TheSixthAxis

Motorslice

6/10

Motorslice is an anime-styled action game that mixes giant bosses, parkour traversal, and a minimalist design. On paper, it’s a blend that should work really well. Yet Motorslice veers between moments of excellence and many, many moments of frustration. Across the 11 hours it took me to complete it, Motorslice...

Quartet

8/10

The legacy of Final Fantasy (and to a lesser extent Dragon Quest in the West) is impossible to overstate with Squaresoft’s SNES RPGs in particular still standing unchallenged as the pinnacle of the classic 2D JRPG. For this reason, any modern attempt to recapture the look and feel of these...

Forza Horizon 6

9/10

Playground Games are masters of the arcade racer. Forza Horizon 6 is the latest in their globe trotting series, this time bringing its neon-soaked motorsport festival to the stunning climes of Japan. That in turn brings a new flavour to the racing action, with anime inflexions, cute food mascots and...

Clockwork Ambrosia

7/10

Metroidvanias are at their best when they offer a lot of different options in combat, in my opinion. My ideal version of this is the Bloodstained approach, in which every enemy you kill has an ability you can steal, and then you can mix and match them all as you...

Call of the Elder Gods

7/10

Call of the Sea was a game that I loved when it first released over five years ago, and so I was hugely excited to see that a sequel was coming and have been looking forward to diving back in since. Serving as a direct continuation of the original’s story,...

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

8/10

Battlestar Galactica’s 2004 revival is one of my favourite TV series. Sure, it’s strange as heck through the later seasons, and you have to view its tone and creation through the lens of 9/11, the War on Terror, and how that shaped American culture through that decade, but its highest...

Directive 8020

9/10

Supermassive Games has been honing their The Dark Pictures Anthology horror formula since 2019, each entry sharpening the balance between cinematic storytelling and player-driven horror. Directive 8020 feels like the next evolution of that template, taking a step away from the anthology branding entirely to deliver a standalone experience, albeit...

Everything Is Crab

8/10

If you’ve ever wanted to live a version of your life where you spend a bunch of time just eating things you find on the ground and then randomly evolving, then good news, because Everything Is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelike is here to fill your very specific niche.

Mixtape

10/10

Go watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off right now. Go on. I’ll wait. OK, now I need you to binge The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. All done? Now you’re ready for Mixtape.

Mixtape

10/10

Go watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off right now. Go on. I’ll wait. OK, now I need you to binge The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. All done? Now you’re ready for Mixtape.

Tides of Tomorrow

6/10

While you don’t play Tides of Tomorrow with other people, it’s a story that depends on them. The actions of other players who have played the game can change things within your playthrough, affecting things for better or for worse. You may, for example, find yourself having to sneak through...

Aphelion

6/10

Sci-fi movies have taught us a few things over the years: in space, everyone can hear your explosions, people wearing red always die first, and, if you’re visiting a planet to discover if its inhabitable, you will definitely crash land upon arrival. It’s the latter rule that applies to Aphelion....