Category: Reviews

Shadowdropped last week, the Dawn of History DLC of Legendary Tales has arrived to PC VR and PlayStation VR2 with a slew of new content.Legendary Tales is, first and foremost, a classic dungeon crawler in virtual reality. Its obtuse RPG systems and nonexistent story mean, as our less-than-enthused reviewer wrote, “you have to grit your teeth to enjoy it all.” Fortunately, the reception to feedback from developer Urban Wolf Games means that Dawn of History, its first full-fledged expansion, addresses many of the issues of that first outing. Delivering an incredibly robust variety of builds, friendlier onboarding, and dangerous areas…

Pokémon has persisted for decades for many reasons – cute characters, a popular anime, lucrative trading cards – but chief among them is the game series’ consistently satisfying turn-based battles. Pokémon Champions captures this highly refined system, cuts out much of the grinding necessary to train a viable team, and puts a thrilling competitive battling system in the hands of players around the world. The features around those battles, however, are often confusing and uneven, and despite a solid core, Pokémon Champions fails to reach its full potential. As a longtime observer of the competitive Pokémon scene, I am glad…

The Amusement is a terrific VR narrative adventure centered on roomscale interactions and an intimate family story. The storytelling carries the game through some of its weaker puzzle elements and late-game struggles. I have to start with the movement because that was my primary issue when I played The Amusement’s demo during February 2026’s Steam Next Fest. I played in a very large open room with more space than I needed for the game, and it wasn’t until I watched developer Curvature Games’ excellent developer video that I realized that I created my own issue. The Amusement is meant to…

Minos review: Minos is a roguelike tower defense game that starts strong but rapidly becomes too complicated to meet its demands for precision. Developer: Artificer Publisher: Devolver Digital Release: April 9th, 2026 On: Windows 10 and up From: Steam Price: £15.99 Reviewed on: Intel Core i7-8700, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, Windows 11 The mercenary I’m watching stalk the corridors of the dank labyrinth is right to be scared. He’s already seen the rest of his party impaled by pressure plate-triggered spike traps, crushed by heavy stone doors, and drawn off the path to the minotaur’s lair by a…

The 3DS release of the charming Tomodachi Life exceeded my expectations. The Nintendo-developed product provided a fun sandbox life-sim experience where things often ended up at their silliest and strangest possible outcomes. It felt like a fun one-off experiment for Nintendo, but I always held out hope for a new entry. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream revives the franchise, and though the technology is vastly improved and it doubles down on the weirdness, Nintendo strips any meaningful social element from the game, creating a massive void for what should be one of its most viral games.After the initial setup, the…

Space Control is an episodic, interactive VR space comedy available now on both Quest and Steam, courtesy of developer MoonMonster Studios. As a concept, Space Control is instantly intriguing: a part-game, part-animated series inspired by the irreverent tone of Rick and Morty and Futurama. On paper, that sounds like a fantastic fit for VR. A comedic space adventure where you can physically interact with the world around you while a story unfolds has all the ingredients for something genuinely fresh. Unfortunately, while the premise is good, the actual delivery falls well short of its potential.The FactsWhat is it?: Episodic interactive…

Honestly, probably not. You don’t really sit there explaining what an online casino is anymore. It’s not like it was five or ten years ago, when people needed a walkthrough just to get started. Now, most people already know, even if they’ve never used one. They’ve seen it somewhere. On someone else’s phone, during a match, through ads, whatever it is. It’s already familiar. It Stopped Feeling Like Something “New” That’s the thing. At some point, it just stopped being a new concept. There wasn’t a clear moment when that happened. It just faded out. One day, you’re explaining how…

When a 2D platformer leaps to 3D, the results can vary wildly. Mario stands as the poster boy for what the most successful 2D-to-3D transition looks like, as the plumber flourished in the third dimension. Conversely, Sonic the Hedgehog has often stumbled since making the same jump, and, in my opinion, never truly found his footing. Team Meat admirably tries its hand at reinventing Super Meat Boy in the same way, and the result hovers somewhere between the highs of Mario and the lows of Sonic. Super Meat Boy 3D is a respectable and often fun translation of the series’…

When describing Star Trek, “horror” isn’t usually the first word that comes to mind. The classic sci-fi franchise has long been more concerned with exploring both space and philosophical ideas than with scaring its audience. And yet for longtime fans, some of Trek’s most memorable moments are steeped in horror.The very first episode of The Original Series, “The Man Trap” (1966), featured a monster-of-the-week vampiric shapeshifter that left its victims horribly mutilated. Decades later, The Next Generation delivered all sorts of horror in episodes that delved into cosmic dread, body horror, ghost stories, and many other unsettling concepts.Star Trek: Infection…

Science-fiction themed first-person shooters can feel a dime a dozen. I would bet anyone reading this review has long lost count of the number of times they’ve taken up heavy arms against an alien or robotic threat that outnumbered them multiple-hundreds-to-one. Deadzone: Rogue may look like an unassuming first-person shooter on the surface, but through superb gunplay and excellent utilization of the roguelite formula, I was left kicking myself for not discovering this game when it arrived on other platforms last year.As a man who awakens alone on a space station with no recollection of who he is or why…