Richard Walker's Reviews
In Little Rocket Lab, you return to the place where you grew up, to live with your aunty, after your mother's death. It's an oddly sombre s...
Murder is afoot in Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile, the latest adaptation of the celebrated crime author's mysteries from developer Microids ...
King of Meat is the name given to a brutal game show, in which contestants gear up to hack hordes of hapless skeletons and other monsters to bits. Int...
Ever since I first played Vampire Survivors three years ago, I've been bitten by the survivors-like/auto shooter/reverse shmup/whatever-the-hell...
Since Sonic Drift came to the Game Gear, in 1994, Sonic the Hedgehog has been zipping about the place in a vehicle of some sort, racing with his pals...
As another season of the beautiful game gets underway, so too does another season of EA Sports' FC franchise. FC 26 is the third iteration of the ...
Playing Borderlands 4 can be a bit of a rollercoaster. Often, it's a shot of unadulterated chaos: a gleefully gory cavalcade of bullets and bloo...
Karma: The Dark World is a psychological horror game that counts the works of late director David Lynch among its influences. So much so that one sequ...
This year's NBA 2K opens with your MyPlayer character squaring up to cover athlete Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. He chooses a dream team comprising S...
It goes without saying that all of the best driving games have lovely buttery handling. The kind that makes you want to keep coming back for more, sim...
Hell is Us is a third-person action game built around the concept of "Player-Plattering," according to developer Rogue Factor. The idea is that yo...
In Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, protagonist Joe Musashi speaks only in monosyllabic grunts. You could see it as a mark of disdain for all the years SEG...
Sold as a slave by his father to toil in a sulphur mine, Mafia: The Old Country's protagonist, Enzo Favara, doesn't have the most glamorous...
Viewfinder's puzzle conceit is an ingenious one. It revolves around using photographs, paintings, sketches, posters, and so on, which can be held...
I have a soft spot, like a big glowing orange weak point, for arcade-era shoot 'em ups. Not that I'm much good at them, mind. There's j...
Killing Floor 3 is set seventy years after the events of Killing Floor 2. That might mean something, were the story a compelling reason to play the l...
RoboCop: Rogue City defied expectations by managing to be a recent movie adaptation that wasn't a big old pile of stinky poo. Developer Teyon had...
For my money, the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series peaked with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 in 2001. It's the one game I played to death on ...
Roguelikes. I've never been particularly keen on them, and few games have managed to change my mind. Hades and Dead Cells I enjoyed, but I'...
French developer Sloclap cut its teeth on martial arts games, with both Absolver and Sifu offering intricate fighting systems to master. From kung f...