Video Game Reviews

Axis Football 2024 is a groundbreaking American football game, looking to take Madden's crown. When it comes to American Football games we aren't exactly spoiled for choice, much like football/soccer major franchises and yearly releases…

In real terms, Stuffed plays an awful lot like Call of Duty Zombies but in a procedurally generated map. Each attempt, and indeed each night, takes place in a slightly different version of the house, with Ellie’s room in a different place…

Here it is, the dream started by Red Faction: Guerilla, anger at Lego, kicking down a sand castle, all realised in glorious voxels. If you can see it, you can blow it up. Teardown delivers handily on the core idea that collapsing buildings…

Radiation, bandits and flesh-eating ghouls. Come visit Zero Seivert's Zakov today! Please note: Rad pills not supplied. I’m going to admit to this right out of the gate: I have a love/hate relationship with hardcore extraction shooters. Do…

You’ll want to make your way around the map quickly at times too, as occasional tasks will pop up that need to be completed in a time limit, much like the game this DLC is based on. These tasks simply want you to reach a certain spot on the…

Forget the rest, here are the ones that I thought were the best: Dann's Top Games of 2023. Ah 2013, what a year, huh? We had a new Pikmin game, The Last of Us Part One, a new Diablo game launch. Somethings never change — eh? A decade on and…

My Time at Sandrock is a sandbox story-oriented RPG freshly released by Pathea Games, whose name you might recognise from their previous titles; Ever Forward, Planet Explorers and sister game My Time at Portia.  Within My Time at Sandrock,…

Party Animals burst onto the gaming scene as a new, intense multiplayer brawler, one where you take control of an adorable animal with the ability to send opponents flying. Developed by Recreate Games, Party Animals utilises vibrant…

When it comes to producing humourous platformers, The Behemoth never misses. Their distinctive art style is instantly recognisable, however, many forget where it started. Alien Hominid HD is a timely reminder. While some could argue that…

El Paso, Elsewhere is a recent release from Strange Scaffold Studios. A third-person shooter where you fight through hordes of vampires, werewolves and fallen angels in the hope of stopping a plot to destroy the world. You play as James…

When I was maybe thirteen or fourteen years old, Dungeon Keeper and its sequel (to a lesser extent) were two of my absolute favourite games. Since then, few games have managed to capture the same sentiment as the cheeky, Peter Molyneux led…

This puzzle game leaves your fate at the roll of the dice, the difference is that in I Am Die you are the die yourself. I Am Die is a fully interactive puzzle game where you play as a die, rolling around, completing challenges and…

Palia is a newly released ‘Cozy MMO’, as dubbed by its developers at Singularity Six. After having played this game since its alpha 2 stage back in July 2022, it's certainly starting to meet that description. In Palia, you can expect to…

Brightly coloured, chaotic and cooperative, Pizza Possum is great at what it does, even if it doesn't do much of it. Pizza Possum is a game built entirely around that exact moment in stealth games where things go wrong — however, unlike…

Mechanically, this is even simpler than Mario Kart, which likely is due to its mobile game roots. There’s no accelerating here, with your steed hurtling off right from the start and automatically jumping over small obstacles. Amusingly, the…

It’s been a long time since the idea of using full motion video (FMV) as a core feature in video games first emerged, but if you’re expecting Not For Broadcast to play like Night Trap or Phantasmagoria then you’re definitely living in the…

TearDown is the most advanced voxel physics game I have ever played, in both a graphics and physics-rendering perspective.  It is also the most fun I have ever had during my time playing games on PC. Teardown is about finding your own…

Another day, another low-key strategy title makes its way to console — and this time it’s a hybrid of Surviving Mars, Aven Colony and… The Sims? Yes, you read that right — Stranded: Alien Dawn typically allows the player to work with just…

Most of your time in the game is spent walking around an environment to find a character or object so the story progresses, playing the occasional mini-game as you go. It’s nice enough, and means it’s very accessible to younger kids who…

Joking Hazard is a board game bound to be compared to Cards Against Humanity; with clear parallels between the judging and ‘not politically correct’ nature of the game. Some of the outcomes from rounds of Joking Hazard will possibly upset…