Video Game Reviews, Articles
What is it? Beyond a Steel Sky is the long-awaited sequel to Revolution Software’s 1994 point and click adventure, Beneath a Steel Sky. In it, you reprise the role of Foster and have to revisit Union City, in search of…
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What is it? Booth is an indie dystopian management simulation game that puts you in a grey, very non-descript booth managing the flow of food into the nation. Your job is to take out all the dodgy or unsuitable items…
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What is it? Watch Dogs Legion is the third in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs series, and this time they’ve taken the game onto British soil by placing Dedsec into a dystopian London nightmare, with players tasked with rebelling against the occupying…
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I knew I couldn’t wait for this. For some reason, the Watch Dogs series has me on a hook. I got the first one after I’d finished watching the first three seasons of Person of Interest and thought it was…
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Despite being a Humble Monthly customer since it began, I’ve never actually played any of their non-DRM free games. Mostly because, after noticing it when it first came out, I completely forgot about it. And then, over the last couple…
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What is it? Sigma Theory is a casual, indie espionage game that sees you playing as the head of a shadowy government organisation comprised of a number of spies. Your task? Get ahead of the rest of the world in…
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There are times where your mind wanders, and you start to think what would happen if the government were trying to harvest some new technology to improve all of our lives – or, more likely, wage war on our neighbours….
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What is it? Beholder is a simulation game set inside a block of flats, where you play as the supervisor. Instead of a regular scenario where you go and fix leaky pipes occasionally and make sure everyone is happy, you’ve…
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What is it? Neofeud is a futuristic, dystopian point and click adventure that is set in a world that has millions of disenfranchised bionic humans, a waste product of an attempt to create perfect robots who have the ability to…
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Point and click adventures are my thing. I’ve always enjoyed them and I love it when indie studios release new games in the genre because everyone has a different take on it. Some studios try to create homages to their…
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What is it? NEON STRUCT is a first person stealth game, set in modern times, that sees you play as ex-spy Jillian Cleary attempting to clear her name in a world where she is being hunted down. It’s a decent…
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What is it? Freedom Wars is a Japanese action role playing game, set in a dystopian world where the worst crime you can commit is forgetting who you are. It’s a game that offers real time battles with a variety…
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Simulation games come in all shapes and sizes. You have the serious games that could well be used to train budding train drivers or forklift operators, then you have games that are somewhat realistic, but add a good degree of…
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