Christian Donlan
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Rock Paper ShotgunLatest Reviews
Thumper
Great art and a distinct approach to rhythm action makes this a brilliantly horrible twitch experience.
Virginia
Virginia's an astonishing piece of narrative design, and a game that goes where few others are capable of following.
The Turing Test
A playful examination of the relationship between human and machine, and a focused, entertaining puzzler.
Inside
Playdead's follow-up to Limbo is a superior game in every way.
Alienation
Housemarque's latest offers brilliant loot and levelling, but it's the moment-to-moment action that truly excels.
Darkest Dungeon
Punishing and beautifully crafted, Darkest Dungeon is cruelty at its classiest.
SteamWorld Heist
Free aiming and ricochet shots bring wild life to this exquisite turn-based blaster.
The spiritual successor to Dear Esther transcends the original in every way.
Invisible, Inc.
Klei turns its hand to turn-based stealth - and the results are beautiful.
Ironcast
The gem-matching's pretty simple, but the strategy is surprisingly complex.
And yet beneath the mis-steps and the schmaltz, and beneath the dictatorial heft of the soundtrack - gorgeous and emotive, but laid on a little too heavily throughout - there's still that fascinating glimpse of a boy making the best of a lonely childhood. A boy in search of escape...
It certainly pulled me through, anyway, marvelling at the gentle cues strung through such a seemingly roomy world, pondering the strange integrity of a game that's at its best when it's kicked itself free of genre, of easy pigeonholes, of combat loops and of so many of the other things...
