Blasphemous 2 review – Irreligious be thy name
In 2019, Blasphemous was a surprise Metroidvania hit for The Game Kitchen. The small Spanish indie studio had already delighted with the horror adventure The Last Door, but with Blasphemous…
Desynced Review – Build the colony of your dreams
Are you looking for a new colony-building sim game? In our Desynced review we'll show you how to build the colony of your dreams. If you’re looking for a game…
Turbo Overkill review – chainsaw you with gusto
Remember when FPS ruled the world? Oh Syntech farms remembers. But then again, there's never been a better moment to be a fan of classic FPS shlock, dice and tear…
Thronefall review – one of the best early-access games of 2023
Thronefall is what you get when you take the Kingdom games and make them isometric, with a 2.5d perspective - and it's glorious. We loved our time with the tower…
Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous edition review
ID Software was always serious about Doom. It was going to be dark, it was filled with demons and it was all about hell, and blood and gore. But what…
Full Void review – standing on the shoulders of oldies
Perhaps 2023 will go down as the year that everyone realized we need more 2D narrative platformers. Inspired from both Another World and Limbo, this year both Planet of Lana…
Viewfinder review – this photograph of you
It is a magical moment. You grasp a Polaroid picture in your hand, you put it up to your eyes and suddenly, the world changes around it. It is a…
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals review – worth the wait
In 2016, the supernatural adventure Oxenfree captured many with its ghostly rifts and young group of friends going against something bigger than them. Seven years later, we finally have our…
Dave the Diver review – wasabi up your life
Wading into deep waters, falling down into the blue with one thought in your mind. What fish will I serve tomorrow? Do I have enough soy sauce for everyone? But…
Crime O’Clock review – just in time for sleuthing
Fighting crime is not about being right or being smart, it is all about arriving just in the right nick of time. But, sometimes, criminals are just out to try…
GYLT review – shine a light on me
In the darkness, monsters grow and fester. Be they monsters of the mind or of the body, away from the light they find their shelter. They grow unchecked and might…
Daydream: Forgotten Sorrow review
Childhood is a fraught time: a period in which our imaginations soar despite our limited agency. When the overbearing weight of our limitations can’t deaden our awareness of the potential…
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales review
Sometimes you get to read a choose-your-own-adventure book, other times it's the book that chooses the adventure for you. That is the journey we are called to undertake in The…
Dordogne review – watered down watercolours
Ah, la Dordogne, the Tuscany of France. A magnificent rural area around the river which has fascinated everyone around the world with its old villages, castles and quiet simple style…
Mask of the Rose review – we found love in a hopeless zee
Are you desperate enough to be looking for love, or is love desperate enough to find you, even in the dimmest place? With our prestigious city having crumbled underground so…
Hello Goodboy review – woofs of sadness
Sometimes we definitely need a little bit of heartwarming adventures to cheer us up. Leave it to Indonesia game devs to be able to write some emotional stories, as we've…
Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath review – all that and a bag of turds
When I was sixteen, I spent a full month trying to design a map of my apartment in Duke Nukem 3D. Then I decided I wanted appropriate sprites and sounds…
Stasis: Bone Totem review – Alien meets Disco Elysium underwater
There have been many point-and-click adventure games that have taken on the horror theme, but Stasis: Bone Totem trounces them all and makes for a genuinely scary experience. If you…
Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099 review – cyber-peeping tom
Don't you have anything better to do than sitting down and watching a screen all day? No, sorry, I do not want to sound like your parents, but that is…
Planet of Lana review – a magnificent out of this world adventure
The journey of a thousand miles begins with an image in Photoshop. Or at least, that's what happened with Planet of Lana in 2017. It took Wishfully, a small Swedish…