I stand by my belief that My Name is Mayo is a brilliant game. What most saw as a “boring” clicker game or something purely made to appease trophy hunters, I saw as a sublime work of Dadaist anti-art—a game that set out to pick apart the seams of what …
Last year’s release of Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection was a lovely surprise: the first Western release of a niche, decade-old game that’s aged surprisingly well. That was actually the second game in the Zwei series, so it makes sense that XSEED would want to localise the first one as well. …
Dragon Quest Builders was one of my favourite games of 2016. What could have been a cynical attempt to cash in on the block-building craze brought about by Minecraft instead delivered the best version of that formula. What could have been a tired spin-off instead paid homage to one …
0°N 0°W (pronounced “zero north, zero west”) is a tricky game to describe. It doesn’t follow traditional game design structures at all; if you had to group it within a genre, “walking simulator” would probably be the closest you could get, but even that doesn’t really capture the essence of …
If there was ever a game that didn’t need to be remade, it’s Secret of Mana. The original is just as beautiful today as it was in 1993; pixel art doesn’t age like 3D models so, especially pixel art of Secret of Mana‘s quality. The original game still plays very …
The Longest Five Minutes looks like your typical JRPG, only it starts at the final boss. Our party has travelled the world, fought a great many monsters, made friends, helped people, and now they’re finally ready to take on the Demon King. And then, just as the battle starts, …
Few games carry the legacy that Space Invaders does. It’s easily one of the most influential games ever made, being almost single-handedly responsible for the shoot ’em up genre and arcade leaderboards. Almost anyone who was alive in the golden era of arcade games will have some memory of playing …
It feels like arcade-style racing games have somewhat fallen to the wayside lately, but fans of those delightfully unrealistic takes on motorsport have a couple of new things to look forward to this year: a remaster of the critically-acclaimed Burnout Paradise by Criterion, and Codemasters’ Onrush. Originally released in 2009, Burnout Paradise brought …
Damsel, from Australian indie outfit Screwtape Studios, is a simple game in concept: playing as the eponymous Damsel (who is anything but in distress), you run around short, sharp platformer levels shooting vampires with your trusty shotgun. That’s pretty much the entirety of the game, but it works wonders; Damsel …
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This competition is now closed. We’ve got a copy of Shadow of the Colossus on PlayStation 4 to give away, along with a colossus keyring! Here at Shindig, we loved the PlayStation 4 remake of Shadow of the Colossus, with its reworked visuals making the stunning setting even more awe-inspiring and the story …