Video Games

War Dogs: Air Combat Flight Simulator WW II is a smooth-control flight simulator featuring loads of planes from Germany, UK, USA, Japan and Russia. I don’t know much about the fighter planes that were around during World War II, but War…

Concrete Jungle is dense and can feel like several games compressed together, but compressed in such a way that the complexity and spark of each idea is still preserved. At its core, it's a puzzle game constructed around deck-building, set…

Grab the Bottle is a Rube Goldberg puzzler, somehow oh-so familiar. There are games that exist in a different format in our memories to their actual format, things seen through a filter that was never there. The graphics looked sharper, fog…

Fight back against the odds to save your partner in Western-themed 2D shooter Colt Canyon. Colt Canyon is all about moving fast and shooting faster. It's a simple-looking 2D shooter in which the danger of the enemies is only matched by the…

Scale the tower and defeat the corrupted heart in card-based roguelike Slay the Spire. I am not the biggest fan of deck builders — I don’t like designing decks around strategies because I am not good at planning ahead. Slay the Spire,…

With deep and meaningful strategy games making the leap onto consoles in unprecedented numbers recently, players have never been so spoilt for choice. Even so, relatively few strategy games have the same grand ambitions as Age of Wonders:…

If there was one game which blew me away at the recent Develop: Brighton conference it was Touch Type Tale, a fantastic fusion of RTS and typing-game which excels in both genres. The typing genre is, in my opinion, at its best when it…

Anonymously share your worries with strangers and receive support in Pop Cannibal’s Kind Words — a unique experience that feels like a warm hug.

Devolver Digital are becoming connoisseurs of a specific type of character — a red blob with two appendages. Earlier this year we had the wonderful Pikuniku where the titular Piku had only two legs. Now we get Heave Ho where the character…

A horror game on a ghost ship meant to be played with a gaggle of pals, and a few buckets of popcorn. Sounds like a great night in, right? Enter Man Of Medan.

People play games for a variety of reasons. Some play them to fulfill fantasies of grandeur, others to blow off steam through some headshots. The reason that I play games nowadays is to relax, to achieve some zen in my chaotic head.

There are a ton of game jams happening online at any point during the year. Many of these jams follow a theme and a timeframe, giving developers the challenge of creating a game within a specific jam’s restrictions. I am able to record…

Weighing in at just over 10GB you wont need to delete too much from your storage to accommodate Bulletstorm and, with its arcade score-like approach to FPS, it's small enough to retain a place in your catalogue as you keep coming back for…

When it comes to modern board games there are few as iconic as Gloomhaven. Weighing in at over 10 kilos of physical mass, and boasting one of the largest boxes you could imagine, it’s also the one game that is perhaps most suited to a…

Playing a video game doesn’t always have to be about competition, skills and frustration. This is something I learnt with time, how to enjoy and seek relaxation to escape this frantic world. In fact, this is exactly what caught my attention…

Another food game, this one with some music to make it stand out. Cook To The Beat is a simplistic mobile cooking game where you are basically just chopping up a bunch of ingredients that sort of make sense to a recipe, trying to get the…

A Short Hike is a brief, delightful game about a young bird hiking around and exploring a summertime island with bad cell phone reception.

Waking up in the midst of an attack on her village, a white haired, elf-like young woman named Ada sets off on a quest for revenge. With a mythical white elk in tow, Decay of Logos presents a cross between open-world RPG mechanics and…

Focus Home Interactive are well known for adopting developers with a penchant for creating games that are a little rough around the edges, but which have enough about them to warrant seeing the light of day, that a bigger publisher might…

The bombs have fallen, everything is mutated to heck. But yet in Atomicrops you're strapped with a gun and a farm to tend. Bird Bath Games' Atomicrops has got more than just fruit and vegetables as collectables, objectives and currency — it…