Blue Prince review – exploring this game may become your new obsession
Rematch packs five-a-side football with sweaty thrills
March 2025
Atomfall review – everybody’s gone to the reactor
‘The odd drunken detective has been sighted at gigs’: how Sea Power won legions of gamer fans
Wanderstop review – a wonderful break from the pressure to win
Two Point Museum review – curate your own fun in this museum management game
February 2025
The Sims at 25: a terrifying facsimile of life, death and the endless cycle of work
Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered review – the good, the bad and the gloomy of Lara Croft releases
High scores
‘Less Star Wars – more Blade Runner’: the making of Mass Effect 2’s Bafta-nominated soundtrack
Wait! The Sims is a lot bleaker than I remember
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review – it’s a hard-knock life in medieval Bohemia
Civilization VII review – your empire strikes back in glorious new detail
January 2025
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review – we’re putting together a crew
Gareth Damian Martin’s dice-driven role-playing game takes you on a space road trip with the flotsam and jetsam of humanity
Bundle of Joy, a game about the frantic monotony of early parenthood
The relentless sudden challenges of caring for his newborn baby reminded developer Nicholas O’Brien of his day job. He explains how turning it all into a game helped him cope
Grunn review – part gardening sim, part survival horror thriller
Pleasant pottering tending the hedgerows turns into an eerie puzzler full of peril, delivering more than the rural idyll it first promises
December 2024
Marvel Rivals review – discomfitingly slick hero shooter makes you worry about gaming’s future
It’s Overwatch with Marvel characters, and it’s well-made and fun to play – but Marvel Rivals is also so devoid of new ideas that it leaves a nasty aftertaste
November 2024
Simon Parkin on games
The Rise of the Golden Idol review – thrilling 70s whodunnit takes sleuthing to the next level
Rise of the Golden Idol review – a gruesome, bizarre and brilliant 1970s detective game
October 2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard review – a good RPG, but an underwhelming Dragon Age game
If Civilization is falling apart, I might as well control it myself
