Reviews

Thunder Lotus Games describes Spiritfarer as a “cozy management game about dying.” At first glance, it may appear antithetical to plant the words “cozy” and “dying” close…

A skeleton wakes in a cave, wades through a pool of milky water, and prises a sword from the hands of a nearby sculpture.…

As you begin Maid of Sker, a first-person survival horror, you’re greeted with a message informing you that the game “has been designed to…

Fight Crab is about fighting crabs. It is simple in its title and premise. It involves being dropped into a ring, as one of…

Fifteen years ago, in Destroy All Humans!, the Earth was invaded. The chief invader was Cryptosporidium-137, better known as Crypto: a small grey alien…

Carrion opens on a glass tank. A blood-red lump lurks inside, twitching, and above it, on the wall, is the biohazard symbol, stamped in queasy…

The Terminal is a higgledy-piggledy, formerly-industrial coffee shop somewhere in Melbourne, Australia. The ground floor has space at the bar to chat, and there…

What makes a role-playing game? Purists would argue that a table is required, along with a sheaf of papers and a clutch of polyhedral…

Little Orpheus, available on Apple Arcade, is the latest release from The Chinese Room, a British studio whose games—often dubbed “walking simulators”—are both loved…

If I were transferred into a robot body, one of the things I would miss most would be salt and vinegar crisps. Specifically, I’m…