When I was in high school, living in a hilly and tree-lined suburb just outside of metropolitan Perth, a group of friends and I found an abandoned house. Well, less a house than a whole mansion, obscured by overgrowth, caked in dust and mould – in hindsight probably incredibly unsafe – and even sporting an […]
Though I’d argue the series has never fully nailed its vision, there’s a reason that so many continue to be drawn to the Little Nightmares games. The horror equation in these horror-puzzle-platformers has always been flimsy at best, each entry a slideshow of classically-spooky environments ruled by a catalogue of Monsters™, but it largely works
Finding myself in the throes of espionage, war and nonsensical chicanery, I entered Titanium Court, a mere fawn in the headlights. Trapped in this unfamiliar fortress, surrounded by strange folk speaking in an uncanny tongue, my only goal was to escape. This is a game that revels in the bizarre and philosophical. With the menagerie
PowerWash Simulator constitutes a fairly big chunk of my video game playtime in recent years. Not because there’s a huge amount of replay value in it – though there’s nothing wrong with jumping back in for a bit of zen cleaning time while I ignore my real-world duties – but because it sported a long
There are few times where I’d find myself encouraging of a game developer, especially one that’s built a reputation on delivering creative, unique experiences with each subsequent game, to go straight into a sequel off the back of a hit. It is inevitable, however, and in the case of Supergiant Games and Hades II, I
AI is bad. Humans are an expandable impedance to progress. You are the last guy, tasked with exposing and eliminating whatever rogue system has kicked off the end of life as we know it. This is charted territory in fiction, a cautionary tale repeated over decades. But few masters of doomsday sci-fi possessed the kind
When we talk about musical video games there are a few possible things that can be in discussion. There are games driven purely by music, Guitar Hero and Beat Saber are good examples, or there are games with a strong musical theme, like Hi-Fi Rush and Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Music. Keep looking, and you’ll
I try my best not to spend too much time comparing one game to another in the context of a review. It tends to get in the way of looking at the game in front of me and assessing it for what it is. But in the case of Beyond Words – a game you
