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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Evil Scarecrow, The Globe, Cardiff, 26/03/22
Evil Scarecrow at The Globe in Cardiff rates as not only one of the best gigs I’ve been to this year. But one of the best gigs I have ever been to in my twenty-odd years of seeing live music….
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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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Nordic Giants, Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, 28/02/22
There’s something ethereal about a Nordic Giants performance. As the two imposing figures of Löki and Rôka take to the stage at Clwb Ifor Bach, the pair, decked out in costumes that make them look like mythical figures from an…
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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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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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Model Builder review – Precision Modelling Ad Tedium
… deeply, brutally unfun to “play”, much like real model building, but lacking any of the meditative qualities.
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Beyond a Steel Sky Review – All about that…
Did you know, popular singer, Meghan Trainor is a huge fan of point and click adventure games? Ever since she bought her Amiga 500 off Britney Spears at a car boot sale in Cleckheaton, she was hooked. Her hit song,…
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments review – The game is afoot
If like me, you think that Stephen Moffat should be thrown into the Thames for crimes against literary fiction, you’ll probably enjoy Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments. Frogwares’ take on Holmes brings it back to Conan Doyle’s original text. Although it’s…
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SNK vs Capcom Card Fighters’ Clash review – Need, need, need, got
The Neo Geo Pocket Colour was one of those handhelds I thought looked neat but never had the cash or time to get one. So seeing SNK bring back some of the short-lived handheld’s best titles to the Switch has…
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The Artful Escape review – Encore
Beethoven & Dinosaur’s The Artful Escape is a platformer adventure rhythm game like no other. Written by ex-Galvatrons-frontman Johnny Galvatron, the closest comparison I could make is that The Artful Escape is a bit like a Night in The Woods. As in it’s a bit like…
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