Her Majesty’s SPIFFING is a point & click adventure game developed and published by Billy Goat Entertainment. Filled with British wit and humour, thinly veiled jabs at modern politics and tongue in cheek stereo-types, the game succeeds at being entertaining. However, it is found lacking elsewhere.
“Soma is an underrated Sci-Fi masterpiece.”
Soma is a science fiction survival horror-adventure game that was developed & published by Frictional Games. The game takes place in an underwater research facility known as PATHOS-II. Unexpectedly, the crew of PATHOS-II became the last people to exist on Earth after a comet impact caused a major extinction event. There, the last humans survive on a day-to-day basis, attempting to fight the negative effects of their collective isolation. During this period, the machines in PATHOS-II begin to develop human characteristics and a consciousness.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the third entry in the new, rebooted series of Tomb Raider. Released on September 14th 2018 it continues the narrative set up in the Tomb Raider game from 2013 and Rise of the Tomb Raider in 2016.
My Brother Rabbit is the latest game from Artifex Mundi and sees them branch out with a game that sticks to the point and click/hidden object puzzle aspect but is done in a new and fresh way.
Ruiner is a cyberpunk top-down, twin stick-esque shooter video game developed by Reikon Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game takes place in 2091 and is set in a metropolis known as Rengkok. The player takes control of a silent, masked protagonist who attempts to rescue their kidnapped brother from a failing conglomerate, known as Heaven.
Kholat offers up its own dark explanation of the mysterious, unsolved death of nine hikers in the Ural Mountains on February 2nd, 1959. A premise that could make for a chilling and scary horror game. Sadly, the end result is mind-numbingly boring and incredibly ineffective.
Well, this is a review I never imagined I would be writing. Shenmue is one of my favourite video games of all time. I played it to death in my younger years and have often reminisced ever since. Originally, it released in 1999 on the SEGA Dreamcast. Next year, it will have been 20 years since it all began. I’ve often dreamed of a re-release on modern platforms.
Submerged is an indie game developed & published by Uppercut Games, it released in 2015. From a third-person perspective, you control a young girl named Miku. As Miku, you explore a dystopian future where global warming has flooded the world. Submerged was made by a team of former BioShock developers and was chiefly inspired by Journey and Shadow of the Colossus.
