You play a girl on the cusp of adulthood, trying out different vocations, in this exquisitely rendered 'open world' journey
You play a young guitarist exploring your prog-rock ambitions to the full in this richly enjoyable psychedelic journey
This expansion of last year's hit offers a wider range of missions and side quests to its samurai warfare
As a single-celled animal, your options are limited – and yet this gem of a game is a masterclass in minimalism.
A compelling mission to locate and photograph a series of images in a Māori-influenced world under occupation
There's sublime fun in jet-cleaning a town, and a dodgeball-themed knockout contest has one eye on the Olympics
Part town-planning exercise, part board game, this thoughtful debut gives plenty of scope for strategy and idealism
The big bang meets the whodunnit in this dazzlingly inventive point-and-click adventure spanning time and space
This simple girl-meets-boy story plays out in a series of abstract dioramas, each one bigger than the next
You're a DJ splicing the drums, bass, melody and vocals of your favourite tracks in dizzy new ways in this latest from the makers of Guitar Hero
There’s nothing so gauche or straightforward as a Miss Marple denouement reveal, where you discover whether or not your conclusions were correct. In Paradise Killer the truth is more complicated and, counterintuitively, all the more satisfying for it.
This extraordinary game tests you to the limit – even as it insists that it absolutely does not exist
While the game’s style is like a Homeric epic seen through the panel of a comic book, the soundtrack of melancholic twanging guitar complicates the theme to something new and unexpected, a kind of undead western. It’s slickly compelling stuff, if repetitive after a few hours and, invariably, punitive.
Unleash your inner warrior and wreak havoc in this deck-building game's series of exhilarating face-offs, now available for Apple devices
Inspired by a 1950s sci-fi horror movie, Carrion turns you into a malign marauding blob, swallowing scientists whole
Glitches aside, this sequel to Beneath a Steel Sky is another absorbing journey into Union City
Mystery and melancholy combine in this affecting exploration game in which you navigate through a life unravelling
Fire is your friend as you leap through this exhilarating game rescuing prisoners tied to stakes
This captivating game, which immerses players in 1930s Berlin, is an essential reminder of how fascism takes root and grows
Lost Sphear is a more ambitious JRPG than its predecessor, yet it risks abandoning its purpose to return to the genre's simpler days.