Video Game Reviews

The camera is an interesting inclusion, as it’s really the most useful piece of kit you have. This may be a side-scrolling game, but at any point you can activate your camera and take photos of anything on screen, including things that your…

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead has the advantage of having one of the best Astral Horror properties at its back, and in a time when horror is having a moment it couldn't have better timing. When I say Astral Horror, I mean that A Quiet Place…

The Silent Hill influences are all over Hollowbody, from the design of the world to the fact that someone visits an abandoned town looking for a loved one. A vehicle accident as you arrive, other characters who speak in cryptic ways, and…

Saleblazers is a survival shopkeeping game created by Airstrafe Interactive, an independent game studio founded in 2019. Now of course, as you may have realised, a genre mix of survival and shopkeeping is certainly a new concept, and a bold…

When System Shock came out in 1994, I really was too young to appreciate it. At just 11 years old, I remember popping the CD into my Pentium 166 (MMX) powered Hewlett Packard PC and shortly after, I was absolutely soiling myself. Not only…

Repetition is the greatest issue with Funko Fusion. Some of the puzzles make quite creative use of the game’s mechanics, but they tend to get used over and over again. The combat is the real issue though. You’ll be fighting so many enemies…

Accurate title! In the world of Nobody Wants to Die, absolutely nobody wants to die. This hardboiled sci-fi noir invites you into a world where death functionally doesn’t matter — providing you can afford it. As a game, the story is the…

There's that moment that happens in movies set in alien or surreal settings where the characters settle or hide on a rock or shelf of land and it suddenly rises up and reveals itself to be a massive, often harmless, beast. The Wandering…

We are always on the lookout for new games to play, in local co-op, that our eight year old will enjoy. She’s one of those kids that likes playing with others and finds video games more fun with friends. When I downloaded Crossy Road Castle…

This works in the same way as Pac-Man, with you running around mazes and collecting soul shards whilst avoiding monsters rather than ghosts. The camera is much closer in, and some of the monsters have different behaviours, but at its heart…

I really enjoyed the single mission and operations modes. Here, you can set up parameters however you want, from objectives and map type, to squad sizes and weapon firing modes. You can then set up one or two squads to take on the mission,…

Tomba! Special Edition brings one of the most memorable games of a memorable console generation to modern platforms. Up there with Vib-Ribbon, Incredible Crisis, Bishi-Bashi Special and more, it was a game that oozed creativity and…

Whilst none of the trucks seem to handle differently, they’re all visually distinct. Scratch Attack has a full on cat motif and Demo Derby looks like a giant stock car. They look nicely detailed and all have their own unique special move…

The cats have found their way to Rome and have taken all the color! Hidden Cats in Rome is another game in the Hidden Cats series, which has you looking to find a bunch of cats and restore color to their world. This time the city is — you…

I hope you like dub-step and dub-step equivalent music. Every song is very intense and falls into categories that could easily be described as adjacent to that genre. They certainly fit the theme of the world around you as you’re flying…

I have a long and potted history with the Broken Sword series — which begins back in 1997 when 14 year old me would get the bus into Leeds to trade three or four of my older games for one brand new one. Whilst I would often regret making…

A couple of months ago when I previewed Empire of the Ants, I was excited by several things — the amazing graphics, the focus on gamepad based control and the kind of things the game had me doing. There were reservations though — a couple…

A somewhat unique resource in Dead Season is that of noise. If you clobber a zombie in the head with a baseball bat it’s fairly quiet, but carve up some corpses with a chainsaw or unleash a barrage of assault rifle fire and you’ll rile up…

If you solve additional, hidden puzzles, you’ll discover other tapes that reveal more about what was going on behind the scenes of the TV show you’re exploring. Reaching an end to the game isn’t too challenging, but getting an actually…

Crayon Shin-Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is the second fusion of Crayon Shin-Chan, beloved anime, and the cult favourite Boku no Nasuyatsumi series. If I’ve lost you already, don’t worry, same. I’ve got zero familiarity with half of this…