Author: Ruth Cassidy

Broken Roads neglects its best ideas, padding out its runtime with fetch quests that leave you asking “why am I here?” for all the wrong reasons. My favourite RPGs are the ones that really consider exactly who the character is – or can be – in their world. From Tyranny’s power-grasping fatebinder in an occupied…

Don’t Nod drops the melodrama for a poignantly performed story about grief and injustice, where the difficult choices tug at your heart and principles. Commitment can be scarier than any ghost story. When I got married, I spent a lot of time leading up to the wedding borrowing grief from my future self. The prospect…

Never the same game twice, Against the Storm is a rare gem of a city builder that thrives on chaos but exists in perfect balance, evolving with you as you learn and adapt. This isn’t a Game of the Year article, but it could be: from its earliest iteration in Early Access, to its…

Baldur’s Gate 3’s newest patch is the latest to address not just bug fixes or the occasional glitchy animation, but to bring in new additions to the game in response to popular demand. Along with both a customisable difficulty setting and a bragging-rights, one-save-file only mode, the update brings with it new epilogues to…

The Talos Principle 2 is an ambitious sequel that explores bold, if unambiguous territory in its philosophical robot puzzling. The premise of The Talos Principle 2 is a springboard for a number of thought experiments. In a post-human Earth, you have a thousand robots who think, feel and act exactly like humans, without ever…

[ad_1] The reverse city builder is trickier than it appears, but utterly committed to its environmental vision, taking the genre – and every level – to new places. The first level of Terra Nil feels like perfection. What you give to the land and what you take from it renew each other, and…

[ad_1] A rare balance of playfulness and genuine strategic depth, plucked from the margins of history. Medieval marginalia strategy game Inkulinati holds the unique honour of being the only game to make me lament, out loud: “Oh no, he’s not in my butt range.” Overwhelmed in number, I was hoping to force a minotaur-esque…

[ad_1] Sluggish pacing and stripped-back character interactions dull the charm, but there are still scares to be found Tragedy plus time equals… mythology? Cultural fascination with true crime and serial killers is having its moment, and The Devil in Me is comfortable plucking its inspirations from the 1800s. “America’s first serial killer” and…