Review by Matt C. Flood of Light is one of the most beautiful games I’ve played in a long time. Set in a future where endless rain has flooded the world and wiped out humanity, it paints a vision of an oddly calming dystopia: the rain beats down on the…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. I am honestly not sure what I thought when I picked up Escape From Chernobyl. It’s developed by Atypical Games, the company behind Radiation Island… and it’s pretty much Radiation Island with a much darker location and general feel. The problem is, the developers decided to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Just think about this; the Yakuza series was once very, very niche outside of Japan. Now, this is the fourth title released in English in the past two years. Something has clicked with players, and SEGA has been ready to capitalise in a big way. Related…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. It is hard to believe that the original Guacamelee! came out five years ago. The amazing 2D platformer that took inspiration from things as wide-ranging as Mexican culture and the Metroid series is still one of the best finest games in the past decade. Thankfully, Guacamelee!…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Bad North’s description: “minimalistic, real-time tactics roguelite,” sounds like it’s the latest in the ongoing irritating habit that indie developers have to throw every buzzword they can think of into their descriptions. It’s almost always a desperate bid to try and make their game stand out…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. R.A Salvatore, the author of the Dungeons & Dragons Drizzt Do’Urden novels, is not one of the great philosophers of all time, but his books always have a bit of philosophical reflection in them to open each chapter. His reflections on nostalgia, found in one of…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Nostalgia-bait is all the rage at the moment, across seemingly every medium. From Stranger Things to that Ghostbusters reboot to all those NES-style retro platformers at keep popping up, there’s this fixation on ’80s pop culture. When those references work in concert with the narrative to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We Happy Few is a little like No Man’s Sky. I don’t mean in terms of the kind of game it is, of course, but it seems to have become another example of something that failed to deliver what players expected, and that failure has become…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I love XCOM. I love James Bond. I love Phantom Doctrine. It’s simplifying things a touch to say that Phantom Doctrine is the blend of XCOM and James Bond, but it’s a close enough description to what’s on offer. In this game you take over a…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Titan Quest is one of the better “Diablo clones” to come out in the wake of Blizzard’s hit action RPG. Originally released in 2006, it sticks closely to the hack-and-slash combat and deep character customisation that came to define the Diablo series, but trades the hellish…
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