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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…
An engrossing JRPG that uses the framing of a life sim to ground its twisty and overblown story.
Not much of a glow-up from Tactics Ogre's PSP remake in 2010, but this is still an engrossing turn-based tactics RPG that will keep you battling for hours and hours and hours and hours...
A Little To The Left is a charming puzzle game about the satisfaction found in organsing and tidying. Plus one mischievous kitty.
A cosy puzzle adventure about a group of ghosts discovering who they were and why they are still hanging around - and then helping them reach the other side.
The full release of Vampire Survivors is still a splendid arcade splat’em up adds variety, depth, and an endgame you may or may not feel compelled to conquer.
A moody Metroidvania with enough Hollow Knight DNA to tide you over until Silksong, but its stilted protagonist and occasional lack of direction prevents this from being one of the all-time greats.
The Chant has some good enemy design and interesting resource management, but its psychic-horror weirdness just doesn't get weird enough.
Signalis is like playing a classic survival horror on your PS1, but you accidentally spilled a bucket of raw meat in the disc tray. Also, your PS1 is possessed by a malevolent cosmic entity that you're madly in love with.
The exact same old battles sewn onto a perfunctory, shallow RPG and an elaborate but undramatic and robotic feudalism sim
Butterfly Soup 2 is a sequel that lives up to the heartbreak and hilarity of the original, while giving an even more compassionate exploration of teenage life.
The final game in a trio of charming, bite-sized mysteries, Frog Detective 3 and its cast of animal characters will keep you chuckling until the end.
Saturnalia is a truly unique horror game, with an unforgettable monster and oodles of style
A warts and all take on a tumultuous period in history results in a surprisingly thought-provoking experience.
Gotham Knights is action-RPG that wraps what could've been a wonderfully realised Gotham universe in a tired, slapdash mix of meaningless numbers and loot.
You wait 8 years for a sort-of sequel to your favourite Borderlands narrative adventure game and when one finally turns up it's an unfunny disappointment