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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…
ScourgeBringer is a well-crafted piece of arcade slashing that throws the player fewer bones than its roguelite contemporaries. Here's our review.
Expect ninjas, robots and thousands of deaths as we battle through a Ghostrunner review.
Disc Room is a twitch-based dodge 'em up with malleable difficulty settings, tough secrets, and some quite furious discs. But is it any good? (Yes)
An accomplished horror adventure, Amnesia: Rebirth is a worthy entry in the Amnesia series that never quite gets as original as you might hope.
A roguelike in which every pixel is simulated, and a rare partnering of technical witchery and compelling game design. Read our Noita review for more.
Partisans 1941 is a Soviet take on Commandos, and it's great. It's very savescummy, but makes up for it with a base management metagame and a strong setting.
Torchlight III feels an awful lot like what it is: a free-to-play multiplayer game that thought better of itself, and decided to become a proper full-price microtransaction-free primarily solo release. If I didn’t already know the path it had taken, I’d have spent my entire time playing the game being gnawed at by wondering just what it was that made it all feel so off.
A charming 3D puzzle game with many hidden surprises, I Am Dead's low-pressure treasure hunt and sense of fun is another good tonic for trying times.
The central experience – of being a pilot in a Star Wars – is masterfully crafted, and I can’t find much to fault with it. Squadrons is probably the most fun I’ve had with any piece of Star Wars media since my teens, in fact, and it frequently invokes a joy I haven’t felt since playing TIE Fighter in 1995.
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk is a goofy, D&D-themed turn-based tactics game with a lot of polish - but if the word 'zany' sets your teeth on edge, be warned.
Only a month ago I wrote about Family, a free investigation game about plotting the movements of musicians across a (fi…
Spelunky 2 rejuvenates the classic roguelike platformer with a huge number of smart, elegant additions.
Inkle's marriage of Arthurian storytelling and turn-based strategy is elegant and replayable - if, perhaps, a little opaque at times. Read the full review here:
Supergiant's action roguelike was already a game of the year contender when it first came out in early access two years ago. It definitely is now.
Iron Harvest is a throwback to one of the last golden ages of the genre, often feeling as old fashioned and crusty as that association entails, but frequently reminding us of the essential appeal of extremely large robots chilling out in timelines where they shouldn’t be.