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Whimside is a creature catching, and breeding game with a lot going on
Capture, nurture and breed cute creatures as you explore the whimsical world of Whimside. The idle desktop game movement is now in full swing, a year on from Rusty's Retirement we're at a point where there are some serious choices to be…
Backroom Company – A New Twist in No-Clip Hell
Backroom Company takes your usual chaotic, backroom adventure and adds in a slice of corporate greed. With a great mix of puzzles, looping gameplay and randomly generated maps it has a lot to offer. When approaching Backroom Company I was…
Discounty puts you at the helm of a supermarket franchise expanding into a new town
A month doesn't pass by without some twist on retail simulation or slice of life city-to-town life releasing. Discounty takes you away from the big city, to a job in a town that's been left behind by the world. Ah, that moment as you first…
Vicious Gardens is a malicious, set-building, gardening showdown
Race to grow and harvest from your garden all while trying to outmanoeuvre other gardeners in Vicious Gardens. Vicious Gardens challenges players to quickly build sets of plants in order to fulfil orders, however the same plants that allow…
Edifier R1 – Open your ears
Whilst the Edifier R1 feels a little odd at first, it doesn’t take long for you to stop noticing that you have them on, and it was only when I went to adjust them that I realised where they were positioned. Equally, they’re surprisingly…
Vantage challenges you to survive together on a mysterious planet
In Vantage you and your crew mates have crash landed on a strange and mysterious planet, each of you at different locations. You will need to work together, describing what you see so that others can offer expertise and advice as you…
Killing Floor 3 – Corporate Zombie Slaughter
After many years of slaughtering zeds through Killing Floor 1 and 2 we've finally come to the third installment: Killing Floor 3. It comes complete with buckets of limbs, blood and gore as well as a variety of new customisation options and……
Dead by Daylight – The Walking Dead Chapter – All Hail Rebar Jim
Dead by Daylight continues to churn out content, and as you may have read from my previous review of DbD and its Five Nights at Freddy's chapter, I am a huge, huge fan of this franchise. I'll do my best to set my bias aside in this review,…
Sulfur — Keeping it Close Quarters With The Melee Update
Sulfur — the highly successful dungeon crawler roguelite, not the element — has recently had a new update focused on melee weapons. Four new weapons to be exact, which grace our favourite cultist-fighting priest’s hands and can now be found…
9 Kings is an engine-builder all about army and base optimisation
9 Kings simplifies base-building down to an almost entirely pure form by bringing in auto battler mechanics and silly numbers. As regular readers of the site will know, we zig-zag the lines between board games and video games on the…
Luto – Good grief
I think it’s the sort of game where you need to go into it blind and experience all of its insanity with as little background knowledge as possible.
Flashpoint: Legacy of Flame is a long-awaited update to a cooperative classic
There was a moment in Flashpoint: Legacy of Flame — I think around the third or fourth mission — when I realised that I wasn't playing a rehash of the original Flashpoint: Fire Rescue, but something more akin to the culmination of 15 years…
The PXN-P5 8K is the budget friendly but premium controller you might be waiting for
There was a time when buying a third-party controller felt like a massive gamble. You’d pick up something half the price of a first-party pad, only to discover it had the ergonomics of a brick, the responsiveness of a sponge, and the…
Moga XP-Ultra Controller Review
I don’t always use a controller for PC gaming, but sometimes — when you just want a bit more precise movement to one of your Souls-likes or have a bit more control over vehicles in GTA and feel the rumble through your hands — then…
Junior Tension is an easy to play family trivia game for ages 6+
If you normally sit there, shouting answers at the TV during quiz shows or happen to be a master of memory, then Junior Tension, and its non-kids version Tension, is a great game for you and your younger children. Specifically aimed at 6+…
Raccoin is a coin-pusher twist on the winning Balatro formula
When you strike gold, you often find more nearby. That's the hope for PlayStack, it would seem, who are back with their next publishing attempt after Balatro. In an attempt to hold onto the bottled lightning of 'hypnotic twist on a classic'…
Faceminer is an incremental twist on training facial recognition software
Boot up your computer, power up your dial-up modem and get ready to become a Faceminer in an alternative-history's dotcom boom. Ah, 1999. Existentialism flooding the cinemas, the UK introducing a minimum wage, a fear of the millennium bug…
Frostpunk 2 expands macro-survival into post-apocalyptic civilization builder
The original Frostpunk was a masterclass in moral compromise. It asked players not just how they would survive, but what they were willing to sacrifice to do so. Now, Frostpunk 2 arrives with a colder heart and a broader scope, trading the…
The Night Shift – Looking shifty
Making things trickier are the mannequins that at first simply stand around. Some of them are active, whilst others are aggressive but it won’t be clear which are which until they actually become active. Your objectives will funnel you in…
Kinfire Council is a 2025 GOTY contender, and it’s only September!
Kevin Wilson has designed a lot of games over the years, but few feel as immediately confident and mechanically rich as Kinfire Council. This is a game that knows exactly what it is trying to be — an asymmetric, competitive worker placement…