a green square, perhaps unsurprisingly — who asks you to steal paintings.
Food Truck Pup — Cook crepes with a Shiba Inu chef
Manage your own food truck selling crepes in Food Truck Pup by Game Start — a cute and addictive pixelated mobile game, featuring a Shiba Inu chef.
Blasphemous — Sinners Rejoice !
Blasphemous starts out as it means to go on, awakening on a pile of bodies. Those bodies seem uncomfortably familiar until you realise that they are the ones that came before you. Immediately thrown into your first boss battle you can see…
Watch is a perspective-twisting narrative platformer about loss
Watch is a narrative driven platformer, with Fez-inspired controls where you change perspective to progress through the story. Watch requires that you view the same world from several different perspectives in order to find the way forward,…
ESport Manager — Middle Management
You’ll get to decide whether you’re a MOBA team (think DOTA 2 and League of Legends) or FPS (Counter-strike and such) before being dropped into your base, ready to develop your team into a world-conquering colossus.
Sea of Solitude — Fighting the monster within
Sea of Solitude is the tale of Kay, a girl who fights the monster that is depression in a city drowning with despair.