Video Game Reviews, Articles
I think it’s cyberpunk month or something, as it feels like that’s all I’ve been playing of late. Cloudpunk was a minor disappointment, but I had high hopes for VirtuaVerse. It’s a game I actually first saw on Reddit, but…
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With at least one more film coming, a comic adaptation already in circulation and a rumoured TV series in the works, the real question is why it’s taken so long for John Wick to brute force his way into video…
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Games that feature anthropomorphic animals aren’t usually my bag. My experience with them has mainly been one of overtly sexualised furries where you would least expect it, and I can never usually get through those games because I’ve cringed my…
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Drifting through space with just a brain implant to keep you company is probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but it does make for an excellent premise for a game. Crew 167: The Grand Block Odyssey is a puzzle game…
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What is it? Convoy: A Tactical Roguelike is a squad-based, tactical roguelike, where you travel with your crew of combat vehicles across a wasteland to find parts needed to repair your downed spaceship. You control your convoy, searching the map…
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So I will admit, my quest for the year to complete fifty games I’d never played before is not exactly going well. I seem to be stuck playing the same games repeatedly, because they either have no end or I’m…
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Box VR is a no-frills virtual reality training simulator from FitXR. While, strictly speaking, it falls more into the app category than games, Box VR does harness many staples from the rhythm game genre to make it more enjoyable than…
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What is it? House of Golf is an indie mini-golf game set in the various rooms of someone’s house. It has both single player and multiplayer, and plenty of different balls to unlock and courses to play. Platform(s) Switch Pros…
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What is it? Stay is an indie, creepy, pixel art story that sees you play as an unseen man on the other side of a computer monitor. All you do is respond to the computer’s conversation, and try to help…
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Normally, games advertise themselves as having tremendous length and replayability. Developers – quite rightly – want to try to persuade you that you’re getting more bang for your buck with their game at ten quid than you would at another…
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Another game on my list to complete this year is Desert Child, an indie racing game which sees you play as a penniless hoverbike rider trying to reach the upper echelons of the racing world and eventually make it from…
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What is it? Save Koch is an indie simulation game that puts you in the role of a mob boss whose life is threatened by an unknown entity. You have to talk to all of your friends, and enemies, and…
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What is it? Headliner: NoviNews is a game that puts you in charge of the main news channel for a country. You can choose to lean to the left, right or centre and your actions on the news has a…
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In a gaming landscape where ‘games as a service’ is a constant AAA developer mantra and the video games that don’t fall under that umbrella are (more often than not) exhausting open-world time-sinks, Journey to the Savage Planet is a…
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I set myself a New Year’s Resolution to play at least thirty games on my backlog this year, not necessarily to 100% completion, but certainly to finish off the main story. The first of the games I chose was one…
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