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Upbeat adventure Journey to the Savage Planet is a bright delight
The graphics are bright and friendly. Other than base environmental items like rock and grass, it’s all very alien and unique giving you a great sense of discovery as you turn a corner to find another new plant or animal.
Pret-a-Porter receives a stylish new look, but does its vintage gameplay still appeal?
A popular and often sought after release, Pret-a-Porter has just been printed for a third time by Portal Games. But how does this fashion themed economic game continue to draw in the crowds almost ten years after its original release?…
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is hard to resist.
Following on from its smash-hit series, Baldur’s Gate & Icewind Dale, BioWare dropped another classic in July of 2002 by shifting their storytelling prowess into 3D for the first time and injected a friendlier Dungeons & Dragons 3rd…
Lost Ember is a game that fizzles and dies before ever bursting into flame
Lost Ember has all the hallmarks of a critical darling — and you only need to look at its Metacritic and Steam ratings for confirmation. Unfortunately, for me, it was yet another walking simulator with a twist. Yes, I’m sorry to preempt my…
Puzzle & Dragons Gold — A Puzzling Effort
A series already well established on Nintendo’s 3DS, Apple iOS and Android mobile, Puzzle & Dragon Gold takes team vs team combat and mixes it with match-three mechanics to form hybrid puzzle battler.
Sparklite — The Legend of Zelda inspired Rogue-lite !
Sparklite has a great premise, some great pixel graphics and a soundtrack that didn’t make me want to throw the controller at the TV after the 10th run but it ultimately doesn’t take all the ingredients it has on offer to make an astounding…
Battlelands: Aftermath Edition — simplicity and accessibility yet a lack of depth
Battlelands: Aftermath Edition is a card game that pits players against each other in a series of battles that will determine the outcome of a post-apocalyptic war. Players must manage their resources from battle to battle, choosing when to…
Azul: Summer Pavillion is the ultimate expression of Michael Kieslings’ grand design
With so much praise lavished on the first two games and such a simple game concept to work with, I couldn’t imagine how Azul: Summer Pavilion could possibly have improved on the first two games, yet somehow, it has. After all, just a…
Children of Zodiarcs — A rich tactical experience with plenty of heart to spare
Children of Zodiarcs is a turn-based, strategic JRPG in which the player must manage a hand of cards and a fistful of dice for each character they control, blending the worlds of video and traditional board gaming.
AVICII Invector — Musical spaceships
At its most basic AVICII Invector is like a cross between Guitar Hero and Amplitude, with you moving your ship left and right on a track to line up with a button that you then press in time to the music. Then there are sections that are…
Jackbox Party Pack 6 — Bringing the party pack back
Once again, a Jackbox Party Pack has a couple of outstanding games and a couple of weaker ones. The handful of great games kept us entertained quite nicely, and the more disappointing ones were simply ignored after a couple of rounds.
Warhammer Quest II — The End Times works on mobile, but ported?
Warhammer Quest II — The End Times is the provocatively named sequel to, erm, Warhammer Quest and much like the board game it is based upon, it presents a combat-focused dungeon crawling experience with light RPG elements. Sounds good…
Effie — Old Fashioned Tales
An old school 3D Platformer adventure, told by an old guy chatting to his kid. How delightfully meta!
Crimson Company might be the small box card game that you’ll want to spend the night with!
Crimson Company is a small box card game that centres around wagering cash and recruiting troops in order to secure control of two out of three central castles. The version you see in these pictures is the Deluxe Edition which features…
Dawn of Man takes Xbox One back to pre-history
Dawn of Man is an ambitious and relatively serious simulation about the earliest stages of the development of humankind that is an unusual fit for consoles. Despite its muddy colours and slow gameplay, however, there’s an addictiveness to…
EarthNight — An Okay Night In
The hand painted auto runner which isn't quite a masterwork.
Don’t Die, Minerva! — Too Cute to Spook
The New Year may be a blurry memory, and Halloween is just a vague shadow in the distant future, but that doesn’t stop the spookiness from flowing and a good ghost story from being told. Although far from spine chilling, this cutesy, spooky…
Fry Thief — Who would want a salad anyway?
When it comes to a choice between a salad or a pile of fries I know exactly what I am going to order. In Fry Thief, a two player game, one of you has made the silly choice of purchasing a salad but now wants to steal some fries from the…
Paranormal Detectives — party guests from the other side
Whilst I don’t play tons of party games, I tend to favour those which rank as at least “mid-tier” in terms of the complexity. I’d much rather invest a bit more time and effort into a crunchier game, and I suppose in general that’s why I…
Shovel Knight: King of Cards — My kingdom for a good Joustus deck
Shovel Knight: King of Cards tells the story of King Knight and his quest to win a tournament against three other kings in order to be the greatest king of them all.