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Pioner – It’s Just Built Different

Liam Freeman — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:00:40 +0000

Pioner drops you, with no memories, into a wasteland world, tasked with exploring the wastes to find out what happened in your past and help a town of wanderers against the many terrifying creatures that hunt them. Pioner is self described as an MMO FPS which focuses on resource management and exploration with elements of […]

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Ragdoll Physics Experiment – Chaos is a Feature

Liam Freeman — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:09 +0000

Ragdoll Physics Experiment is a 3D narrative game focused entirely on ragdoll physics and getting through different tasks and situations whilst playing as said ragdoll character. It’s both witty and funny, while also testing your practicality as you build and traverse different courses to achieve victory and reach the next area. Giraffe Head Studios recently […]

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Remnants of Yore – An Early Look at PGC

Liam Freeman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:00:46 +0000

Remnants of Yore is a cosy combination of running a store and roguelite action as you build up your stock, complete quests and cruise around town helping anyone and everyone on your adventure. Remnants of Yore was exhibited at Pocket Gamer Connects London with a booth for all to come and get their hands on, […]

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Drop Duchy – Princley Puzzle, or Ponderous Pauper?

James Wilson — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:00:22 +0000

Drop Duchy – Complete Edition dropped onto Xbox Game Pass early this year, so I decided to take a look at this strange puzzle/deck building/rogue-lite. What I found intrigued me. If you’ve read any of my other reviews, you’ve probably realised by now I tend to start with some variation of “so the gameplay loop […]

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Dark Quest 4 is a big stab of nostalgia, right to the face.

John Hobkinson — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:00:07 +0000

There’s something undeniably comforting about a dungeon crawler that knows exactly what it wants to be. From Brain Seal Entertainment — the studio behind other gems like Monarchy (which I happily lost an entire weekend to) and Story of a Gladiator (a game I enjoyed far more than I expected) — comes the latest entry […]

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When the great eye of The King is Watching, you better be ready to get back to work.

John Hobkinson — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:06 +0000

The King Is Watching comes to us from relative unknowns Hypnohead, but is published by the figurative giants tinyBuild. To give you a quick idea of what it’s about, Imagine Lord of the Rings, but in this instance the all-seeing eye is not that of the enemy — it’s that of the king. Of who, […]

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Capes – Crime Fighting Ain’t Pretty

James Wilson — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000

Capes is a turn based strategy RPG set in a world not unlike ours. A shadowy corporation rules the streets, punishing those who try to do good whilst controlling the narrative and labelling them terrorists. The key difference? They have superpowers. Capes runs like XCOM without the extra gumph (this is no shade on XCOM, […]

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Everwarder – Not Quite a Glowing Success

James Wilson — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:19:17 +0000

I want to like Everwarder, I really do. If I had to give it a genre label, it would be tower-defense/rogue-like… It doesn’t quite capture what the game is about, but it’s the closest box I can find. Everwarder drew me in with its simple but charming pixel graphics and tinkly soundtrack, and kept me […]

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Murder By Death proves it isn’t easy to make a good detective game

Reuben Howe — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:00:48 +0000

A dead body. A mansion full of suspects. Two hours until Scotland Yard arrives for your verdict. The premise of the timed detective game Murder by Death is sound. I might even call it inspired. Unfortunately, the unsanded edges and duct-taped corners are exemplified by its genre and lead to an unsatisfying slog through a […]

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Escape From Tarkov – Duck Hunt Event

Liam Freeman — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:40:56 +0000

Escape From Tarkov has just released its new event in partnership with Escape From Duckov, two wildly different aesthetics but with enough similarities in both name and content that they’ve pulled together to give players a taste of what each other has to offer. in Escape From Tarkov you can find a new quest from […]

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Get ready to feel the highs and lows of the slot machine with CloverPit

John Hobkinson — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:00:51 +0000

From developer Panik Arcade — a relative newcomer — CloverPit comes hot out of the gate and is already grabbing attention. CloverPit is chasing two very loud modern trends. First, the ongoing roguelite renaissance that truly kicked off in the early 2010s with The Binding of Isaac and FTL, then roared into the mainstream with […]

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Grindstone – Gems, Guts, and yes, plenty of Grinding

James Wilson — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:00:34 +0000

Grindstone originally began life as an Apple Arcade exclusive back in 2019, then an Epic Games Store exclusive in 2022. It eventually landed on Xbox and PlayStation consoles in 2023, and by god I’m glad it did. I technically slept on this game for three years, until I finally mustered up the courage to grab […]

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I loved throwing anything at everything in tactical roguelike Blightstone

Reuben Howe — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:00:01 +0000

In a sea of roguelike turn-based adventures, how can something like Blightstone stand out? How can it make itself one of the memorable “few” rather than the saturated “many”? Many are the games that let us use martial weapons to harm foes. Many are the games that let us throw martial weapons at said foes. […]

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Roots Devour – Lovecraftian Horror, or Eldritch Bother?

James Wilson — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:00:57 +0000

Roots Devour is a stylish game, there’s no denying that. How much fruit this tree bears will be very dependent on how well you gel with that style though. Starting at the basics, Rewinding Games describe Roots Devour as a “strategic exploration” game. Using your mouse (with WASD to pan), you connect vines from your […]

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Death Howl successfully reimagines deckbuilding from Roguelike into Soulslike

Reuben Howe — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:00:43 +0000

If you’re going to be off-put by a single failure, then the experience will be short-lived. However, Death Howl provides so many ways to not fail by rewarding exploration, minor combat repetition, deck experimentation and completing quests.

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Don’t Scream Together – Muffle Your Screams!

Liam Freeman — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:00:24 +0000

Don’t Scream Together is a co-operative horror experience based in a forest, with you and several friends investigating a woodland as you either attempt to escape together or rise up against the survivors as a hunter. Most of Don’t Scream Together is portrayed in that classic Blair Witch, video camera ‘found footage’ style. This makes […]

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In Bladesong being a smith is more than just hammering steel

Reuben Howe — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:00:11 +0000

In a world where TCG Card Shop Simulator and a deluge of other “simulator” games exist, perhaps it isn’t surprising that we have a few about smithing. For the appeal that a hot smelter and hard anvil might have, though, none have really taken off. Bladesong aims to change that, and manages to bring a […]

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Into the Grid makes roguelike deckbuilding feel fresh

Reuben Howe — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:00:47 +0000

From card effects slicing across the screen to enemies being able to grapple and grab you, the first-person camera of Into the Grid brings the genre to a mostly unexplored place. Being thrust face-first into some of these Sentinels forces a sense of urgency and engagement that more distant and static art can’t do as easily.

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Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch – A Potential Gem Buried in Mechanics

James Wilson — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:00:34 +0000

Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch is an interesting beast. Part deck builder, part tower defense and part dungeon management, this is a game of so many gears I’m unsure if they all make the machine run smoother or jam up the mechanisms. The basic mechanics of Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch are explained well enough. Heroes are coming to […]

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To a T – earnest heart, choppy frames

John Mulcahey — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:00:58 +0000

To a T has all the right elements you’d expect from a Keita Takahashi game. It is earnest, charming, simple and full of the act of play, both mechanically and aesthetically. The music is joyous and the visuals are a lovely mishmash of shapes, colours and vibrancy. As one would expect from the man behind […]

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Misery – Tearing The World Apart One Emission At A Time

Liam Freeman — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:00:07 +0000

Misery is a look into a Stalker-inspired world filled with monsters, anomalies and sometimes the odd polkadot-clad dwarf, brought to you by Playtypus Entertainment. It really does put you into a miserable situation where you relive the emission event over and over slowly gathering materials to craft and scrape an existence together to try and […]

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Overkill’s The Walking Dead – A Solo Look Into a Dead World

Liam Freeman — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:00:53 +0000

Overkill’s The Walking Dead was a bizarre child of Overkill and 505 Games, published by Starbreeze. It featured a four player co-op adventure that had you explore various fictional areas of Georgia as well as maintaining various safe zones and defending them from some of the more hostile residents and the dead. Now, before we […]

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Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar – Another lovely escape

John Mulcahey — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:00:24 +0000

It is an incredible year. A new Rune Factory and a new Story of Seasons? Wonderful. The gist is that while there are some caveats, Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar is another lovely farming slash life simulator from the original creators of the genre, stuffed with charm and beauty. It looks better than ever. Characters […]

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Killing Floor 3 – Corporate Zombie Slaughter

Liam Freeman — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:00:18 +0000

After many years of slaughtering zeds through Killing Floor 1 and 2 we’ve finally come to the third installment: Killing Floor 3. It comes complete with buckets of limbs, blood and gore as well as a variety of new customisation options and… a few new faces. Killing Floor 3 is a team-based, horde shooter that […]

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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping – Simply Quackers

Rhys Davis — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:00:37 +0000

Story-based adventure games have always been something that interests me. While I usually prefer to play more high octane shooters and others, there is always something very comforting about playing a game intended to be taken at a walking pace where you can truly soak in the story. Duck Detective is exactly this, and — […]

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Splitgate 2 – Now We’re Shooting with Portals!

Rhys Davis — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:00:06 +0000

Well now, Splitgate 2 has certainly come out to one hell of a reception eh? Ian Proulx, CEO of 1047 Games who develops Splitgate 2, came onstage while at Summer Games Fest and boldly told us that the FPS market is stale, and he’s sick of playing the same Call of Duty. “I grew up […]

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Doronko Wanko – Pure Chaos In It’s Cutest Form

Liam Freeman — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:00:12 +0000

Doronko Wanko is all about making a mess. You play as a small Pomeranian or with the soon to be released new dogs and breeds, in a lovely, nice, bright-and-white family home. You’ve just come in from playing in the mud. As soon as you take your first steps in Doronko Wanko you can tell […]

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Dead by Daylight – Five Nights at Freddy’s Chapter — Jumpscaringly Good

Rhys Davis — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 11:00:52 +0000

Dead By Daylight is entering its ninth year, a surprisingly long time for a live service game in today’s day and age. It offers something special to the video game market that means it has, essentially, no competition. Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th are some notable examples of competitors, but nothing has stuck […]

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Rusted Moss — Gameplay Hook

Bryan Taylor — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:00:35 +0000

Games are heavily weighed on the importance of having a particular mechanic or style that makes them stand out in a crowded space. Rusted Moss seems to have found its niche — for better or worse — in its grappling hook mechanic.

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Crayon Shin-Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town — one goofball’s grand holiday

John Mulcahey — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:00:49 +0000

Crayon Shin-Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is the second fusion of Crayon Shin-Chan, beloved anime, and the cult favourite Boku no Nasuyatsumi series. If I’ve lost you already, don’t worry, same. I’ve got zero familiarity with half of this equation — I’ve definitely heard of Shin-Chan, but I’ve never seen an episode or movie, […]

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Ova Magica Early Access – a nice slice of Bavarian life

John Mulcahey — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:00:16 +0000

Cozy games! Wholesome games! Farming simulators! Post Stardew Valley, the genre is on a seemingly infinite upward trajectory as developers across the world seek to release their own slices of agricultural nicety. I, for one, am living my best life as a child of Harvest Moon. While Ova Magica, which recently launched in early access, […]

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Let’s School is a sim builder with big consequences for your actions

Daphne — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:00:47 +0000

Let’s School is a game where you can restore a school to its former glory. You have to manage it well so that your students can pass their exams and achieve their dreams in later life! Everyone has a different experience at school. In Let’s School the job is to give your students good ones. […]

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Gunhead Sees you Trying to Scrap Suspiciously Active Derelict Ships

Benjamin Heathcote — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:00:16 +0000

The gun-blazing action in Gunhead is exciting, but is it as gripping as we'd hoped?

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Hell Pie – Lacks seasoning

John Mulcahey — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:00:27 +0000

Hell Pie, or the second coming of Conker’s Bad Fur Day, is another in a long line of indie-made 3D platformers that aim to recapture the hey-day of collecting shiny things, to, once again, mixed success. It’s hard for me to quantify the enjoyment I had playing Hell Pie with a lingering sense of “is […]

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Dredge — Darkness beneath the surface

Bryan Taylor — Wed, 10 May 2023 13:00:52 +0000

Dredge has simple mechanics that make reeling in fish and catching crustaceans an addictive chore. However, what begins as a seemingly innocent fishing game quickly turns into horrors as unfathomable as the depths you’re dredging.

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Demeo — Delving into a new Dimension

Bryan Taylor — Tue, 09 May 2023 13:00:48 +0000

Fraught with peril and plunder, Demeo allows would-be adventurers to delve into dungeons that are filled with baddies, loot, and surprises around every corner. While this digital dungeon experience offers new ways to roleplay, does it bring an authentic D&D-like campaign or fail the charisma check?

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Bat Boy hits one out of the park

Bryan Taylor — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:00:46 +0000

Bat Boy by X PLUS Games is an ambitious 8-bit side-scrolling tribute to some of the best platformers around.

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Garden of the Sea — Down By The Sea Chore

Bryan Taylor — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 13:00:21 +0000

Garden of the Sea is a farm simulator that gives you a set of islands to relax in with an environment that is as beautiful as you choose to make it.

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Before Your Eyes — The Blink of Time

Bryan Taylor — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:00:55 +0000

Before Your Eyes is an interactive VR story like no other where you experience the joys and discouragement of childhood through the eyes of a child by reliving his memories. Throughout the journey, you’ll discover emotions by connecting his story to the truths of the human condition and what it means to be alive.

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Marsupilami Hoobadventure — Honor Roll

Bryan Taylor — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:00:19 +0000

Marsupilami Hoobadventure is a platformer that wears its inspirations on its sleeve, but manages to create a clever twist of genre-defined mechanics that sets it apart.

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Lego Bricktales — Building Tension

Bryan Taylor — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:00:58 +0000

LEGO Bricktales expands on the original formula that started with LEGO Builder’s Journey — what if you could actually build things in a LEGO game — and adds a fully realized story. With new mechanics and a vast array of building puzzles, does LEGO Bricktales crumble under its own weight or manage to build on top of its predecessor?

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Paradise Marsh — Marsh mellows under the stars

Bryan Taylor — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:00:45 +0000

If relaxation sim is a genre that sounds right up your alley, Paradise Marsh has you covered. From the gorgeous and unabashedly antiquated graphics to the simple, calm music that accents each one of the biomes, it’s easy to get lost in the swamp and love every moment of it.

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Scorn — Hell of a view

Bryan Taylor — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:00:54 +0000

Scorn is an atmospheric horror game that relies on the unsettling environment and unique world of mechanical functions to tell its grotesque story.

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Spellbound: The Magic Within – An Enchanting, Yet Rocky Romp

Matt Fuller — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:00:38 +0000

Visual novels aren’t usually my forte, but that’s not stopped me from dabbling in the genre from time to time and finding the odd gem like Behind the Frame. This time around I took a look at Wyrdren Games Spellbound: The Magic Within, a charming magic-filled story that’s rough around the edges, but full of […]

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Help this Mom and Son Have the Best Month Ever

Daliza Wallace — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:00:08 +0000

Decide the life path of young Mitch and his mother Louise, both struggling to find a better life in 1960s America with racial tension is at an all time high.

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Project Warlock 2 (Early Access) – (War)Lock and Load for Some Retro Shooter Carnage

Matt Fuller — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:00:41 +0000

Project Warlock 2 aims to take players back to the shooters of yesteryear. With its blend of retro shooter gameplay and a few clever twists, developers Buckshot Software aim to capture the same blood, bullets and badassery from the classic like Doom and Quake. After spending roughly 5 hours with a preview build, it seems […]

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Tunic — No Fail, Much Exploring

LEVST3R — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 13:00:09 +0000

Tunic is a lesson in tempering expectations for me. First shown off in teaser form back in 2017. Tunic promised ambient music coupled with gameplay through a familiar inspiration. All was quiet until a couple of years later, ISOMETRICORP Games launched a demo alongside a developer Q&A. Ever since then Tunic has been on my mind. I'm happy to say that it's been worth the wait with a few caveats.

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Inua’s Magical Realism Touches On A Mysterious Historical Event

Hira — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:00:36 +0000

Inua's gameplay fuses magical realism with the historical events of the Franklin Expedition across three timelines.

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Silt — Dark Dreams in the Deep

John Mulcahey — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:00:10 +0000

Silt is a strange thing — written up as a surrealist adventure horror, where you’re tasked as a mysterious diver sent to uncover equally mysterious things in the depths of the ocean. It’s more or less a really bizarre version of Ecco The Dolphin. Which in and of itself, was already quite a strange game. […]

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Heavenly Bodies — Space Oddity

Bryan Taylor — Sun, 29 May 2022 11:00:47 +0000

Heavenly Bodies offers you the hijinks of controlling one or a pair of astronauts with physics-based manipulation in space to solve challenges and complete puzzles.

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