A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Category: Reviews
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Jotun has arrived on Nintendo Switch – so now you can slay beautifully hand-drawn Norse gods on the bus. Praise Odin the All-father!
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This beautiful ‘micro-RPG’ from One Bit Beyond may look cute, but it holds a fearsome challenge. If your character dies, they’re gone for forever – and you lose almost everything.
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Who can resist the allure of becoming a gun-toting, hookshot-wielding space pirate? The Switch port of Flinthook might be the best yet, simply because you can take it with you everywhere.
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Three brothers set off in a boat to find adventure – and every 30-minute playthrough is entirely different. Yep, it’s a charming Choose Your Own Folk-Tale Adventure.
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This golf-like puzzler for PS4, Switch and Vita is entertaining, but it feels out of place on the big screen.
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What if you could go back and change the past? Last Day of June is an intriguing game all about reclaiming a lost love, and fixing what went wrong.
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Dandara is a challenging metroidvania title with a Brazilian twist – and the title character has a very unique way of getting about. No simple walking for this lady.
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The Long Reach is an excellently written game in the vein of point and click adventures of old. But thankfully the days of pixel hunting are long past.
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The Steam hit has crossed over to the Switch – and it’s lost none of it’s charm. Look out, the floor is lava!
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Don’t let the cutesy looks put you off – this game provides an ingenious challenge. And the Switch version has a few very welcome improvements.
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The Trail from Peter Molyneux’s company 22cans has crossed over onto Nintendo Switch. But it’s still a mobile phone game at heart.
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The first EA Original from indie studio Zoink is a magical forest adventure with a heavy emphasis on exploring and discovering things by yourself. And purple.
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A charming storybook adventure that’s sure to set heart strings a-twanging.
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This 2007 PS3 RPG from now-defunct Japanese developer Game Republic really was something special – and it’s a criminal shame that it never got the sequel it deserved.
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A beautiful aquatic adventure freshly released from Early Access – and all the better for years of improvements.
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With a blatant lack of professionalism, I own up to not properly playing a game that was sent to me to review. But I’ve got an excuse, honest.
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Now available in a funky new physical edition, meet the game that took on Super Metroid and, in many ways, made it even better.
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The first SteamWorld game is finally available for Switch – could this be the best version yet?
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Hey look, it’s Zelda on Switch! Sort of.
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A retro-themed roguelite with a large amount of content? Yes, please.
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What happens when you mix a roguelite with a dungeon crawler and stir in some pixel art graphics?
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Super Mario Odyssey has been released to universal acclaim, and it’s not hard to see why. Since Super Mario 64, Mario’s first 3-D adventure, Nintendo has tried various ways to make their 3-D games more accessible, such as dividing levels into small sections as in Super Mario Galaxy and providing clear paths to the end of…
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Can you survive the deadly galaxy of Super Hydorah?
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The follow-up to SteamWorld Dig gets a fancy new Switch edition with all DLC included. But how does it compare to its illustrious forebear?
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Does Outcast – Second Contact breathe new life into a cult classic or was this game better off left in the 90’s?
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My completely opposite thoughts on Woofenstein II
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Grim Dawn or Grim YAWN?
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The closest you’ll come to finding out what it’s like to be a giant robot…for now.
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A Metroidvania all about magnets and creepy towers, with some surprisingly dark storylines.
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Help, my hands are trapped inside a strange mechanical box and I can only get free if you click here now!
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Rive is Two Tribes’ swansong, as the company has sadly decided to cease game development. But is this Switch shoot ’em up a fitting finale?
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Could this be the game to cleanse the palate of the disappointing taste of EVE: Valkyrie, or will it make my space madness even worse?
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