Let’s start out with a little bit of context. Conan Exiles was made available through Steam Early Access on 31st January 2017. At time of writing, the game has been out for two weeks and, to my certain knowledge, has been updated 11 times. That’s almost one a day since launch. And you can totally…
Currently in Early Access, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation has it all – base building, demonic combat and survival. And not a zombie in sight!
The Flame in the Flood is a roguelike survival game where you take on the role of Scout, a girl searching for the source of a strange radio signal in a largely flooded post-societal North America. Scout’s story kicks off when a strange dog, Aesop, turns up at her post-apocalyptic campsite carrying a backpack bearing…
What do you call an anthropomorphic chicken in a comedy-noir point-and-click adventure? Gallo, apparently: Detective Gallo. From Italian studio Footprints Games and publisher Adventure Productions comes a new puzzle-based adventure in which you take on the role of the titular Detective Gallo; a hard-boiled gumshoe out to solve the bizarre mystery surrounding the deaths of…
Review Deponia in two words? Here we go: it’s alright. What? You want more? Well, if you insist… Of course, there are (to my knowledge) three main ways of saying those two words. You can say “it’s alright” with a high-pitched voice, which means “it’s better than you might think” or you can say “it’s…
Sometimes you’ll play a game that’s so out there, so bizarre and so unlike anything else that you’ve played that it’s practically indescribable. Senran Kagura Bon Apetit! is not one of those games; it’s, actually rather describable – but still no less bonkers for it. So what is Senran Kagura Bon Apetit!? Well, apart from…
After almost three months without any sort of meaningful communication, Hello Games’ Sean Murray has announced the first in a series of free patches for No Man’s Sky, and it’s a big one. The Foundation update brings a wealth of new content and bug fixes to one of the most over-hyped and under-loved games of…
I’ve written this paragraph a dozen different ways already. I’ve no clue how to kick off this preview. So I’ll just start by saying something I’ve said in every draft so far: Ghost of a Tale is bloody brilliant. It’s often difficult to write about games in Early Access. Sometimes you’re not sure whether to…
When it was first announced back at E3 in 2015, For Honor immediately seemed to tick a lot of boxes for a lot of people – myself included. Essentially billed as a hack and slash multiplayer game, Ubisoft’s new IP promised slick but hefty melee brawling and tactical one-on-one duels between knights, vikings and samurai amongst the crumbling ruins…
Metrico+ is like Ikea furniture. Once you open the box you’re presented with a baffling array of parts – wood, screws, weird twiddly knob things. You begin putting it together but, when you finally check the instructions, you see that what you thought might be a cupboard door is actually a side panel. You go…
I’ll be honest: The Turing Test is likely not the longest game you’ll play this year. If you’re a seasoned puzzle-solver and don’t get tangled up in the hunt for more lore, you’ll probably wrap it up in under five hours. Despite that, The Turing Test is a great game. But it’s not the puzzles (however rewarding)…
What is No Man’s Sky? Since it was announced in 2013 people have struggled to understand exactly what this game was. Cartoony graphics, weird aliens, procedural generation, 18 quintillion planets, space ships, guns and a strange red-eyed diamond were all that we got. Now we’ve had the chance, at last, to play the game, we…
Ten minutes into The Turing Test and I knew exactly what was going on: I knew what the twists would be; knew where it was headed. I knew all I needed to know, and I was ready to write it off as a semi-transparent Portal clone. An hour in, I began to have serious doubts about my…
As of earlier today, the official soundtrack to No Man’s Sky, the upcoming space game that the world can’t seem to get enough of, was released across a number of media outlets. UK-based experimental rock band 65daysofstatic are responsible for the soundtrack’s creation, and were brought into the project following the use of one of…
This Is The Police is an intriguing prospect. You play police chief Jack Boyd on a mission to make it the 180 days to retirement with some dignity in tact and a cool half a million dollars in your pocket. There’s the question of keeping one of the city’s mafia families sweet, too. Oh, and…
I’m going to be brutally honest: I have zero interest in watching people go for a bike ride – not even when that bike ride consists of 21, day long “stages”, comprising over 2,000 miles of racing through some of the most breathtaking scenery la Belle France can offer. So, I never really expected to…
“Epic” is a word that tends to get thrown about with an ever increasing disregard for what it really means. Etymologically (bear with me), it derives from the Greek word epos, which means “song” or “story”. It’s synonymous with the great oral traditions of the middle-ages, of the heroic prose and poetry coming out of Scandinavia; where trolls…
Space Run Galaxy is, in its most basic form, a tower defence game. I just had to put that out there as, over the course of this review, I’m likely to forget to mention it because, as far as I’m concerned, Space Run Galaxy is so, SO much more than just a tower defence game. In…
In case you didn’t already know, there’s a System Shock remake in the works – and there’s a demo out now! That’s right, the critically acclaimed “genre-defining classic” from the early 90’s is being revived in all the glory (and gory) that the Unity engine can manage by veteran developers Nightdive Studios – a company…
I’ve not had that much experience with 4X games. I’ve played my fair share of Civilization (several of them, in fact) and my friends and I were absolutely nuts about Imperium Galactica II for about six months in the early noughties but, apart from that, I’ve mostly left the genre unexplored. So I was pretty…
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