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After accomplishing the utterly daunting task of reviewing The Lord of the Rings: Gollum earlier this year, I was itching to play a game set in the universe of Middle Earth that isn’t a potential contender for the worst game of the year. The Lord of the Rings: Return to...
Step into the whimsical world of Cuisineer, where culinary delights meet dungeon-crawling adventures. This charming indie game, a familiar presence at PAX Australia’s Indie Lounge, invites you to join Pom, the friendly cat girl armed with a spatula and boba tea, on a quest to revive her family’s debt-ridden eatery,...
EA Sports WRC is developed by racing game (and Rally game) specialists Codemasters. This marks the first time they have been in control of the official World Rally Championship license in donkey’s years. This one started development as the sequel to the sublime Dirt Rally 2.0 which in my view...
League of Legends (LoL) started its life in 2009 as a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) inspired by the popular World of Warcraft mod, DOTA. The title is now popular enough that its led to a whole bunch of tie-in media, like the popular animated TV series Arcane. There’s been...
For going on eighteen years now, Like a Dragon (formally Yakuza) protagonist Kazuma Kiryu has been gracing our screens in one way or another. Though they’re an outstanding hero from SEGA and personally my favourite video game protagonist of all time, their history is a little bit complicated. Largely because developer RGG...
How often have you watched a football game and gotten upset because you didn’t agree with the club’s strategy? Do you find yourself disagreeing with a club’s decision to loan or sell a player? With Football Manager 2024, you get to make the managerial decisions that you believe will lead...
While I love a good puzzle game, The Talos Principle (2014) was one huge gauntlet of puzzle after puzzle with only minimal story in between, which almost made me bounce off it completely (I bounced off The Witness for the same reasons). The Talos Principle 2 massively expands the narrative...
Glancing at a screenshot of Thirsty Suitors, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s some kind of Jet Set Radio spiritual successor: colourful characters, grinding on skateboards, teen punks. Stylistically, this narrative-focused title borrows some of the visual language of other titles in the “rebellious skaters” genre.
In 2021, I criticised WarioWare: Get it Together for its needlessly complicated control scheme, and wistfully remembered the intuitive and easy controls of the WarioWare Smooth Moves for the Nintendo Wii. Well, somebody at Nintendo must have been paying attention, because WarioWare: Move it! is the perfect successor to the...
It’s been almost a year and a half since Pathea’s My Time At Sandrock was released into Early Access. Sandrock is a cosy mismatch of a game, combining mechanics and gameplay styles from the farming/life/building sims many know and love. Set in the desert oasis town of Sandrock, you play...
Jusant
I’ve always been terribly afraid of heights. Rollercoasters, cliffsides, even Ferris wheels… you’ll struggle to get me near the things, with the fear largely stemming from loss of control. Consider my surprise then when the rock climbing game Jusant, which has players hundreds of meters in the air scaling a...
