Bayonetta is a distinctive, sometimes-fun hack ‘n’ slash game with a bonkers story and interesting visual aesthetics. The core fighting mechanics [...]

Adventures of Square is a granular, blocky, brightly coloured throwback shooter built in the ZDoom engine. In the level I played at PGF, I shot a lot of Circle-people, dodged some projectiles, ate a lot […]

It didn’t take me long to find Starlost, with its visual spectacle capturing the attention of several transfixed onlookers. It looks like an elaborate twin-stick shooter but (as I quickly found out) doesn’t play like […]

In the end, it’s difficult to see the point of Super Lucky’s Tale from either a commercial or critical point of view. If you (or your children) haven’t played the games that Super Lucky’s Tale […]

Personally, I’m happy with Absolver for what it is: a game of limited scope that does do one thing very well. If it leads to deeper combat systems in big-budget games down the line then, […]

In the end, I think it’s fair to say that there are two main things StarCraft: Remastered has going for it. One is nostalgia, which it feeds off simply by tastefully re-packaging StarCraft, a game […]

If you want to know whether Nidhogg 2 itself is a fun fighting game, the answer is yes, yes it is – although you will need friends, preferably local friends, to get much out of […]

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is a game that wears its limitations and shortcomings on its sleeves. It has many things about it that I don’t particularly like and yet it is also somehow very […]

To tamp it down for you: Beans is not good if you’re expecting a genuine simulator, or if you want something that relates what it’s like to work in or manage a cafe, or if […]

I realise I’ve been mostly negative about Birthdays the Beginning, which probably makes it seem like more of a shambles than it is. It isn’t terrible, it’s just dull, and it feels like it should […]