REVIEWS
Short, focused impressions after earning 100%. Covering what truly stands out.
Terrible Lizards Review
Terrible Lizards is a first-person horror parkour game and the debut title from WDR Studios, a brand new indie studio founded by the creators of JT Music, the YouTube channel best known for its video game inspired songs. It launches on October 29 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and if you’ve seen even a single trailer, the Five Nights at Freddy’s comparisons are pretty much unavoidable. Swap the haunted pizzeria for a dusty roadside dinosaur park, throw in a healthy dose of wall running, and you’ve got the general idea.
Valor Mortis Review
Valor Mortis is the first wholly owned IP from One More Level, the Polish studio behind the Ghostrunner games, and it’s a soulslike with a pretty big twist. Set in a supernatural take on 19th-century Europe, you play as William, a resurrected soldier of Napoleon’s Grande Armée who fights with weapons from the Napoleonic era alongside a handful of supernatural powers. The twist is that the whole thing plays out in first person, with some light parkour thrown into the mix. That makes a lot of sense once you remember who made it….
Boltgun 2 Review
Boltgun 2 is the second entry in a sub-series that takes the Warhammer 40k universe and squeezes it into a retro-style 3D FPS with the same DNA as the classic Doom games. If you played the first one, you already know the deal. If you didn’t, the pitch is about as simple as it gets…
Order of The Sinking Star Review
Order of the Sinking Star is the latest game from the magnificent mind of Jonathan Blow, the same mind behind Braid (one of my all time favourite puzzle games) and The Witness (another amazing puzzle game)…
Star Wars: Galactic Racer Review
Star Wars: Galaxy Racer is a racing game with a twist. Galactic Racer is basically a roguelike racer. I knew nothing about the game before I sat down with it, so that came as a bit of a surprise at first, but it didn't take long before I kind of fell in love with the idea. It works incredibly well.
End of Abyss Review
End of Abyss is the debut title from Section 9, and you only need to glance at a single screenshot to guess where some of its developers came from…
Minecraft Dungeons 2 Review
Minecraft Dungeons 2 is the next instalment in, well, Minecraft Dungeons. If you've never played either game and you're the type of person who hears the word "Minecraft" and immediately switches off, assuming it's all blocks and building, this series might genuinely surprise you…
Control Resonant Review
Control Resonant is the sequel to Remedy's 2019 hit Control, and it picks things up some years after the events of the first game. This time around you are in control of Dylan, Jesse's brother, and while he is a very different character in both backstory and personality…
Silent Hill Townfall Review
Silent Hill Townfall is the latest entry in a series that, not all that long ago, genuinely felt like it was fading away. Fast forward to today and Silent Hill is back in full swing, with multiple recent releases from multiple different studios, each putting their own spin on the fog…
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush Review
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush is the latest entry in Milestone's Hot Wheels series, and it does something the two Unleashed games never did: it goes open world…
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Review
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is the newest entry in Asobo's A Plague Tale series, and it's a genuine departure from the formula the studio built its name on. Gone is the stealth heavy rat puzzler structure of the earlier games. In its place is a full action-adventure experience, dropped into a completely different setting.
The Sinking City 2 Review
The Sinking City 2 is the second game in the series, but rather than building on what came before, it heads in a completely different direction. Where the first game was an investigative mystery, this one is a full-blown survival horror, and honestly, for a studio taking its first real crack at the genre, it is anything but a rough attempt.
Mortal Shell 2 Review
Every now and then you play a game that's just "ok" and think to yourself, this isn't bad, but it needs a lot of work, hopefully the sequel fixes it. Mortal Shell 2 is the absolute pinnacle of that scenario.
Duskfade Review
Duskfade is a love letter to the classic PS2-era 3D platformers, wearing its inspirations from some of the genre greats proudly on its sleeve.
Denshattack! Review
Denshattack! is a mix of unique games that ends up being even more unique than the sum of its parts. The best way to describe it is an arcade platformer racer crossed with Tony Hawk's, but with a TRAIN. Yes, a train, flipping and tricking its way through a colourful dystopian Japan.
The Adventures of Elliot Review
The Adventures of Elliot is Square Enix's latest release, and while it is not as big or ambitious as some of their other titles, it finds real beauty in keeping things simple…
Mina the Hollower Review
Mina the Hollower is a retro action adventure from the creators of Shovel Knight. This time around they have gone with a true 8-bit, top-down style heavily inspired by the classic Game Boy Zelda games…
Directive 8020 Review
Directive 8020 is the next installment in Directive 8020 from Supermassive Games and the latest entry in The Dark Pictures Anthology series. This time the series moves away from grounded horror and heads into space, which honestly works surprisingly well…
Planet of Lana 2 Review
Planet of Lana II continues the cinematic puzzle platformer journey with Lana and her loyal companion Mui…
Nioh 3 Review
Nioh 3 follows the trend a lot of modern games are chasing and makes the jump to an open world structure. That shift can be risky. Some series completely lose their identity when they go open world, trading tight level design for big but empty spaces. Thankfully, Nioh 3 absolutely nails the transition…

