Guardian's Reviews
This follow-up to the acclaimed 2017 cartoon shooter is a gauntlet of boss fights against outlandish flora and fauna with an eye-pleasing nod to classic animation
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
Supreme playability is sidetracked by a new mode designed to let players live the gilded life of an F1 driver – and start paying for it
The combination of frenetic Dynasty Warriors-style combat with Fire Emblem's lovable cast of characters makes this an engaging trip back to the Officers Academy
Please Fix the Road is a gentle, quietly demanding puzzler that will keep you entertained for many hours, especially if you ration out the 150 levels. There’s always something new to experiment with or some cute little visual flourish to enjoy, and watching the last tile slot into place, then seeing the car (or train, or pink llama) whizzing along to its destination never stops being pleasing. In these discombobulating times, here is a little puzzle box that brings order to chaos, if only for a few stolen seconds.
You will probably leave with several favourite characters, having glimpsed their lives beyond that one night of supernatural threats. You’re never left in doubt about what the threat actually is, and that only serves to prove that classic monster and ghost stories still work despite all their tropes, or indeed precisely because of them. The Quarry’s charming writing and cinematic presentation make it an engrossing horror caper – even if this is, paradoxically, a game that’s often at its best when you’re not actively playing it.
Your job is to manage a digital influencing agency with commercial and political clients – and ethical challenges
An entertaining celebration of sleight of hand from the makers of Reigns
The debut puzzler from Spiral Circus delves into the mysteries and fears that lurk in the deep
Moral murkiness helps preserve the tension across Swansong’s duration. There’s always something at stake – your life, the masquerade, your integrity – and that does a lot to infuse some meaning into all the talking and scouring rooms for notes. I doubt that Swansong is set to become a vampire RPG of legend, like 2004’s Bloodlines, but it nonetheless makes vampires scary again.
Gory asymmetrical horror is a demonically fun, well balanced power struggle with boomsticks and bonus Bruce Campbell
A noble environmental message provides the basis for this delightfully uncomplicated adventure, but elements of performance are amiss
This grainy, gore-soaked katana caper slowly morphs into a compelling meditation on vengeance
Presenting a series of impossible choices, this darkly comedic game stretches the player's moral scaffolding to its limits
A decaying cyborg with a human mind struggles to survive aboard a space station in a superbly written, if not exactly original, slice of scuzzy sci-fi
It's been a while since a video game got us up and moving like this, and happily it's as entertaining as ever
Overgrown theme parks feature in this kid-friendly, cinematic romp through a cutesy wasteland
An Olympic swimmer explores the roots of her compulsion to succeed in this dreamlike 'interactive poem'
PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch; Warner BrosJourney through all nine movies in this gag-filled crowd pleaser that even makes The Phantom Menace bearable
A game that wants us to think about the contradictions and complexities of being alive, but not very deeply