Kalanoro Review—A Little Band of Hope

I had already decided what sort of game Kalanoro was before I played it. The colours were bright, the characters were small and expressive, and its world seemed to operate according to that particu...

The Relic: First Guardian Review—A Relic of Better Ideas

There is a particular pleasure in finally understanding a Soulslike. At first, its enemies seem to speak in a language of feints, delayed strikes and impossible combinations, but gradually the...

Dream Cage Review—Trapped Between Sleep and Waking

There is something uniquely unsettling about the idea of being trapped inside your own sleep. Sleep paralysis turns something ordinarily comforting into something uncertain, where the familiar spaces...

Roguecraft DX Review—Learning to Read the Dark

There is something wonderfully direct about Roguecraft DX. In an era when roguelikes can feel like sprawling machines of progression, this is a game that gets much of its pleasure from the simple act...

Lone Echo Retrospective Review—A Signal in the Dark

I came back to Lone Echo in 2026 for a slightly dispiriting reason: I was looking for the sort of high-end VR experience that used to make putting on a headset feel like an event. There was a time...

Onimusha: Way of the Sword Review—Twenty Years Later, The Sword Is Still Sharp

There is a particular kind of excitement that comes from seeing an old favourite step back into the light. Onimusha has been absent for so long that its return initially feels less like the arrival...

BrokenLore: DON’T LIE Review—The Shape of Something Memorable

I remember finishing the BrokenLore: DON’T LIE demo during Steam Next Fest and thinking that, at last, someone might have found an interesting way into a familiar kind of horror. It wasn’t particul...

Gunman Contracts – Stand Alone Early Access Review—A Contract Worth Taking

I have a soft spot for Gunman Contracts. I spent a lot of time with the original Half-Life: Alyx mods, and they captured something that VR shooters often struggle to find: the simple pleasure of...

1000xRESIST Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Review—A Strange Kind of Immortality

There are games that tell you a story, and then there are games that leave you with the peculiar sensation of having remembered something that never happened to you. 1000xRESIST belongs to the latter...

Knights of Fiona Review—A Knight’s Journey That Never Quite Begins

There is something immediately comforting about returning to CharacterBank’s worlds. I have a particular fondness for RUINSMAGUS, the studio’s earlier attempt at making the kind of earnest, anime-i...

Keeper Review—The Light at the End of Somewhere

There is something quietly absurd about playing as a lighthouse. Not the person who keeps one burning through the night, but the lighthouse itself: an old tower of stone and glass that wakes from its...

Fear The Timeloop Review—Lost Between the Minutes