There are games that try to be serious in their mechanics and there are those that are just about having fun. Octodad: Dadliest Catch is one where, for the most part, it is just about goofing around and attempting to …

In the year 2299 the fate of Earth hangs in the balance of an ongoing war between the U.N.E. (United Nations of Earth) and a space colony that possesses a weapon capable of destroying planets. As the game’s 13 mission …

The further down the rabbit hole you go the weirder things tend to get. Such is the case with Fez where, if you just simply finish the game once, you’ll find that it’s a pretty clever puzzle platformer. You might …

As a quick aside from this review I think Mercenary Kings being touted as “Metal Slug meets Monster Hunter” is doing the game a bit of a disservice. Sure the game is stylistically similar to Metal Slug and many of …

In SteamWorld Dig you play as Rusty, a robot who has just received a deed from his uncle, who has just arrived in the mining town of Tumbleton. With his uncle nowhere to be found Rusty must dig and explore …

The first image we ever received for Basement Crawl was some concept art for the game’s playable clown character. It’s an incredibly unsettling image and as someone who can’t get enough horror-themed entertainment, it had me curious. Soon enough we …

Outlast intrigued me.  So much so, that I wanted to use it to face my fear of survival-horror games.  Had the PS4 camera not disappeared from the market, I would be streaming it with my (often funny) reaction to it. …

If you were to look at Double Helix’s track record around the time their reboot of Strider was announced I wouldn’t blame you for being worried. How could the same developer behind Battleship or G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra …

I have been mulling over this review for well over two months and my opinion has been constantly colliding with what should be a positive review of a beautiful game. But what my gut keeps telling me is that the …

Pre-reading – The Run-Arounder A genre of video games composed of three crucial attributes: Running around (this can be done in first-person, third-person, or an isometric view); gathering resources; and, perhaps most importantly, a lack of a definitive objective or …