Simon Parkin


150 games reviewed
81.4 average score
80 median score
66.4% of games recommended
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Jun 8, 2024

A shimmering subterranean world reveals itself bit by bit to you, an amorphous blob, in this enchanting, intricate game

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The dialogue is warm and chatty, and while the storyline and voice-acting have the unsophisticated quality of a Saturday morning cartoon, this only compounds its evocative PlayStation-era appeal. Murayama, who fell ill during the final stages of the game’s development, did not live to see its release, dying in February this year, aged 55. Eiyuden Chronicle stands as a monument to his singular design sensibilities, and a testament to the power of a determined community, both within the game’s fiction, and by its very existence.

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Dec 2, 2023

This stylish if undemanding instalment has some nice touches, but its saccharine dialogue will appeal to only the most committed Persona fans

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Sep 6, 2023

Bethesda's long-awaited space epic is a vast interstellar canvas full of glorious sights to see and intriguing threads to pull – if you can keep patience with its fussy systems

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Sep 2, 2023

]A sushi waiter is on a mission to bring exotic fish to the table in this stylish, satisfying game that delivers a vital message on sustainability

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Aug 12, 2023

Cédric Babouche's exquisite landscapes evoke the lost land of childhood as a woman in her 30s explores her late grandmother's home

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Apr 1, 2023

You solve puzzles, then create the songs, in this tactile puzzle game spanning genres and instruments, from Ethiopian jazz to krautrock

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Feb 4, 2023

This music-centred adventure pits a teenage boy against robotic assassins in a colourful title for gamers of all talents.

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Dec 3, 2022

Plants can cure or kill in this atmospheric puzzle game.

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A treasure inspires murder, and your job as detective is to piece together the crime in this addictive 18th-century whodunnit

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Recommended - Saturnalia
Oct 27, 2022

A pretty Sardinian village merges with all kinds of hellish influence in this nightmarish, claustrophic horror from arthouse developer Santa Ragione.

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Oct 8, 2022

This award-winning single-person adventure, set in a run-down refinery town, is full of compelling mysteries

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Jul 2, 2022

Timing is all as you wake from the dead and race towards a heavenly finish line, slaying demons en route, in this chaotic yet ingenious anime-inspired game

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Jun 5, 2022

Your job is to manage a digital influencing agency with commercial and political clients – and ethical challenges

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May 6, 2022

Presenting a series of impossible choices, this darkly comedic game stretches the player's moral scaffolding to its limits

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Apr 9, 2022

An Olympic swimmer explores the roots of her compulsion to succeed in this dreamlike 'interactive poem'

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Mar 12, 2022

With sumptuous attention to detail, the series' 25th anniversary edition is its most reverent and irresistible yet.

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Feb 23, 2022

This is a massive world, astonishingly rendered and seemingly limitless in its creative diversity

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Jan 8, 2022

The quick, free online word-guessing game designed as a present for one is proving a daily gift for all.

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Dec 11, 2021

Soar across alien vistas powered only by kinetic energy in this interplanetary search for the mysterious, life-giving monolith

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