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Tools Up! Season 1: Garden Party — We now have plants!
After having quite a bit of fun with Tools Up! I was pleasantly surprised when the developers announced a Garden Party DLC, which includes three drops of content. The first episode is the only one that’s out, and has just launched,…
Tasomachi: Behind The Twilight Shines Bright
Tasomachi: Behind The Twilight shines light on breathtaking landscapes and an oft forgotten genre.
3 Out of 10 Season 2 — Even has a sewer level
The second season begins where the previous one left off, with the team investigating the break in that occurred at the end of the final episode. All the previous cast are present, from bungling CEO Jeb to weird, possibly non-human Pylon.
Adios — Goodbye, Friendo
Spending an hour with a farmer: a man filled with the deepest sorrows, a man whose only friends are animals and mobsters. To be put in those shoes, to hear about his chestnut tree, his All-American Pigs, the gentle twang of his voice as he…
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town — Alpaca your bags!
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town has a simple set up - you leave the hustling, bustling chaos of the city and inherit your old grandpa’s mysteriously untitled farm. Something I love about these games is how contrived they can be in…
Zombieland: Headshot Fever — Fast Frantic VR Arcade Fun
Taking place within the cinematic universe of the Zombieland series, your character is taken under the wing of the film’s unlikely crew and tutored in the art of zombie slaying whilst working toward entry in a global tournament
Pathologic 2 — A Strange Nightmare
I’ve often wondered about the original Pathologic game and even gone so far as to try and play it. I didn’t get far, it is a cruel, cruel thing. But I adored it from a distance, this weird strange game. I saw Pathologic 2’s announcement of…
Tennis World Tour 2 — Grand Slam or Double Fault ?
Looking beautiful, sounding great and with an authentic feel to it, Tennis World Tour 2 is an excellent take on the Tennis circuit whilst the addition of the card mechanic offers further strategy to a mainly action based game.
3 Out of 10 — Not as good at The Witcher 3
The game plays out mostly in cutscenes, interspersed with exploration and mini-games. When exploring, you’ll often need to find a specific item to use or person to speak to by wandering around the small environment you’re currently in.…
Start a (very slow) new life in the woods in Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
Sharing your new land with marauders, giant spiders and wood stealing wolves. While the game offers a lot of challenges, pacing really puts a damper on your experience in this survival management sim.
Flow Weaver — Sci-Fi Fantasy Escape Room
Waking in a cell situated in what looks to be a castle tower, you are quickly introduced to the flows of magic in this dimension. Given your mystical training it’s possible to weave these flows to your advantage to solve a number of puzzles…
Can’t Drive This — Building tracks like Wallace and Gromit
The driver’s job is to drive as far and for as long as possible, without their car exploding due to travelling too slowly, or falling off the track to their death. The builder’s job is to construct the track in real time using square tiles…
Dorfromantik — Mindfulness and strategy collide in a peaceful building game
Toukana Interactive’s Early Access offering, Dorfromantik, is a peaceful light-strategy game about building up a small slice of bucolic heaven on your PC. Players must place down tiles containing different landscape elements and try and…
Breathedge — Space Survival Comedy
Recent survival simulators have explored forests, jungles and even the deepest oceans but Breathedge mixes things up in zero gravity from the beginning with a deep space setting.
Spacebase Startopia is a welcome return for an almost forgotten simulation classic
When intergalactic travel is possible, and many, varied races co-exist in peace, places need to exist for them to rest, recuperate and spend their hard-earned cash. In Spacebase Startopia you are a commander on an intergalactic rest-stop,…
Dandy Ace is a fast-paced roguelike that will put a spell on you
Some games have an incredible ability to drive you mad with anger and frustration, whilst also giving you some of the most satisfying victories, and still being so engaging that you can't help but have 'one more try'. Dandy Ace embodies…
Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure — Play pretend with Disney Characters.
If you are a fan of Disney, then you probably have seen most of the characters in Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure. This game, aimed at younger children, contains a bunch of mini-games that are from Disney movies like The Incredibles,…
Island Saver is a game all about saving money and the environment
Often when non-games companies produce games to promote their other services, sometimes they can end up being unfun and acting like a giant advertisement that is just slightly interactive. I always do an internal sigh when I start to open…
Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition — I didn’t even learn math.
To be completely honest, I have never played Frog Fractions before, because why would I have? I hate fractions. I am not a big fan of frogs, why would I want to play a math game. As it turns out, Frog Fractions has some bad branding, as you…
It’s a hard-knock life for Sir Brante in The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Think you have what it takes to turn a bad situation around? Take hold of Sir Brante’s life and you’ll soon think otherwise.