Veterans of other golf games will find something new when stepping up to the green; the game plays more like 3D snooker, emphasising trick shots and precision to land home without accumulating a stratospheric high score. The game…
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It’s pretty safe to say that PC indie gaming is currently in the grip of a serious nostalgia boom, with every second game released seeming to opt for 8 or 16 bit graphics, old fashioned platforming mechanics or something of the l…
Crypt of the NecroDancer is not the first game to fuse dungeon crawling and rhythm action the rather charming Sequence (Now known as Before the Echo thanks to a copyright claim) did it a few years back but it most definitely the …
Providing an initial sense of purpose is something that grand-scale RPGs have historically struggled to do. For all the merits of The Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age and Final Fantasy, it’s not unusual for their opening hours to be mar…
There are a great many instances in which having a disembodied voice narrating your every move would be profoundly irritating: public speaking, late-night toilet trips, assembling furniture… But as Bastion demonstrates with whisk…
Were there a sports-style rankings system for #firstworldproblems, The Show developer Sony San Diego’s current plight would surely perch close to its summit. So great has its baseball series become over the last decade, so close …
Oh Ezio, what have you become? While this could be a question validly posed to the entire franchise, it can actually be answered when it comes to 2.5D side-scroller Chronicles: China . Neatly tying into the AC Embers short film,…
Sometimes on a rainy day, ol’ Phil sits in his rocking chair and thinks back to 2013’s Master reboot, an unpolished gem from wales interactive that offers horror/puzzling experiences like no other. infinity runner… isn’t like tha…
The planet Lumenox’s four deities Dawn, Day, Night and Dusk have lived in perfect balance for centuries, a balance struck after a great war between them. But when Night starts getting greedy, wanting more time in control, Dawn re…
The sport of pool, the one where you have to hit red or yellow (or solids and striped) balls into the pockets on a billiards table, is exciting on its own, but it’s incredibly hard to get right as a console game. Pool Nation FX, …
I’ll be the first one to tell you that I know nothing about Dungeons & Dragons. I know it is an RPG-board game-thingy made by the Wizards of the Coast, but as far as anything else goes, I have zip. Nada. Nothing. That probabl…
Roguelike games aren’t likely to disappear any time soon in fact, the quasi-genre is starting to span other genres quite a lot, so we’re seeing more and more games that are less and less like the original Rogue game that spawned …
MonsterBag is part of the growing number of indie games that shows that the gaming community at large enjoys the creativity of smaller design studios, in addition to appreciating the big name blockbusters. The fact is that the ve…
At its worst, The Hunter: Primal lets you win knife fights with Utahraptors. Standing taller than a man, these intelligent pack hunters are unable to turn faster than you can strafe. They rotate on the spot, displaced cries loop…
Just as her first act did, the second part of Vella’s Broken Age story opens with a knife. But rather than searching for cutlery with which to slice a cake, she instead narrowly avoids being shivved by a talking blade from Shay’…
Here’s something we never thought we’d print: Mortal Kombat X is nice. It can still be deeply unpleasant when it wants to be and it wants to be that an awful lot but there are some heartening moments within the game’s five-hour …
The elevator pitch for Bloodsports TV must have been something along the lines of, “Imagine a MOBA that’s also a Tower Defence game that’s also Smash TV but with a reality TV spin”. That one line pretty much sums up Bloodsports T…
Can we still call visual novels niche? Virtue’s Last Reward and Danganronpa, both similarly arriving in Europe on Sony’s PS Vita, would suggest not, consistently sitting at the top of the PSN download best seller lists. This, how…
In recent years, the notion of interacting with your favourite game universe via a variety of means has become increasingly popular. Companion apps, comic books and free-to-play spin-offs for a number of high-profile titles have …
Pillars Of Eternity is an homage to a bygone age: a time when developers knew what ‘tactical role-playing combat’ actually meant. This is a 2D isometric RPG where every skill point, piece of equipment, ability and decision matte…
