Mick Fraser's Reviews
For a game designed by a relatively small indie studio, Strayed Lights is more than competent in terms of gameplay and combat.
While it suffers from some interesting glitches, Dead Island 2 puts some much-needed fun and mayhem back into the zombie apocalypse sandbox.
The Mageseeker is another reason to be excited about where Riot are going to take League of Legends in the future.
I don’t mean to be down on a smaller dev who has made a competent enough indie shooter, but I feel this genre is at a point where if a new entry isn’t doing something unique, then it needs to stand out some other way, and Hyperviolent just doesn’t. If you’re after a few hours spent mashing demon brains and roaming around looking for keys and matching doors, then Hyperviolent has you covered. If you’re after something fresh and new, maybe not so much.
Everspace 2 presents a whole galaxy to unlock and explore, or the ability to just fly around and cause mischief. Either is great fun.
With an interesting progress system and competent FPS-style platforming gameplay, Meet Your Maker is one to keep an eye on going forward.
If you're not put off by an initial slow start and can get through the first few levels of upgrades, Wall World does become pretty enjoyable.
Ravenbound presents an intriguing world that simply doesn't live up to its potential. It's a decent enough adventure, but lacks the nuance needed to stand out.
Anno 1800 Console Edition will eat hours if you let it. One minute you're ruminating over where to place a lumberjack's hut, the next you're connecting a huge network of warehouses.
Limitations of the tech notwithstanding, Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom is a great adventure game filled with iconic characters and absolutely seething with atmosphere.
Dead Cells was always compared to Castlevania, and having the two meet in this way with such reverence on the part of Motion Twin is weirdly heartwarming.
Lightfall does less with Destiny 2 in a narrative sense than previous expansions, but improves the quality of life considerably.
Head into Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty with the right frame of mind and you'll find an enjoyable adventure that refuses to pull its punches.
Blood Bowl 3 is as niche and complex as turn-based tactics games get, it just does it all with Orks and Elves and dwarves with silly beards.
Atomic Heart embraces lunacy, overblown sexuality, and violence at every turn, and feels simultaneously polished and yet painfully unrefined.
It's hardly an original setting or concept, but Company of Heroes 3 makes up for it with sheer charm and playability.
Elderand is an enjoyable, old-fashioned hack 'n' slash adventure that will challenge you without punishing you.
Wild Hearts is a fantastic video game. It has so much flair and personality, and so much of it is designed with fun in mind.
Deliver Us Mars is heavily focused on story and exploration, both of which it does fairly well. It's no thrill-a-minute blockbuster, but fans of the first game will find a lot to like here.
SpellForce: Conquest of Eo strips away a lot of what makes the franchise unique and doesn't replace it with anything exciting.