Author: Zack Goutzoulas
For Evelyn II Preview: A Beautiful Fantasy World
For Evelyn II: Shards of Creation is part immersive-sim, part action role-playing game. As thief turned warrior Zhen-Rei, you must sneak and fight across the world to take down a coven of witches, gaining new abilities and improving your skills on the way. The short preview I played took me through the prologue and first…
A Warm and Comforting New Puzzler! Squeakross: Home Squeak Home Preview
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home is one part pet simulator, one part puzzle game. After creating your own personal rodent, giving it a dash of colour and a personality to match, you set about populating its initially modest home with a wide variety of furniture and decorum. You unlock these by completing nonogram puzzles, or Squeakross…
The Perfect Mix of Crime and Cocktails: Best Served Cold
Best Served Cold is a murder mystery taking place in Bukovie, a fictional European city, set in the 1920s against the backdrop of prohibition. As the bartender of The Nightcap, the last speakeasy in the city, you are enlisted by ambitious detective Hugo Mertens to help solve a number of murders that always trace their…
Box #341 is a fun, but forgettable puzzle game
Box #341 is a competent puzzle-platformer that’s charming enough, but doesn’t leave much of an impression. You control the titular Box #341, a sentient box with a terrible habit of losing its place in a warehouse. You must guide Box back to its slot while making sure it’s in the correct, upright position so it…
Hell is Middle Management: The Deadly Path Review
Few games have made me as stressed as The Deadly Path. Watching a field of timers ticking down, trying to count how much bone, meat and gold I can gather before incurring my god’s wrath left me feeling exhilarated, tense and, if I managed to see it through, victorious. Owlskip Games’s rogue-like management simulator sees…