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Monument Valley
The world is wrong. Some kind of disaster has taken place and as Princess Ida, you have to navigate a land of broken towers to find your way to forgiveness. Monument Valley is an isometric puzzle game...
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The Wolf Among Us
Now that the first season of Telltale’s adaptation of the Fables graphic novel is finally complete, I wanted to write a follow up to the initial review of episodes 1 and 2 that ran a few months back on...
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Strider
Strider, the 2014 update of the established series of the same name, is a largely unremarkable and unpolished exploration platformer in the vein of Super Metroid. It has several strong features, but at...
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Mountain
Mountain is a “game” with air-quotes in full force. It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t know if it’s one that actually works. As the self-proclaimed “art wanker” and “filthy casual” of the D+Pad...
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Mario Kart 8
It’s difficult to sum up an experience like the pure joy of playing a new Mario Kart game for the first time. I have quite a personal relationship with the series, having played most of the different...
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Sacred 3
Sacred is nothing. Sacred 3 is (unsurprisingly) the sequel to the entertainingly average Sacred 2, and once again it chucks players into the stock fantasy realm of Ancaria and gives them the chance to...
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Eighty Days
The rise of mobile gaming and the re-popularisation of the visual novel/management simulator via games such as Sunrider and Long Live the Queen has brought with it a number of solid entries in the...
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Mecha Ace
Choice of Games offer a wide selection of choose-your-own-adventure stories in a variety of genres, and were among the first to embrace the genre’s popularity on mobile. While the package on offer in...
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Risen 3: Titan Lords
The third game in the Risen series, Titan Lords is a return to the Medieval aesthetic of the first game, and a move away from the Pirate-themed Black Waters. Sadly, though Risen 3 is entertaining to...
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Destiny
After all the hype, all the talk and the bandying about of giant budgets and 10 year plans, Destiny is finally here. The first post-Halo game from Bungie, few games have had the level of intrigue and...
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Tomodachi Life
Tomodachi Life is a ‘life simulator’ by Nintendo, one which has had a small level of controversy in its limited time in the West due to its attempt to ‘not make a message’ on gays actually making a...
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Kapsula
Kapsula is a puzzle game combining the reflex-testing of an endless runner with the block-matching of a game like Columns; the end result is something a little like Audiosurf but without the soundtrack...
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Kickbeat
Kickbeat is marketed as an “innovative rhythm game with a Kung Fu theme,” but its level of innovation, when games like Final Fantasy Theatrhythm have explored adding combat and RPG elements to rhythm...
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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call
There’s a genre of rhythm games on the DS and 3DS which have been mainly seen in Japan with the Ossu Tatakae Ouendan series which were sadly never imported over here and with the fantastic Elite Beat...
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
There was a time when the announcement of a licensed game was a cause for concern, rather than excitement. The history of gaming is littered with rushed, shoddy cash-ins for movies and high profile...
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