Death’s Door is an action-adventure game developed by Acid Nerve and published by Devolver Digital. Earlier this month, it won Best Indie Game at The Game Awards 2021. Initially released exclusively on Windows PC, it is now available on PlayStation, XBox and Nintendo Switch and for the purpose of my review I was playing the PlayStation 5 version. In Death's Door you take on the role of a little tiny crow who starts off with only a few basic attacks. You work for the Reaping C

Heavenly Bodies, developed and published by 2pt Interactive, is an indie simulation-focused puzzle game. It is currently available on Windows PC and PlayStation, and for the purpose of my review I was playing the PlayStation 5 version. Heavenly Bodies initially puts itself across as taking itself quite seriously, however I very quickly just found myself singing “Space Oddity” the whole time as I was simply floating in my tin can. The physics in space would certainly be someth

Pumpkin Jack is a classic style 3D platform puzzle game where you take on the role of anti-hero, Jack the Mythical Pumpkin Lord. Pumpkin Jack was developed by Nicolas Meyssonnier and published by Headup Games. It was originally released on Windows PC, PlayStation, XBox, and Nintendo Switch; however, now finally available on both next-gen consoles just in time for Halloween, I will be covering the PlayStation 5 version. Pumpkin Jack is a spooky platformer where you have to gui

UnMetal is a top-down 2D stealth action adventure game steeped in humour. Developed by Unepic Fran and Published by Versus Evil, it is available on Windows PC, PlayStation, XBox, and Nintendo Switch. For this review, I was playing on Nintendo Switch in handheld mode. You play as Jessie Fox, a civilian who is being interrogated as you relay your story of how you escaped after a crack commando unit threw you in prison for a crime you didn’t commit. You have to move around diffe

KURSK, developed by Jujubee, and published by Forever Entertainment, is a first person adventure based on and inspired by real events where you take on the role of a fictitious spy who boards the Russian submarine K-141 Kursk seeking information and inadvertently gets himself wrapped up in the tragic events that befall the Kursk. For the purpose of my review I was playing the PlayStation 4 version, however it is also available on Windows PC and XBox. In August 2000, the Russi

It's not often I find myself thinking this but The Forgotten City is a game that has an extensive history and lifespan before it even existed as its own stand-alone game. Initially, The Forgotten City, developed by Modern Storyteller and published by Dear Villagers, was a mod released for Skyrim which has had a whopping 3 million downloads and even picked up an award from the Australian Writers Guild in 2016. I've never known a mod to garner so much attention and hold such ac

Seed of Life is a third-person action-adventure puzzler, developed by MadLight Studio and published by Leonardo Interactive. It was released for Windows PC on the 11th of August 2021. On June 16th 2020 there was a demo made available, and it can still be played. For this review I played the full release on normal difficulty. I have not played the demo at all. This review will sometimes focus on the narrative, meaning that some story spoilers are unavoidable. The game begins w

Assume the role of a stunning Falcon and take flight in The Falconeer: Warrior Edition, an aerial dog-fight style game. The Falconeer, developed by Tomas Sala and published by Wired Productions was initially released on the XBox One and PC in the second half of 2020, but is now being released to a wider audience on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch this week. It is being re-released as The Falconeer: Warrior Edition which includes all of the previous DLC t

Lost Ember is developed and published by Mooneye Studios and is a beautiful story-based indie adventure game set with a stunning backdrop of flowing grasslands, beautiful ponds and lakes. You play primarily as a wolf but you quickly discover there's more to it than that. Lost Ember was released in 2019 on Windows PC, PlayStation, XBox and Nintendo Switch. Lost Ember tells the tale of the Yanrana Tribe and what was once a beautiful city. You begin the game as a wolf awakening

If like me you are a fan of games like Super Monkey Ball or Marble Blast Ultra or going even further back to Marble Madness, then you will thoroughly enjoy playing Glyph. Developed and published by Bolverk Games and available to buy already on the Nintendo Switch, with a Windows PC release coming on August 9th, Glyph is a great little marble physics-based game that can get just a little bit addictive if you don't watch out. For this review I played Glyph on the Nintendo Switc

What would you do if you were the last human being on earth? In rays of the Light is a post-apocalyptic adventure-puzzler that, in a short amount of time, will ask some very big questions. The game is developed by Sergey Noskov and published by Sometimes You, and is a remake of their own creation, The Light, which was released back in 2012. In rays of the Light was released on March 17th 2021 and it is currently available on Windows PC, both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, X

This War of Mine is a survival-horror game developed and published by 11 Bit Studios and is available on Windows PC, PlayStation 4, XBox One, Nintendo Switch, as well as on Android and iOS mobile devices. It was initially released in November 2014 on PC with the mobile ports arriving in 2015. An expansion pack titled The Little Ones was released on both the PlayStation 4 and XBox One in 2016 which was followed by This War of Mine: Complete Edition which was released on the Ni

The Survivalists, made by the creators of The Escapists, Team17, is a cute, aesthetically pleasing survival game where you find yourself stranded on a desert island with nothing but a few berries and some pebbles aboard your wrecked raft. Alongside the typical survival aspects such as crafting everything that you need, gathering all the resources to do the crafting and ensuring that your character is well fed and healthy, there is a wealth of other challenges and features tha