Reviewing the indie games everyone else missed
PC I should probably be a bit embarrassed about admitting quite how long it s taken me to complete the first of It Consumes three stages. On its lowest difficulty. But I ve had so much fun not managing it. There are perhaps a few too many games that make their primary feature darkness, but It Consumes [ ]
PC My cursor keys are weeping. They ve taken such a hammering over the last week, as I ve blasted my way through splendid little arcade game Kaz (from Kalinarm, the team that brought us the incredible Linkito). The deceptively simple-sounding concept of moving a character around a small field of tiles with your cursors (or WASD) [ ]
PC, Mac I m in a quandary. I update Buried Treasure far more infrequently than I intend, thanks to so many potential games falling through, an endless supply of crises, and poor time management. But there s a game I ve sunk so many hours into with the absolute certainty I was going to write about it [ ]
PC, Mac, Linux Sometimes I play a game that s so good, and so interestingly good, that I get too afraid to write about it. I ve spent at least twenty hours playing Emuurom, and I suspect it could be a lot more, but have been putting off trying to explain it to you. Not because it, [ ]
PC, Mac, Linux At first glance you d assume that Uncle Lee s Cookbook is a fairly traditional point-and-click adventure. Aesthetically it s clearly designed to look a lot like early- 90s LucasArts, and mechanically you play it with a mouse cursor, inventory and so on. But this five-chapter game is very subtly something else. It s well four fifths of [ ]
PC, Switch, Xbox, PlayStation Imagine if I d brought you here today to tell you that I knew about a massive 2D Zelda-like RPG, packed with towns, dungeons, puzzles and exploration, and it s all completely great, and that no one is even aware it exists. That would be madness, right? And yet, Elementallis. How this is [ ]
PC I m going to tell you a secret. But you have to promise not to tell anyone else, because it s pretty awkward. Promise? OK. (I m kind of done with the whole wholesome games thing.) It s not the concept of a game being wholesome! That s lovely. It s the branding. The idea that there s something inherently hallowed [ ]
PC I was about to type, I lost a week of my life to Aethus, not least given how little paid work I actually got done as a result of having mainlined this fantastic game (never a better time to back Buried Treasure!), but that s far too pejorative. I devoted a week of my life [ ]
PC I m very much a latecomer to the world of Lovecraft. Despite the number of stories, games, authors, movies, and on and on that were directly influenced by the writer s works, I just had a big gap in my knowledge of the source. In recent years I ve begun to explore it much more, inspired by [ ]
PC, Mac At university I was in love with a girl. She did not love me. More embarrassing, she was in a relationship with someone else. A nice guy, but a crappy boyfriend. She and I spent so much time together that others assumed we were a couple. We were inseparable in classes, skived lectures [ ]