Joseph Sale
Joseph Sale is a novelist, creator of dark twines and a gamer. He loves RPGs, open worlds and survival horrors (the latter of which he used to play in an old shed in his back garden - because apparently Resident Evil wasn't atmospheric enough). He looks out for games with a strong narrative; he's a great believer the very best games long outlive their console, and those are the classics he holds on to.
Hunter’s Legacy Review
Hunter’s Legacy is a new 2D platform-action game out on the block, and I can honestly say it’s one of the best of the...
Pre-Alpha Preview: Project Discord
After discovering Project Discord, an upcoming indie Survival Horror title, while researching a piece on the future of the classic genre, I did a shout-out for...
Bard’s Gold Review
Bard’s Gold is a rogue-like-platformer hybrid with some neat ideas, but one that unfortunately misses the mark by quite a wide margin. The idea...
Fable Fortune Preview: A CCG Not To Be Missed
After writing a feature on whether the upcoming CCG Fable Fortune could save the Fable series, I was contacted by Craig Oman of Flaming...
Blacksea Odyssey Review
Blacksea Odyssey is a very different type of rogue-like combining the stage-based elements of The Binding of Isaac with the twisted inventiveness of Dark Souls' enemy design.
Though there are...
Fable Fortune – Can The CCG Save Fable?
Fable Fortune is being developed by Flaming Fowl, the new indie studio formed from the remnants of Lionhead. Microsoft have granted Flaming Fowl the...
The Importance of Mystery: Top 3 Enigmatic Games
Games are at their best, at least in my view, when they give you an open canvas full of mystery and secrets. No one...
Postal Redux Review
There seems to have been several attempts in recent years to revive what I would describe as the "Massacre" genre of video games.
You know...
Deer Man Review
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep"
There...
Party Hard Review (Xbox One)
Party Hard is one of those games that’s a brilliant idea executed only passingly well.
It has a lot of things going for it, including...
Tetrobot & Co. Review
At first I was skeptical about Tetrobot & Co; not only was it a little outside of my generic comfort zone but it had...
A Closer Look at City of the Shroud
I first encountered City of the Shroud at EGX Rezzed 2016 in London. The poster art caught my eye: a looming, priestly figure with...
Can Survival Horror Survive? The Future of the Genre
"That house," Detective Castellanos whispers. "I’ve never been there, but it seems familiar." These words from the protagonist of The Evil Within are both...
Thank You For Playing: The Rise And Fall of Iconic Video Game Magazines
Thank You For Playing: Iconic Video Game Magazines describes a bygone era, an era in which magazines could take risks and ‘every game was new’.
The...
No Man’s Sky: The Impossible Dream Realised
So, here we are. It has been a long road, but finally, we have a release date and the concrete knowledge that No Man's...
Living Dungeon Review
"Time to remove some obstacles in my way…" the sly Sajotir remarks, watching a Devout on their way into the depths of the Living Dungeon.
Perhaps...
Defragmented Review
Bear with me for a little bit: I'm going to tell you about Defragmented, but in order to do so, I have to tell...
Elder Scrolls Online: Triumph or Tribulation?
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and...
Down to One Early Access Review
A task has fallen to me. A terrible task. Like the Ancient Mariner from the old Coleridge poem I am duty bound to “stoppeth...
Monstro: Battle Tactics Review
Monstro: Battle Tactics is an unusual game to say the least. Developed by retrocade.net, it states on their website it is a "fully deterministic logic game...
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