Is imitation the best form of flattery? Rainy Night Creation’s Spy Drops coyly bills itself as being “inspired by stealth action from the 90...

Let the record show I have no beef with free-to-play games. If a game is riddled with microtransactions, paid-for cosmetics, and has a seaso...

Two glass snails, a framed picture of my girlfriend’s nephew, a small model frog, several Christmas tree baubles, and the temporary disablem...

You can see why they thought this would work. Asymmetric horror-themed multiplayer is IllFonic’s bread and butter and the much-missed Friday...

Princess Maker 2: Regeneration  is a game that should come with a content warning. How else am I supposed to approach a Nintendo Switch game...

Oh, how I miss squibs. These days action movies simulate blood splatter from gunshots with CGI and, while now relatively convincing, it just...

You really can’t polish a turd. We live in a renaissance for video game remasters, remakes, and re-releases, where even the most obscure tit...

Bonfire night, 1998. I’m at a friend’s house for fireworks and, afterward, I watch him playing a new import with a weird name. He’s stuck in...

Jeff Minter has been making my soul sing for three decades. I have hazy memories of being confused by the Amiga version of   Revenge of the ...

The VR dream isn’t dead, but it’s starting to look a bit wonky. The Metaverse is a joke, PSVR2 is dying on the vine and, almost four years a...

One hit means death. I can’t help but respect the purity of Ghostrunner 2 , which follows in the muffled ninjacyborg footsteps of its excell...

The Bookwalker  takes place in a world very much like our own, with the teensy difference that writers can not only conjure up entire worlds...

Perhaps I’m just not the right person to be writing about anime magical lesbian teenagers. As I sat on the London Underground playing  Death...

I missed   Ghostrunner   on its original release, but when a polished next-gen edition landed on PlayStation 5 in 2021 I fell deeply dippy i...

If I could wave a magic wand and grant myself video game skills I’d become a shmup expert. The first game I can ever remember playing is Hyb...

Sony’sBuzz! trivia game series was a massive PlayStation hit in the 2000s. Its straight forwardness was key to its success, with the game fa...

Planet of Lana  absolutely reeks of competency.  This cinematic 2D platformer is the debut release from indie developer Wishfully Studios, a...

It’s 1947. You’ve just killed your useless writer husband and dumped him the well. Time to get out of town and start a new life… if only you...

Sakeworld is objectively not a good game. This side-scrolling brawler boasts some of the worst combat mechanics I’ve played in years, janky...

We’re now three decades on from Doom and iD Software’s cast iron classic has still got it where it counts. Its blistering speed, streamline...