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I wish I could go back in time to the 80s, hit up an arcade and show someone playing the original PAC-MAN a glimpse of Shadow Labyrinth. Imagine it. Hey, you know that yellow cheese-wheel looking guy you’re guiding through a maze right now? Well, in 2025, he looks like...
PATAPON 1+2 Replay is a release that marks a bygone era. A pair of rhythm games developed by Japan Studio, a defunct PlayStation team, they’re a vital piece of the console developer’s history. Coming from a period when bountiful amounts of weirdness, creativity, and ingenious game design were coming out of...
A point-and-click adventure with strong horror themes and a gorgeous pixel-art aesthetic, The Drifter is something of a lovechild between Twin Peaks and Wolf Creek. Developed by Melbourne-based studio Powerhoof (the team behind asymmetric multiplayer dungeon-crawler Crawl), this title is described as a “pulp adventure thriller” and has had the...
Following the success of THPS 1 + 2, developer Iron Galaxy steps in to give us the long-awaited Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4. Reimagining, more than remaking, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (2001) and 4 (2002) for a modern audience, we are treated to updated graphics, a stacked...
The last 3D Donkey Kong platformer was released last century. Let that sink in. It’s been an incredibly long time between drinks for everybody’s favourite ape. Of course, that doesn’t mean he’s been out of the spotlight. Starring in some incredibly strong side-scrolling platformers, continuing to feature in ensemble Mario...
When it comes to being a tiny little guy in a big world, there is a decent list of games. You’ve got older titles like Pikmin, Chibi-Robo and Katamari Damacy. There are also newer titles like Tinykin, Grounded, and It Takes Two. Now we can add Misc. A Tiny Tale...
In an industry where high-fidelity graphics are so often associated with triple-A titles, you’d be forgiven for assuming Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is a triple-A title too. But no, this narrative stealth game set in a fictional city reminiscent of industrial-era London reminds us that the big publishers don’t have...
And after all, shouldn’t we leave this world better than we found it?
Everdeep Aurora is a cosy adventure platformer game where you play as a young cat drilling down into the ground to find her lost mother. It’s a brisk and minimalist experience, deliberately evoking games on the original Game Boy. It’s an adorable and engaging adventure while it lasts, however, its...
In 2019, Grizzly Games released the “minimalist city builder” game ISLANDERS, where you slowly build a small civilisation from a procedurally generated island, using the building packs given to you each round. I got this game during the pandemic, and it was a great distraction from the stress of Tom...
Steam nowadays often feels like an overwhelming tide of Early Access and newly released games vying for your attention (while Valve happily takes a massive 30% revenue cut from each). Against this storm of releases (get it), you still get the regular title that may not make it massive, but...
