Review - Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence
2025 has been a big year for point and click adventure games - a miniature renaissance of sorts. We've had The Drifter, oozing with John Carpenter influences; the return of detective Kathy Rain in Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer, the brilliant Old Skies, and the nostalgic and spooky Foolish Mortals, just to name a few.
Review - Ghost Town (PSVR2)
Thinking about supernatural mysteries, I remember watching and reading Goosebumps as a kid, and then, growing up watching Ghostbusters and The Shining - stories with the ability to draw you into a world on the periphery of life and death. But there's a limit to how involved you can feel - however good the movie or book.
That's where Ghost Town comes in. You're put in the shoes of a medium, to witness the deathly chill in the air with your own eyes; a spooky artistic immersion that can't be replicated outside of virtual reality without spending millions on physical sets.
Review - The Roottrees are Dead
My new series, Late to the Game, is where I visit past titles of any age that I've missed or interest me. This time, in preparation for my own Game of the Year coverage, I'll be reviewing a puzzle game from earlier this year, The Roottrees are Dead.
Review - Goodnight Universe
Goodnight Universe asks you what you'd do if you were a hyper intelligent baby with super powers. Would you sit and watch your family struggle? Or intervene at the risk of exposing your powers to the world?
Review - The Berlin Apartment
All homes are private places - away from watching eyes - where we forge most of our memories. The Berlin Apartment inverts this notion of privacy by asking the question, what have the walls seen over the last century? Allowing us to embody the past tenants of one apartment and live through their memories.