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The Guild – Europa 1410 Preview Preview · Jun 10, 2026
Complexity becomes joy in Ashborne Games’ intricate and sprawling management sim.
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Everything else our team has been wrestling with. Early-access impressions, deep-dive features, and reviews you might have missed.
stars Review Gothic 1 Remake Review
A beguiling, yet familiar, journey, Gothic Remake is a confident and capable reworking of a classic.
stars Review Psyvariar 3 Review: A brush with brilliance
Charge bullets, avoid shooting, and chain invincibility? An arcade great that does things differently is back.
stars Review Solarpunk Review
Solarpunk leans heavily on giants in the survival sim genre but can only fashion a weak copy in response.
article Article Don’t Kill Them All – Into The Breach meets Tetris in this chaotic game about keeping your temper along with your loot
Don’t Kill Them All chucks out health bars in favour of rage meters and finds an intriguing new angle for turn-based tactics.
visibility Preview Dragon Shelter Preview
Lacking originality and mechanical depth, Dragon Shelter nonetheless has enough charm and potential to suggest that its finished version might be something…
visibility Preview Medic Pacific War Early Access Impressions
Built on a compelling premise, Medic Pacific War misunderstands both its genre and the theatre of trauma to engineer a uniquely gamified…
visibility Preview The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu Preview
Place your trust in friends even when your sanity may betray you.
007 First Light Review
The Man with the Deluxe Edition Golden Gadget Skins.
Planted! Preview
What this party game lacks in depth it makes up for in copious flying vegetables, but there's hope for more when the full game arrives.
MOLE Review
Mole offers scares aplenty, but are chills alone enough to sustain your journey to the Earth’s core?
Recent verdicts
The reviews our critics have pinned to the cork board in the past 30 days, in score order. Click any row to read the full review.
Charge bullets, avoid shooting, and chain invincibility? An arcade great that does things differently is back.
9/10 02The team behind The Sexy Brutale turns its attention to reinventing the card battler.
8/10 03An incisive, well-written spy fiction that may never shake the Disco Elysium comparisons.
8/10 04Legacy of the Dark Knight is a breezy, charming, and surprisingly empathetic offering in a franchise that is finally starting to grow…
8/10Our critics
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Ben's first experience of gaming was at three years old, sat on his dad's lap playing Revs on a BBC Micro. He went on…
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Nic Reuben is secretly several Skaven in a trench coat that have somehow made a career in freelance writing. A former staff writer for…
Diego Nicolás Argüello is a freelance journalist and critic from Argentina. Video games helped him to learn English, so now he covers them for…
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Award-winning writer and journalist Phil made his start in print media, and has subsequently spent the last 15 years un-learning the compulsion to add…
Khee Hoon Chan is a freelance writer and journalist from the internet, who enjoys investigating the fringes of entertainment, culture and games.
Ben Sledge is a reporter and critic from Liverpool, UK. He likes playing obscure demos and any game that feels like you're reading a…
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