Video Game Reviews

First is the unique (for the subgenre anyway) Slime mechanic. This works a lot like a meter in many fighting games, most notably recent Mortal Kombat releases, with you building it up by hitting and being hit. Depending on how much Slime…

Luckily, the weapons are fun to use and can dispatch most opponents in just a few shots. The pistols are solid enough options, and your shotgun will destroy those annoying knights in a single blast with a little luck. I found myself leaning…

Perhaps obviously, Football Manager is back, and equally obviously, Football Manger 2024 is better than ever. Of course, whether it's good or not isn't the question, the question is how much better it is. I'm over a season into Football…

Sometimes a game comes along and builds out an existing formula, scaling up something that had felt like a finished product that couldn't be improved upon. Sometimes the thing that gets scaled up isn't even the same kind of media. ORX has…

Larger confrontations are more interesting, with you having options like clapping and bowing in the correct combination to banish your foe, or perhaps using an ally to distract them. I appreciated these more as they put a thrilling…

Warhammer 40,000 has gone a surprising amount of time since it was last pivoted into a gore-soaked boomer shooter, but Boltgun has more than made up for it, as one of perhaps the most obvious adaptations of the universe, but also one of the…

Volcano Princess is a bit of a cross between a tamagotchi game and an RPG adventure, where you need to make sure that your daughter is well taken care of and raised right, so she can become the best princess the land has ever seen. …

Mechanically, this is very simple to play, with there actually being quite limited interaction. I could see some people arguing that this is a walking simulator, a term that I’m not a fan of, but there’s a certain element of puzzle solving…

You can end up with a fleet of ships to hop in and out of when you head to home base, or you can sell them to get a new model. They feel quite different too, with powerful, armoured Vindicators being quite sluggish when compared to the…

A Castle Full of Cats is a hidden object game where you are looking for various cats within static screens to help you unlock more doors, go through lots of levels, and learn more about the cats that are living within this massive castle.…

Sometimes reinventing the wheel is as simple as realizing what each wheel does right and finessing those traits into a brand-new Mega Wheel—an ethos that translates quite well into the creation of Tenderfoot Tactics. Tenderfoot Tactics is a…

The campaigns are split into a number of missions in which you need to spread a certain amount of fear within each region of a map, amongst other objectives, allowing you to spread your message. The idea is that your protagonist — or…

The king is dead, the dukes are rebelling, corruption is rife and the towns are burning. Crimson Tactics: The Rise of the White Banner is a tribute to older turn-based tactics RPGs that puts you right at the heart of a nation on fire.…

"Earth Wins" reads the screen as the human population slides down to zero, another victory for whatever the opposite of common sense is - the human faction players spent most of their time bickering and slandering each other while the Earth…

The first thing you notice upon starting the game, and the thing that immediately attracted me to it, is just how awesome it looks. That 50s movie style is incredibly well done and permeates every element of the game. The cutscenes are…

Hell Pie, or the second coming of Conker’s Bad Fur Day, is another in a long line of indie-made 3D platformers that aim to recapture the hey-day of collecting shiny things, to, once again, mixed success.  It’s hard for me to quantify the…

In Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem, players step into the shoes of one of the Children of Heimlock — a group of orphans rescued by the Grand Inquisitor of this dark fantasy world. As their — potentially demonic — powers awaken, they are sent on a…

Most of the units you can play with here are already present in the incursion mode that was added to the base game some time ago, with only the somewhat underwhelming for the points cost Daemon Prince being a new unit. Even with that, there…

Forget beat poetry, in Verses of Enchantment you have to win magical duals by beating each other with poetry. When Verses of Enchantment was doing the press release dance there was a heavy lean on the super-cool procedural generation that…

The levelling up feels a lot fairer now too. Previously, late game enemies would give you very little experience, really stunting your levelling as a run went on. Now you seem to be rewarded much more reasonably, with stronger enemies…