The Wand Report
The latest PC game reviews, previews, interviews, and features. Make Gaming Magical
Letter Lost Review Review · Jun 15, 2026
A cosy yet macabre puzzle game about managing a postal office all by your lonesome.
On the desk
Everything else our team has been wrestling with. Early-access impressions, deep-dive features, and reviews you might have missed.
article Article The most exciting new games launching this summer
The ultimate walking simulator, retro PS1 weirdness, Star Wars XCOM, and more. Our picks of the new releases you should be keeping an eye on over the next…
visibility Preview Witchspire Early Access Impressions
This world full of magic is a genre-bending delight, marrying the tensions of a survival adventure with the whimsy of a life…
visibility Preview Fatekeeper Early Access Impressions
Medieval smackdowns in spades.
visibility Preview The Guild – Europa 1410 Preview
Complexity becomes joy in Ashborne Games’ intricate and sprawling management sim.
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.
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.
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 special.
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 grotesque.
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 02An incisive, well-written spy fiction that may never shake the Disco Elysium comparisons.
8/10 03Legacy of the Dark Knight is a breezy, charming, and surprisingly empathetic offering in a franchise that is finally starting to grow…
8/10 04FPS bullet hell combat punctuates exploration of an ailing, stylish and imposing megastructure in this flawed but confident hidden gem.
8/10Our critics
The team of writers behind the verdicts. Independent opinions, no scoring algorithms, no sponsored editorial.
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…
Grace's love of both games and writing has been strong since the 90s. Studying journalism at university and then running a gaming YouTube channel…
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…
Grace is a freelance writer at large and has written for some websites and publications you’ve heard of and others you haven’t. She is…
Khee Hoon Chan is a freelance writer and journalist from the internet, who enjoys investigating the fringes of entertainment, culture and games.
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…
Geoffrey Bunting is a disabled journalist, author, and recovering book designer. Besides The Wand Report, he is featured in The New York Times, The…
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…
Will has been a game journalist, design consultant and industry writer for over 20 years, contributing to the likes of The Guardian, Edge, PC…
Reid McCarter is a writer and editor whose work has appeared at outlets like Wired, Kotaku, The AV Club, GQ, Playboy, The Washington Post,…