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Last reviewed: 007 First Light · 4 days ago
I can't get Fish Sticks out of my head. Not the food, but the stray cat with a squished face and stubby legs that I wrangled into my shack in Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel’s new roguelite strategy game, Mewgenics. The shop, the pub, the dentist; no matter where I go, I…
I was, like so many of my 1990s-born peers, a huge Sims girlie. I spent hundreds of hours as a teen and young adult making people I knew, characters from shows I was obsessing over, or original characters I wanted to experiment with, and diligently following their life paths and…
A carefree shadow-hopping puzzler whose colour and charm, combined with frogs, makes for a ribbiting time.
An idiosyncratic soul and great creature design keeps Once Human interesting amidst rote and uninteresting survival and shooting.
Two-thirds exhilarating and ingenious, one third asinine and frustrating, Anger Foot feels played out by the time you've finished the first few stages. Through great level design, constant novelty, and mostly solid fundamentals, it remains intoxicating for another sixty of them.
Sleek and stylish art direction won't make up for shallow combat and a tiring gacha treadmill.
A fussy and demanding, but utterly singular and impossibly absorbing planning and logistical sim that other city builders can barely hope to match.
Building on Sekiro's parry system in a layered and fascinating metroidvania world, Nine Sols is a punishing but encouraging 2D soulslike spilling over with personality and creativity.
Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree is a knotty, dense expansion that's home to some of the best moments in Elden Ring, but also some of its most frustrating.
A first-person North Sea horror that doesn't push the boat out but still excels within its genre
Engaging from start to arguably too-soon finish, Felvidek is a raw, strange, and brilliant RPG that alternates between deadly combat, plummy prose, crass jokes, and odd beauty.
A few bugs and grumbles with Skald are utterly brushed aside by a charming and accessible modernisation of 80s RPG detail.
A compact but effective expansion for an already brilliant game, The Splintered Sea's additions are sure to make considerable waves for your toolbox of destruction.
A puzzler and twinstick shooter that's just as pretty to discover as it is to look at. There's a hint of Super Mario Odyssey in there, too, if you're into that.
Our Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 review explains the good and bad of Ninja Theory's third-person action sequel, which doubles down on the original in every way.
Galacticare is a smashing space management sim in the Bullfrog tradition, with a great implicit and explicit sense of humour. It's not super challenging, but its levels are imaginative and fun.
Songs Of Conquest is a colourful army building and smushing strategy game with clear rules and a heap of RPG levelling-powered possibilities.