Includes RPS, Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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…
Solium Infernum is a devilishly tricky backstab simulator that's rich with strategic possibility, but the long tail here is definitely in its multiplayer.
Last Epoch is a worthy mid-point ARPG that has fun with its fantasy time travelling world, and makes crafting and building towards percentage point increases actually rewarding. Even fun!
There's much to admire in Ironwood's car-based survival sim, not least the detail that's gone into the old banger you pilot and the weird lands you have to explore, which force you to learn their quirks and keep your wits about you. As a crafting game, however, it's rather unforgiving and laborious, requiring a lot of thankless graft if you want to stay on the road and unlock more inventive equipment.
Riot Forge bows out with an overly grindy crafting game that annoys more often than it delights.
A clever roguelike card game about cheating your way to victory, Balatro is a generous and mesmeric take on poker with endless strategic possibilities.
Granblue Fantasy: Relink is a slick and colourful JRPG that knows what it thinks is cool. The combat is kind of weightless, but it's layered and fun - if you can be bothered to get to the bottom of it.
Late-game fiddliness spoils what is otherwise a vibrant and always interesting Metroidvania, and one of the most sumptuous games of 2024 so far
Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden is a sort of goth Uncharted where you find-and-replace "treasure" with "ghosts". It has problems, but it's a pretty billboard time
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is a giddy little action-shooter bogged down by conventional loot-chasing guff.
There are simple pleasures to be found in Palworld's enormous list of crafting tasks, but look beyond its base building and its world, monster taming and combat all feel quite stale and undercooked.
A repetitive journey through a year of quirky yet cheesy high school relationships, interspersed with tedious turn-based combat.
Best-in-class building and a lovely atmosphere war against technical difficulties and an uninspiring premise for this early access survival crafting game.
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth improves on Yakuza: Like A Dragon in almost every way, making this is a JRPG no-brainer for those after nothing but a good time.
Tekken 8 isn't revolutionary, but it's filled with lots of little improvements and a focus on aggression that make a transfer to this sequel a no-brainer.
Definitely the lesser trilogy in Capcom's long-standing lawyer 'em up series, but among the gimmicks and gadgetry there are still plenty of highlights to be found here, and Spirit Of Justice is up there with Ace Attorney's best.