(Alright, before you start – Day 1 turned into a pretty long session of exploration and therefore a bit of a mammoth write-up! 😅 I’m hoping to limit my playtime going forward to keep things more manageable.) Okay, so here we go! Firing up the game you get straight into it – the Mountain King
I’ve always been a fan of weird and wonderful gaming experiences, and when I stumbled upon The Longing whilst writing up an article last year, my interest was thoroughly piqued. I was kindly gifted an Switch eShop card for Christmas, so I finally decided to pick up this quirky title and give it a go. For those

Thirty-five years ago people left the comfort of their house and headed to a place filled with hulking machines that each had one video game loaded into them. Known as ‘arcades’, people would drop 20p into a waiting slot and the game would spring to life. One of the producers of these arcade games was

In all my years of playing video games, I never thought I’d be pulled into the genre of visual novels. Perhaps it was my own prejudice against games where there’s a lot of reading and not a lot else; I prefer games where I control a character and make them dance like the polygon puppets

Blue Fairy: Yes Pinocchio, I’ve given you life. Pinocchio: Why? I don’t want to go visiting the intentions of why indie devs make “Small Child Scary World” games. Now, I’m not saying that indie devs are suppressing some sort of contempt for children. And I’m certainly not speculating that many of them are recent parents,

In 2012, I had already hung up my bag of ridiculous-sided dice and retired my character sheets back into the draw of stuff, but from the moment CD Projekt Red announced Cyberpunk 2077 was in development, I knew I was going to own it. Based on Mike Pondsmith’s popular tabletop role playing game Cyberpunk 2020,

If you really want to make it as an adventurer then you need to have a few things: bravery and curiosity come top of the list, then a sharp wit, and then ideally a snappy catchphrase and a signature look. That said, if you want to hit the absolute top-tier of adventurer herodom then you
Clockwork Aquario from developer studio Westone (Wonder Boy series) is a 2D arcade beat ’em up was thought to be lost is getting a release on consoles after nearly three decades in the void. The colourful, 2-player action game is being published by arcade spealists ININ Games and will release on 30th November for us
Indie Publisher Ratalaika Games & developer BUG-Studio have announced the release date for their latest effort 6Souls, is coming on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch on 3rd December. This cute 2D platformer sees one man and his dog explore 120 levels in this pixel puzzler.
With Steam’s Black Friday discounts in full swing, we’ve scoured the sale and bundled together five brilliant games into one nice bundle and we’re giving them away to one lucky winner! We’re giving away a Steam code for all of the following five indie games: Hollow Knight Stardew Valley Little Nightmares Binding of Isaac Guacamelee!