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Philippa Warr·May 21, 2015

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Sunset is a wonderfully atmospheric slow burner and a valuable addition to a medium where the predominant approach to conflict is to just give you a big old gun and invite you to get stuck in.

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Adam Smith·May 20, 2015

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It's one idea done well, consistent and compact. As Bunnylord might say – Not A Hero might not be cooking with floppin' sexy gas on all cylinders but it's a facemurdering good time nonetheless.

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Rich Stanton·May 15, 2015

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Children are fickle creatures, and today's craze is tomorrow's landfill. One of my earliest memories is of mum trying t…

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Brendan Caldwell·May 13, 2015

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In Kerbal Space Program, we have a perfect game of experimentation. Checking to see what goes wrong and correcting your next trial accordingly. When struggling with my first launches and landings, and the tricky controls, I was close to believing it was a game of impossible luck. But it is so far from that as to make the initial belief laughable. Instead, it is about accruing and applying small units of knowledge, one on top of the other.

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Alec Meer·May 7, 2015

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[F]ifteen quid, lots of bullets, lots of steampunk Nazis and some monsters too. If that's (still) your poison, you can't go far wrong with this.

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Alec Meer·Apr 30, 2015

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It's a shame the same anything-goes mindset doesn't apply to the mission structure and the story, because the dryness, repetition and general rudimentary air is what will ultimately keep me from coming back for more, but if you want a few hours of XCOM-lite with cyberpunk trimmings and the option for co-op, you could do a lot worse than Shadowrun Chronicles.

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Rich Stanton·Apr 28, 2015

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Weelcome, it's goood ta see ya again! Blizzard may not do the best Scottish accents in the world (and have you heard th…

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Rich Stanton·Apr 24, 2015

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The Assignment and The Consequence are dark, they're frightening, they get the blood pumping, and there's nothing else quite like them around. You'll know when you've been Tango'd.

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Alec Meer·Apr 23, 2015

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Dungeons 2 [official site] is a strategy-management game which borrows heavily from Dungeon Keeper - to whit, you're an…

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Alec Meer·Apr 21, 2015

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I'm frustrated that there's a great game here, laid a little low by grind, by sub-racing game insta-death factors and irritating, quote-drenched dialogue. This is, at heart, a small and simple game which tries to make itself bigger with unnecessary frippery rather than expanding its worthy core. It's perfectly serviceable as a land-based remix of FTL, but your next great, chaotic adventure Convoy is not. Yet.

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Alec Meer·Apr 20, 2015

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No numbers, no inventory to speak of, but so much to do, so many ways it can play out and plenty of snowballing consequences. Its superficially simple 2D art occasionally flares into high prettiness too. We might not have Red Dead Redemption, but Westerado is an enormously satisfying consolation prize.

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Adam Smith·Apr 13, 2015

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Whatever time was wasted traipsing across the same screens repeatedly, I sure as hell don't regret the twenty-odd perfect shots that happened along the way. The beauty of Titan Souls is that if you enjoy the demo, you'll find more of the same in the full game, with consistently inventive enemy designs.

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John Walker·Apr 8, 2015

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So it's such a galling shame that the game lets itself down so badly. A collection of poor puzzles is frustrating (one in particular required me to email the developer to get past), but forgivable in this lovely daft genre.

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Alec Meer·Apr 7, 2015

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Dungeon Keeper has always felt important to me, and I’ve rarely analysed why, for the same reason I don’t question why …

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Adam Smith·Mar 31, 2015

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Etherium [official site] is fast-paced and energetic but it won't leave you suffering from a sugar crash. It can pack a…