Chantelle McColl
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Spooky season had just arrived and, as a resident scaredy cat, I thought it might be fun to dip my feet into a relatively mild horror game. Yomawari: Lost in the Dark reminded me of the classic RPG horror games I played as a teen—Corpse Party, Mad Father, Ib, The...
Wayward Strand
With its eccentric elderly cast, intricate themes, unique agency mechanics and narrative structure, Wayward Strand is a compelling experience that reels you in and leaves you wanting to call your grandma.
Gerda: A flame in Winter, published by DON’T NOD and developed by PortaPlay, is ‘a tale of compassion, community, and courage, inspired by real life experiences and events.’ This narrative driven RPG-lite is a choices matter game set in WW2 that will have you reeling with its all its tricky...
Waking up in an abandoned spaceship on the outskirts of a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society, Sleeper discovers they’ve escaped the evil clutches of their creator Essen-Arp. However, trapped in a decaying artificial body that was never designed to attain freedom, Sleeper must find a way...
Parallel universes are dangerous, chaotic, and unpredictable, but exploring them has never been as fun as Studio Voyager’s What Lies in the Multiverse. Always teetering on the edge of dark and distressing themes, but never quite taking the full plunge, this puzzle-platformer is a dark dramatic comedy combined with unique...
Be inducted into a corrupt League of Wizards, find true love as a horse, bench press baddies as a Bodybuilder, and create an army of undead as a Zombie—Nobody Saves the World is the newest zany hack and slash game by Guacamelee! developer Drinkbox Studios.
Waking from a long slumber, the Priestess Ina finds herself trapped in a decaying Tower longing for her homeland Kamiura. Intent on escaping, Ina must traverse the many regions of the Tower, acquire help from eccentric prisoners, decipher difficult puzzles, and flee from the Tower willing to do anything to...
Revelling in an eerie Tim Burton-esque style, Tandem: A Tale of Two Shadows, developed by Monochrome Paris, uses its surreal and detailed design to create visually unique puzzles that force you to utilize the entirety of each level. Steadily introducing new ideas across the 5 different regions—the Gardens, Boiler Room,...