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Days Gone
Days Gone has the weight of the world on its shoulders as a PlayStation first-party release. With God of War and Spider-Man just to name a couple and a strong E3 reveal a couple of years ago, it’s finally with us, but expectations from such high-quality games last year work...
Mortal Kombat 11
Starting its life back in 1992, a mere month before I was born, was the now infamous Mortal Kombat series. This is a franchise that has helped define fighting games as we now know them and it still stands strong as a pillar of the genre. 27 years later and...
Yuppie Psycho
With games like Dead by Daylight and the Resident Evil 2 remake using powerful graphics to bring us some heavy-duty scares, it’s always good to remember that it’s not all about gore and misery. Yuppie Psycho takes a satirical approach instead, to create the first ever ‘corporate horror’ game. It takes...
My Time at Portia
My Time at Portia comes in after a surge in popularity in the “life simulation” genre of gaming, popularised specifically by the runaway success of Stardew Valley after foundations were laid in Harvest Moon decades ago. After being in Early Access on PC for a year and gaining all the...
Box Boy! + Box Girl!
When the Boxboy series first broke onto the scene back in 2015 on the Nintendo DS, it innovated a new and interesting way of puzzles in gaming. It took a simple art style and easy enough concept and accelerated it to 100, finding bizarre ways for the user to use...
SteamWorld Heist
Image & Form Games released one of my favourite indie games back in 2017, SteamWorld Dig 2. This game had a simple look but utilised some deep mechanics and always had me pushing just that little bit further to mine for more and more minerals. I fell in love with...
Originally released back in 2012, Capcom’s open world fantasy RPG, Dragon’s Dogma, didn’t get much of a chance. Releasing near many other major releases, and making players buy it again for the Dark Arisen expansion, ensured that the game didn’t quite live up to Capcom’s initial sales expectations. However, it...
World War Z
Hey remember that Brad Pitt zombie movie World War Z? It had big plans and was going to set the world on fire with its adaptation of a beloved novel that balanced horrific and heartbreaking imagery with believable world building? Then I am sure you’ll remember all of its success,...
The Princess Guide
The Princes Guide is an oddity. Part strategy, part visual novel, and part action RPG. The game feels like a mixed bag of mechanics, sown together in to the video game equivalent of Frankenstein’s Monster. There are parts to The Princess Guide that work well, and then there are others...
Trüberbrook
It’s clear from the opening moments: my time with Trüberbrook was destined to be zany, trope-filled fun. It’s hard to ignore after all, the first scene sees us discover Gretchen, a paleoanthropologist that arrives at an abandoned gas station due to her motorbike breaking down. The area, like much of...
Are you ready to feel old? Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney first released to western audiences on the Nintendo DS back in 2005. It’s well-known due to its high quality story-telling, unique spin on the visual novel genre and the large amount of spin-offs that it spawned, along with other series...
Generation Zero
Generation Zero takes place in a reimagining of 1980’s Sweden. You play as a teenager returning from vacation to find a completely deserted town, devoid of all human life. Something has taken place and you’re not quite sure what that something is.
