Video games can provide any number of ways for a person to relax, unwind, chill out and, if for only a little while, escape to somewhere else. And the desire to find this feeling has manifested itself in many ways and wildly different offerings. Some find that escapism in epic fantasy RPGs, some in blockbuster […]
PowerWash Simulator, and now it’s sequel, have honed in on a winning formula of giving players already-compelling games of calm and cathartic cleaning action in completely original maps, and then extending their lifespans with licensed DLC from some shit-hot franchises. Having already taken us to Adventure Time‘s Land of Ooo, Powerwash Simulator 2 heads to
Right from the front-end experience, Cultic presents itself as the quintessential 90s FPS with little threatening to get between you and the action. Aside from a gracious helping of settings to tweak, including a welcome spread of accessibility-minded options, you’re only a short few seconds from being in control of a grizzled detective, known simply
A lot of the messaging around Denshattack! has gone to some effort to align the game with a lot of iconic 2000s extreme sports titles, throwing around hooks like “Tony Hawk with trains,” but it also bears a lot of comparison to the Jet Set Radio games. Not only in the obvious ways, like its
If I’m ever asked for recommendations for great VR games, which sadly happen less and less lately, it’s never long before the Moss games are brought up. Starting life on the PlayStation VR but quickly spreading to other platforms along with a sequel, Moss’s dioramic world, expressive protagonist and unique split between first and third-hand
D-topia imagines a world where humanity has long since hit its lowest lows, the kind required to prompt a bold new direction for the future. That new direction is the Utopia Project, created to bring “The greatest happiness to the greatest number of people” by leveraging AI, genetic engineering, synthetic environments and social algorithms, and
There are two titles I played on my Nintendo 3DS more than any other, and both just happened to be rhythm games. The first, which I reckon I’d sunk quadruple-digit hours into by the end, was Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (I’m including the sequel in that number). But whenever that threatened to become tiresome, I’d switch
The first thing that struck me when starting Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was just how colourful it is. The original game was released in a period of AAA gaming where colour depth was in very short supply. Colour palettes were muted, and soft, bloomy lighting gave the game a dreamlike effect. Resynced could not
