Author: Christian Donlan

[ad_1] Let the tears flow. Dungeon of the Endless is a game with an easy lyricism. It is a bright, cruel poetry of doors and what lies behind them. You have crashed your spaceship and now you are underground somewhere. A catacomb of doors. You must get a crystal from one end of each…

[ad_1] The fantasy of subscription services is that one day we’ll have time. I joined Game Pass for the same reason I own a bunch of large, beautiful novels I have yet to read: Ooh, one day I’ll have time for that. So let’s pretend, just for one Sunday, that the rainy…

[ad_1] Dome Keeper is a thrillingly bad time. You know this sort of game: claustrophobic, tense, mercilessly well designed. A sharp design. The best kind of awful. At first, playing the recent demo, I was like: hey, this is SteamWorld Dig! Kind of. I’m on an strange planet, protected by a funny little…

[ad_1] I found out about Tile Cities the way I find out about almost all PC gems – from the wonderful Sin Vega on RPS. I have been playing it on and off for the past week, slowly getting drawn in. Now the inevitable has happened and I go to bed and see those…

[ad_1] Drawings, paintings, photographs, found objects, and text: Leanne Shapton’s work crosses boundaries. So what brings it all together? This: she is a poet of absence. Her best stuff often seems to speak of people who are no longer present, and the empty chairs she places on the stage are perfect spaces to allow…

[ad_1] Laser Dog Games turns a deadly game show into a fizzing delight. Deathrun TV is a twin-stick shooter, of which there are many. But it’s a twin-stick created by Laser Dog Games, a micro-studio with a knack for making games that just feel really good. Whether it’s the inverted controls of ALONE, which…

[ad_1] It’s weird to think that, for such a cheerful game, any level of OlliOlli World would absolutely kill you in real life. You would die. You would break every bone you ever knew you had. You would be crushed, flattened, exploded-on-impact. And yet, it’s so lovely! It’s so chirpy! This was true…

[ad_1] Six players can team up online in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, Shredder’s Revenge. That is pretty wild, isn’t it? But even more wild is the fact that I’ve had to play single-player for the last few days, and yet I’ve still had a wonderful time. What a lovely game this…

[ad_1] My daughter is almost nine, and I discovered recently that she’s reached the age at which the right drink matters. The drink to set you up for a day. The drink to be seen with. I realised this because a while back we were at a coffee shop getting an elaborate…

[ad_1] Flashback, the Delphine platformer from 1992, has a sequel on the way. It’s called Flashback 2, but the 2 is very small so it looks sciencey. We’ve known about this for a while, but we’ve just got a proper glimpse of the game at Geoff’s Summer Games Fest thing. I say proper…