![]() Part Pokémon Snap, part Attenborough sim, this touching tale casts you as the biographer of a dying world. Meditation on mortality … Season: A Letter to the Future. Lewis Packwood PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch, Meta Quest 2 Season: A Letter to the Future ![]() However, the game’s rich vein of black humour means failure is often as rewarding as success. You control the DJ, and must use whatever information you can find to guide callers safely away from the killer. It’s the 1980s, there is a killer on the loose and the only person who can help is a late-night radio DJ. GM PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Killer Frequency It takes the player on a surprisingly epic journey, guiding rookie wrestler Muchacho Man into the big time, and is a surprisingly deep experience, even for non-wrestling fans. Much like the sport itself, WrestleQuest is marvellously over the top, full of wince-inducing body-slams and outrageously brash characters. GM PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Xbox WrestleQuest It’s a timely release, too, with its story about a rogue AI keeping humanity suppressed in their homes while the outside world falls into disrepair. Graeme Mason PC Full Voidįans of dystopian cinema and classic 16-bit games such as Another World and Flashback should lap up Full Void’s gloomy atmosphere and satisfying 2D platform-hopping. It also boasts a wicked sense of humour, cringeworthy golfing puns aside. While the RPG trappings are entertaining, it’s the care which the developer has put into ball physics and level design that shines through. ![]() The lovechild of dungeon-crawling RPGs and mini golf, Ant Workshop’s Dungeon Golf is just as fun as that sounds. DP PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PC Dungeon Golf Wo Long dares ask the question: “what if the Romance of the Three Kingdoms were told by a horrible masochist?” Following on from Team Ninja’s Nioh series, Wo Long strikes out from the confines of the “Souls-like” genre, firmly establishing the Japanese studio as an alternative to FromSoft for people who like their games difficult, digressive and daft. Dom Peppiatt PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty A must-play for anyone that found Blasphemous a little too overbearing. But The Last Faith draws from its source material with a discerning eye, knowing exactly which elements to emulate – and which to discard. You’d think a game that took cues from Bloodborne and Castlevania would be caught in some sort of pastiche hinterland, doomed to pale mimicry in the gothic shadows of the titans looming above it. ST PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PC The Last Faith Packed with knowing character cameos and even a Bakumatsu Don Quixote, Ishin rejigs an eclectic, emotionally charged Yakuza spin-off for the series’ growing western audience. Plenty of brawling … Like a Dragon: Ishin! Photograph: SEGAīuilt with the bones of the 2014 Yakuza game of the same name, Like a Dragon: Ishin! pairs its developer’s irreverent comedy with paraphrased Japanese history lessons and plenty of close-quarters brawling, taking us back to the Edo period. ![]() Sarah Thwaites iOS, Android Like a Dragon: Ishin! Blending silliness with educational merit, Gubbins is bettered by its viral-friendly endgame, where you attempt to create the most absurd postcard possible from your word salad. Gubbins is a moreish mobile word game that extrapolates Scrabble into a chaotic contemporary challenge where you chase high-scores on a malleable board, adapting to a litany of gamechanging linguistic creatures. Nic Reuben PlayStation 5, Xbox, PC Gubbins – It’s a Word Game This wonderfully paced, relaxed but engaging adventure has all the reserved beauty and magic of a Team Ico game. Jusant is a significant departure from Don’t Nod’s previous Life is Strange games, eschewing dialogue and characters for a meditative climb through lost cultures and alien biomes toward a towering peak. BAM PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch, Meta Quest 2 Jusant Find increasingly inventive ways to guide a troop of tiny tin soldiers to their goal, with a narrative that will break your heart as easily as a toy soldier tumbling off a table. Think Lemmings meets a twinkly Victorian toy box, as fantastical as you’d expect from the people behind Fable.
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