Richard Walker's Reviews
Call of the Elder Gods is a sequel to 2020's Call of the Sea, and where in that game you played as Norah Everhart, on a search for her missing husb...
Despite the rise of digital downloads, vinyl records (and other physical media) have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years. Wax Heads, a story-driven ...
It seems that survivors-like games are fast becoming de rigueur of late, what with Vampire Survivors coining the genre a few years ago. TerraTech Le...
Recently, we've seen the Artemis II mission successfully blast off, have a quick look at the dark side of the Moon, then safely return to Earth. ...
Kiln is rather special. When I hear that a game is online-only, I'm normally turned off, and, let's be honest, it's not really the sort...
Tides of Tomorrow is a story for our times, opening with you awakening in a sea of plastic waste, drowning in bottles, tubs, and other discarded detri...
You might be happy to know that there are no vampires in Vampire Crawlers. You've got to hand it to developer poncle for committing to a bit, an...
What lurks deep in the ocean? Really deep, past all the weird fish and that? Should you believe the flights of fancy conjured by author H.P. Lovecraft...
Mice like cheese. This is something you're frequently reminded of throughout Mouse: P.I. For Hire, a game laden with delicious cheese puns, and ...
It's been more than eleven years since we first met Max Caulfield and her edgy blue-haired pal Chloe, in the first Life is Strange. And it appea...
For the first few hours of Crimson Desert, I spent much of my time as Kliff, a Greymane warrior rescued from an untimely death by supernatural forces...
Absolum is the work of developer Guard Crush Games, one of the studios behind Streets of Rage 4. Like that game, Absolum is a side-scrolling brawler...
Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor is an odd thing. Built on developer Dovetail Games' Train Sim World engine, it's a game that mak...
Your introduction to Marathon gives little indication of the punishing journey that lays ahead of you, venturing into hostile otherworldly environmen...
Bearing witness to the recent beat 'em up resurgence has been an unbridled joy. It's brought us a glut of fantastic retro brawlers, from St...
Not all spin-offs are a success. See Mortal Kombat: Special Forces or Umbrella Corps for proof. The Monster Hunter Stories series, the first two in...
For several years now, the WWE 2K series has been churning out reliably good wrestling games, developer Visual Concepts honing its mechanics and syst...
Released in 2023, Planet of Lana is a cinematic side-scrolling puzzle platformer. Planet of Lana 2: Children of the Leaf is, of course, the sequel, ...
For Resident Evil Requiem, it feels like Capcom is hedging its bets. Do you want to play from a first-person or third-person perspective? It's u...
Styx is a little goblin fella. He likes to sneak around with his dagger primed, ready to open the jugular of anyone who gets in his way. He's gre...