Citizen Sleeper Review: Deliberative Dice Based Decisions
Citizen Sleeper blends wonderful art, narrative storytelling and meaningfully thematic gameplay in a way that is so confidently designed it’s hard not to be impressed.
Citizen Sleeper blends wonderful art, narrative storytelling and meaningfully thematic gameplay in a way that is so confidently designed it’s hard not to be impressed.
Inspired by board games and boasting an incredibly chill style, Dorfromantik is an excellent entry in the puzzle strategy genre.
Nearly Five years after the initial announcement, Tunic is finally out. Was the wait worth it? Without a shadow of a doubt.
Sifu is every Martial Arts film you’ve ever watched, but now in playable form. Unfortunately actually playing Sifu isn’t quite as pleasant as that might sound.
I’ve got more than a little trepidation about writing a list of 22 Indie Games to Watch in 2022. Because, hands up, I was ambitious about 2021. Too ambitious. Of the 21 games I listed last year, only 13 actually came out. So let’s take those as DEFINITELY coming out in 2022 and that we’re all excited for them. So if you’re here for anything listed here, then go back, all my comments still stand. For everything else, let’s go through 22 Indie Games to Watch in 2022. (And please let’s all pretend they won’t slip to 2023)
I’ve got more than a little trepidation about writing a list of 22 AAA Games to Watch in 2022. Because, hands up, I was ambitious about 2021. Too ambitious. Of the 21 games I listed last year, only 13 actually came out. So let’s take those remaining as definitely coming out in 2022 and that we’re all excited for them. So go back, all my comments still stand. For everything else, let’s go through 22 AAA Games to Watch in 2022. (And please let’s all pretend they won’t slip to 2023)
Game of The Year 2021 was a massive challenge to decide. Especially because 2021 continued 2020’s trend of the biggest budget publishers struggling to adapt to the difficulties of pandemic. But even against that there were hundreds of releases across all genres and scales. More games than anyone could reasonably play. But of those that did come out, and those I got to play, here’s the top ten.
Battlefield 2042 takes all the series components to date and slots them back together in new, bigger, different ways that won’t quite work for every fan of the series.
Unpacking combines artfully simplistic puzzle gameplay with a narrative so confidently delivered that it accomplishes in four hours what some games can’t do with dozens.
Wildermyth is the latest attempt to capture the spontaneity and creativity of tabletop RPGs in video game form. And thanks to a few mechanical tricks, it succeeds pretty well.