Video Game Review: Unpacking (Xbox)
As I mentioned in my review of Townscaper yesterday, Game Pass is an absolute boon for gamers and indie studios alike, with games added to the service that have been […]
News: Faraday Protocol – Updated
Having been unveiled originally in August, first person puzzle game Faraday Protocol has been significantly refined following feedback from the gaming community, with a number of major updates now released. […]
Review: Lone McLonegan: A Western Adventure
Out now on Steam and Nintendo Switch (Switch version played) Point and click adventures are a rarity these days, but a few decades ago they were everywhere. With some of […]
Review: Interplay Collection 2 (Evercade Cartridge 07)
Though there’s a sense of repetition in the first half dozen or so Evercade cartridges, especially in terms of the companies featured, the game collections mostly featured enough games that […]
Review: Namco Museum Collection 2 (Evercade Cartridge 06)
In my review of the fifth cartridge in the Evercade’s growing library – the Atari Collection 2 – I lamented the fact that the very first compilation released for the […]
Review: Interplay Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 04)
Controversial opinion time – let’s get this out of the way right from the start: Earthworm Jim just isn’t a very good game. Though it was perhaps a victim of […]
Preview: Colorball
Check out the Colorball website here Available now on App Lab – the Oculus ‘Early Access’-style storefront, which is still way too hidden and difficult to uncover for most users […]
Board Game Preview: Top Pop
Though carbonated drinks have, somewhat surprisingly, been around since the 1700s and flavoured fizzy beverages date back to at least the 1800s, it wasn’t until mass production processes were pioneered […]
Review: Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale
Available now on: Steam, Switch & Xbox One (Switch version tested) I find puzzle games a little bit hit and miss, perhaps because – being autistic – I find it […]
Board Game Review: Bejeweled
Remember the days before Candy Crush came and stole the thunder of PopCap’s wonderfully therapeutic, gem matching puzzle series on mobiles? I do. Bejeweled was everywhere. For good reason too; […]
Review: Kolumno
Available now for Nintendo Switch (£1.79) A beautifully minimalist, vertically minded puzzler, Kolumno is a game which sees you simply attempting to drop a ball into a hole to pass […]
Review: Hidden Through Time
Tapping into the same addictive character spotting, scene scanning fun that you get from the Where’s Wally (or Waldo, if you’re across the Atlantic) books, Hidden Through Time is a […]
Review: Safety First!
There’s no getting around it – Safety First is a bizarre, gross and hilarious physics-based puzzler. Despite its crude appearance – both in terms of simplicity and subject matter – […]
Review: Not Not – A Brain Buster
Available now on: Switch (version played), Android & iOS I’ve always been incredibly quick to inform people when they’ve committed the ultimate sin: using a double negative. Though correction can often be met with bafflement and the offender still going on to use phrases such as ‘I didn’t say nothing’ when they mean the complete opposite, it’s something I’m unable […]
Review: One Line Coloring
Available: 21st August 2020 on Steam, Switch, iOS and Android There’s something to be said for smaller scale games with a laser focus on just a few brilliantly refined and compelling mechanics. One Line Coloring is a game of this nature; essentially, all you do is trace lines around different patterns – not unlike a dot-to-dot puzzle – attempting to […]
Review: Windosill
Another title that’s part of the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality (which now contains over 1700 items for a $5 minimum – and ends tomorrow), Windosill is a gentle puzzle game that sees you poking, pulling, pushing, twisting and prodding different objects in order to open the way for a car to move to the next of the […]
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