While its anime-inspired narrative falters off the track, on it Milestone's daring, quasi-futuristic reboot to the 90's arcade-racer series, just about wins through. Providing enough of a learning cur...

It's funny to me that some of the most acclaimed puzzle games are those that, in a way, refuse to shy away from their own perceived ridiculousness. Better still: in so far as their initial set-up goes...

Despite its far from fully-formed narrative – on top of a questionable weird for weird's sake interjection at points – Love Eternal's visual, audible and (unexpected) mechanical twists, grant this pre...

Eagerly awaited and something one longs to find they may be, demos that hook you from the word go, remain a cautious double-edged sword. Find something that not only draws you in, but keeps you fixate...

Not for the first time that so soon after establishing this domain, I find myself taking solace – and more importantly, modest enjoyment – in a game (perhaps unknowingly) benefiting from a more high-p...

Developer Douze Dixièmes' foray into Metroidvania exploration and discovery, is nothing short of brilliant. Structurally curious yet thematically moving, MIO: Memories in Orbit has made an almighty ca...

Challenging, unforgiving and incredibly rewarding as a result, Death Howl's imposing atmosphere and artistic direction, make this a truly stand-out souls-like/deck-builder hybrid for the ages. One una...

"Oh you thought you'd outwitted us and managed to escape?" publisher Future Friends Games, I suspect, muttered with gleeful intent (though admittedly have zero proof to validate). "Fool! There was nev...

Fiendish addiction paves the way to a slot-machine roguelike jam-packed with clever mechanics, ample dopamine hits and just the right assortment of small details to appreciate. With CloverPit, Panik A...

Charming style, delightfully revelatory puzzles and one of the best executions of slowly revealing key mechanics to its players. Developer Nama Takahashi has done it yet again: Öoo is pure, puzzle-pla...

A plentiful number of interesting rules, wrapped around an elegantly minimalist aesthetic, makes Cipher Zero an easy recommendation for logic-tinkering, puzzle fans. Its communication isn't flawless, ...

Despite an overburdening start – brimming with systems and mechanics to grasp – and momentary technical issues, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers' extensive build depth and nods to Soulslikes' subtler qualitie...

No matter the genre, no matter the size and stature of that which is revered so, whenever a game releases that attracts so much of both a critical and cultural zeitgeist, sooner or later there are bou...

Maybe it's the three word onomatopoeia-like punctuating effect these words have: fli-CK, sho-T, ro-GUES. Maybe it's the fact each of these words are consigned to a single syllable, thus rendering it a...

Unlike a lot of people, I was fairly late to getting all-but-lost in the intensely-addictive, intensly-moreish cycle of "one more go, then I'll quit I swear" that was (and most likely still is) Vampir...

"Öoo" – the name of Japanese developer Nama Takahashi follow-up to the brilliantly-minimal yet cleverly-constructed puzzle-platformer ElecHead. But also the first sound one made upon discovery that sa...

Pocket Trap's yo-yo themed adventure lands firmly in the realm of entertaining, let alone evocatively nostalgic.

"One more pull, one more pull!" When I was younger (for clarity, I'm talking pre-double figures here), one of my most prized toys/gadgets was this miniature slot machine. Small, but technically fun...

Combining the restrictiveness of first-person dungeon-crawling, with the psychological dread of early 3D survival-horror greatest strides, solo developer J. R. Hudepohl pulls no punches with a game th...

Deciding how best to start this introductory piece has, no joke, probably been one of the hardest things to wrap my head around these past three months. More difficult than getting an actual web page ...