Developer Rabbit & Bear Studios Publisher 505 Games Format PC (tested), PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Release Out now Talking up the quantities rather than qualities of a game is par for the course these days, but to put it so boldly in the

Format PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Developer Mossmouth, BlitWorks Publisher Mossmouth Origin US, Spain Release 2020 Five little words that can spell doom in Spelunky 2: “Your voice echoes in here…” The game never explains their precise mea

Developer ILCA Publisher Bandai Namco Format PC, PS4, PS5 (tested), Xbox Series Release Out now As dry, barren places that can stretch for miles with little variation in the landscape, deserts hardly seem the ideal choice for an open-world game. Base

Simogo’s ninth release – a puzzler clad in the garb of Nouvelle Vague cinema and late-’90s survival horror – is, if you hadn’t already guessed, a game of contrasts. That is immediately clear as a stylishly attired woman arrives at her destination in

Entering Splash Damage’s offices, in the leafy London borough of Bromley, we’re immediately greeted by the studio’s mission statement, filling one of the reception area’s walls: “We make team-based games that forge lifelong friendships”. Our inner cy

Developer/publisher Nolla Games Format PC Release 2020 Poisoned and bleeding, we hurriedly descend toward a large chest, tucked away in the only visible alcove that isn’t on fire. A second later, its lid swings open, revealing a set of teeth. Chomp.

Developer Publisher Format Origin Release Evil Empire Ubisoft PC France Out now (Early Access) Few long-running videogame protagonists seem quite as well suited to starring in a Roguelike as the Prince Of Persia. The variations of the character point

Developer Shared Memory Publisher Bigmode Format PC (tested), PS5, Switch Release Out now Your journey begins inside a flower. Press a button and its petals unfurl, freeing your avatar – a squat little critter, just eight pixels high – to hop out an

Arriving at London’s Excel exhibition centre, as one of the 10,000-plus visitors to the Pokémon European International Championships, you’d be forgiven for missing the esports stage where the game itself is being played. It’s tucked away at the rear,

As a 19-year-old whose last physical magazine subscription was to Doctor Who Adventures, I am ecstatic to have found Edge. As someone whose concerns shifted to my undergrad and filmmaking, I have been swayed back into the gaming industry. It has been

Even if you haven’t watched the film in its entirety, you’re probably acquainted with the scene in Barbie where Margot Robbie steps out of her heels only for her feet to stay in their perfect pointed shape. Whether or not the Mattel-backed movie comm

Developer Odd Meter Publisher 11 Bit Studios Format PC Release Out now The young nun trudges up the wet dirt path that carves the snow in two, steel pail in hand. Arriving at the well, she places it down, grabbing the chain attached to the well’s own

Gwyn, Lord Of Cinder, falls beneath your sword. It’s the culmination of a long, hard journey, after many hours fighting your way through this ceaselessly hostile world. Now, as the music fades away, all that’s left to do is choose. Will you preserve

Game Hades II Developer/publisher Supergiant Games Format PC Release Out now (Early Access) Surprise is one of the foundational principles of any good Roguelike. The potential of procedural chaos is the tradeoff for surrendering a degree of authorial

Developer Arbitrary Metric Publisher Serenity Forge Format PC, Switch Origin UK, US Release TBA 2024 At the end of the day, you walk into the sea. And who could blame you? After all, at this luxury resort, you are the only one doing any work: for

Developer Bethesda Game Studios Publisher Bethesda Softworks Format PC, PS4, Xbox One Release 2015 At launch, in 2015, Fallout 4 arrived like the dropping of a bomb. At the point of impact, it broke records, flattening GTAV’s for the highest number o

Game developers and publishers have always competed for our time, but the fight has never been more desperate than in recent years. According to VG Insights’ 2024 PC games market report, the number of games released on Steam has been shooting up of l

Developer/publisher Kaizen Game Works Format PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Origin UK Release 2025 Following Paradise Killer, one of the most striking debuts of recent years, is no easy task: for its second game, Kaizen Game Works is dou

The name of Caroline Marchal’s studio is a real scene-setter. In 2016, when Marchal first decided to go solo after nearly two decades at Quantic Dream and Sony, she called on ex-colleague Steve Kniebihly for help picking a name, and he suggested ‘In

Developer Arika Publisher Nintendo Format Switch Release Out now Arika has been working with Nintendo for two decades now, but even the Shinagawa-based studio must have been surprised when it got the call to make a new entry in its genteel scuba-divi

Developer Everstone Studio Publisher NetEase Format PC Origin China Release 2024 Over a dozen or so hours we cover a lot of ground in Everstone’s RPG, but it doesn’t feel like adventuring so much as rambling. Rarely do we pick a point on the map, pl

Yes, we grant you, most homicide investigations tend to be posthumous. Though don’t be misled: the title alludes to Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’ 19th-century novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, whose eponymous protagonist is both victim an

Even if you don’t spend much time watching TV or films, you can’t have missed the renaissance in videogame adaptations. While there has long been a tradition of videogame-based anime series in Japan, occasionally breaking through to the west, the pas