
A winning but wayward chimera of survival game, surrealism and storybook adventure.

A winning but wayward chimera of survival game, surrealism and storybook adventure.

Discovery and realisation are the two great thrills of Outer Wilds, so let me dust off an old reviewer's cliche and say…

Following a year of console exclusivity to the PlayStation 5, Arkane's outstanding Deathloop arrives on Xbox Series S/X…

I played through the original Psychonauts properly for the first time this year. I've been trying to work out how it wo…

The Ascent teems. Its tiered alien megacity is one of the liveliest cyberpunk settings I've explored, always crawling w…

Robin Hood is the quintessential English folk rebel. He's also a total chameleon. The man (if he was a man) has undergo…

A simple but quietly captivating 3D collectathon with a gorgeous setting.

Hitman 3 is the final act in Agent 47's struggle against his nemeses at Providence, the illuminati-style collective of …

The Airborne Kingdom roams the skies, a vast, rattling amoeba of propellers and minarets, hissing forges and thundering…

When I was a boy my dad taught me to play chess. Or at least, I think he did. My memories of these things are blurred b…

Discussing the creature design in his gruesome 1982 adaptation of The Thing - a movie which, incidentally, opens with K…

Amanita Design's latest is a game of vast but delicate imagination, at once rambling and toy-like. Released alongside a…

Persona 4 is a twisting tale of dreams gone rogue in a town sapped of purpose. It brings personal demons to life in gaudy but plausible ways, and uses this to rejuvenate the dog-eared framework of a town-and-dungeon fantasy RPG. Unceremonious as it is, the PC port leaves all of that peculiar magic intact. It’s just a shame that the insight and empathy on show here doesn’t extend to everybody.

I almost gave up on Those Who Remain halfway through. It was the lions, you see. A first-person blunderfest for horror …

This is far from the most polished remaster I’ve played, and the original was a hit-and-miss affair to begin with. Judged in terms of Platinum’s own end-of-level trophies, this earns a silver award at best.