Video Game Reviews, Articles
Surfacing from the depths of an energy-drink-fuelled brainstorming fever dream (presumably), Maneater, an open-world action-RPG where the main protagonist is a shark, is a bloodthirsty concept that never really sinks its teeth into its absurd premise, ultimately delivering shallow, repetitive…
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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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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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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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Few games have had me as intrigued as Headliner: NoviNews. I’ve played various simulation-type games, but not too many visual novels, and Headliner seemed like a mix of the both of them. I’d seen it when it released on PC,…
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I’ve actually been playing quite a few games lately, and although I wasn’t necessarily looking for something, Frog Detective 2 came to me and, given it was only an hour in length, I couldn’t really resist it. It ticked a…
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Do you ever feel like games development companies are trying to brainwash the public with their games? Constant wearing us down to spending all of our hard earned cash in their games? Have you ever wanted to infiltrate them, murder…
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Randomly generated? Tick. “Deep” stat driven loot system? Tick. Indie? Of course that’s a tick. That’s pretty much the big three ticked off for any rogue-lite game these days. Every indie seems to start off by creating a rogue-lite game,…
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What is it? Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery is an isometric puzzle game for mobile devices, that sees you try to solve a mystery in a small town. Platform(s) Android & iOS Pros Cons Interesting puzzles. Plenty of places to…
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