Tom Quirk
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Orcs Must Die! 3 is the long-awaited third instalment of the franchise that takes the tower defence genre, typically a rather hands-off affair, and turbocharges it by letting you dive into the fray yourself and hunt down waves of orcs alongside your system of traps. Beginning life as a timed...
With the return of the mainline Monster Hunter series to Nintendo consoles, it only makes sense for its cult classic turn-based spin-off to get another chance at the limelight. Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin puts you in the shoes of a Monster Rider, rather than a hunter, who...
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance takes up the D&D hack and slash mantle from the classic Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance games from 20 years ago, bringing a new cast of heroes and plenty of co-op-focused fantasy brawling. As with the tabletop game it adapts, the experience is certainly enjoyable with...
Joining Untitled Goose Game in the oddly specific “indie games centred around mischievous waterfowl” genre is Mighty Goose, a love letter to classic arcade run and gun games, featuring a bounty hunter goose in power armour for some strange reason. While retro nostalgia is a well many indie developers have...
Knockout City shows how a relatively simple premise of throwing dodgeballs at one another can make for a very engaging multiplayer experience. Through its bombastic presentation and “easy-to-lean, hard-to-master” gameplay, Knockout City has really grabbed me so far. Hopefully the developers will continue to add more content down the line...
Developed by Painkiller and Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly, Outriders is the latest high-profile entry in the genre of co-op focused looter-shooters. Despite a rather rocky launch, impacted by server issues and a few major bugs, the end result is a rather compelling shooter, providing a surprisingly engaging story mode...
After the financial and critical success of Monster Hunter: World, its successor has some Zorah Magdaros-sized shoes to fill. Bringing the franchise back to a Nintendo console after the Xbox One, PS4 and PC-exclusive Monster Hunter: World, Monster Hunter Rise continues most of the quality-of-life improvements and steady streamlining of...
Fans of classic Legend of Zelda titles will feel right at home with Heliocentric Studios’ Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos. The game takes many elements from those classic action-adventure titles, while adding rogue-like, multiplayer and farming sim components to mix things up somewhat. Rogue Heroes is certainly very charming, and...
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury continues Nintendo’s long-running strategy of shepherding all of their Wii U classics onto the far more popular Nintendo Switch. The latest title repackages the 2013 platformer for the hybrid console, along with bundling a whole new exclusive game mode. Bringing along some mechanical...
Team17’s Worms franchise has been going strong for well over 20 years at this stage. As such, perhaps it was overdue for a bit of a change-up. The Worms games have previously been strategic turn-based affairs, featuring teams of worms chipping away at each other with various crazy weaponry. This...
The knitted hero known as Sackboy originally debuted in LittleBigPlanet back in 2008, and has returned in its various sequels and spin-offs. Although that franchise has been dormant since 2014, Sony Interactive Entertainment knew that Sackboy is too iconic and adorable to not give him his own game, and thus...
The original Aquanox games were vehicle shooters set deep underwater for the PC in 2001 and 2003. Although not huge successes, they gained a cult following, and as with many cult classics, this led to a crowd-funded sequel many years down the line. Serbia-based developer Digital Arrow has developed Aquanox:...
