If you’re looking for another retro-styled racer to add to what is admittedly a healthy selection on the Switch, Slipstream might be the 1980s styled off-brand super-car racer for you. It’s clear from the off that Slipstream’s main influences are SEGAs…
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LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga review – The Laugh Jedi
It’s weird to think 17 years have passed since the original LEGO Star Wars game hit the PS2 and TT Games seemingly achieved the impossible – make the prequel trilogy not completely suck. A combination of brilliant brick-based buffoonery, simple…
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A Painter’s Tale: Curon 1950 review – The pursuit of happiness
Storytime! Northwest of Bolzano, the Alpine capital of Tyrol, is the town of Graun im Vinschgau, known as Curon Venosta in Italian. This town, which borders Reschensee lake is the second town called Curon in the area; the original Curon…
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Never Alone: Arctic Collection review – Keep your hood up
Some games feel important. Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) is one of those games. Comprising both the original game and the Fox Tales DLC, Never Alone: Arctic Collection is the best way to play this groundbreaking game. On the surface, it’s a relatively…
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Infernax review – Simon’s Jest
Five minutes into Infernax, I came across a familiar and suspicious-looking cliffside. I was there back in 2006 when James Rolfe got all cholic about the secret whirlwind in Simon’s Quest, and I was no stranger to the gameplay and…
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Eternal Hope review – An essay on man
Eternal Hope tells a tale as old as time. You are a little lonely boy, living in a world of darkness and shadows. One day, you meet a little girl, and the two of you bond, meeting every day. Suddenly,…
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République: Anniversary Edition review – Big Brother
As a fan of all things dystopian, Republique is a game that should be my cup of tea. Blending themes from classic novels such as Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave New World and Gibson’s Neuromancer, it’s a unique approach to the stealth genre in which the player controls both…
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The Ascent review – 16 tonnes
Jeff Bezos recently declared his intention to move all industry onto corporate-owned off-world colonies. Neon Giant’s The Ascent is pretty much a treaty on what a terrible idea that is. A stunning isometric cyberpunk action RPG, The Ascent was created by a team…
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Submerged: Hidden Depths review – The joy is in the journey
Sometimes it’s nice to take a break from murdering every last thing you see in a game and just enjoy exploring a beautiful world and uncovering its secrets. If you have grown a bit tired of being stomped into a…
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Martha is Dead review – Well that took a turn
It’s been hours since the Credits rolled on Martha is Dead, and I still can’t stop thinking about it. It feels like I’ve been hit by a truck. Martha is Dead is undoubtedly one of the best games of the year, but it’s…
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Powerslave Exhumed review – ‘Aliens’
Nightdive studios have an uncanny gift for Exhuming classic games and breathing new life into them. Clearly on a roll after bringing back Shadowman last month, Nightdive is back with a remaster of arguably one of the best console FPS…
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Castle Morihisa review – Believe it
Put on your Kabuki mask, grasp a katana in your teeth, and get ready to Naruto run, it’s Castle Morihisa time! <David knocks himself out ninja-running straight into a wall> Ouch. Ok. So. In Castle Morihisa, you take control of…
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Popslinger review – Urrrp
Funky Can Creative’s Popslinger is a great-looking game with some very cool ideas and a great premise. However, as much as there is to like about Popslinger, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that it is more than a little rough around the edges. …
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The Procession to Calvary review – My Massive sword
Well, I’m a bit late to The Procession to Calvary party. I mean, I was here, nice and early, on day one, playing Procession to Calvary on its Xbox Game Pass release day. It was excellent, and I highly recommended it but passed on a…
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Grapple Dog review – Good boy
Grapple Dog is a bright and breezy live letter to the platformers of yesteryear. The canine homunculus of Donkey Kong Country, Yoshi’s Island, Bionic Commando, and much more besides. But, you know, cute. Players take on the role of…
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Vagante review – Are you afraid of the dark?
The Roguelike genre has exploded in the past decade. It seems like not a week goes by that some new procedurally generated dungeon crawler doesn’t find its way onto virtual shop fronts. Enter stage left, Nuke Nine’s Vagante, a rather charming…
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