If you have ever played games like ‘Dr. Mario’, ‘Tetris’, ‘Bejeweled’, or ‘Candy Crush’ and enjoyed them, then ‘Virus Infinite’ may be a colourful match for you. Virus Infinite was developed and published by Sky World Games and has taken clear inspiration from ‘Dr. Mario’. Like all matching games of

After a long early access, Cantata, by the fledgling studio Afterschool, alongside publisher Modern Wolf, is ready to be deployed. Cantata is a turn-based tactics adventure, or as Afterschool aptly terms it, a “Grand Strategy Game” – which transports players into a world of militia-building, expansion, logistics, and resource management.

Men of War is back with the up-and-coming Men Of War II, developed by Best Way and published by Fulqrum Publishing, and it’s a Real-Time Strategy Game based during World War II. Are you ready to take on the enemies of the Western and Eastern Fronts? When we first load

MKAU has been invited to an early preview of the upcoming game ‘Jumplight Odyssey’, a starship adventure simulator. With early access scheduled to be available on August 21st, I was the fortunate one to go hands-on and tell you all about it. Watching the trailer immediately brought thoughts of classic

Having bounced back and forth between countless publishers and developers since as early as 2004, Jagged Alliance 3 is finally released, with credit going to Publisher, THQ Nordic, and developer, Haemimont Games. As with most games that struggle to land a consistent team able to work together at length to

Kou Shibusawa’s well-known series ‘NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION’ is back again for its sixteenth installment into the historical simulation franchise. With the first being released back in 1983 back on the SEGA Genesis and having shipped over ten million units worldwide, it’s becoming a well-known virtual, turn-based, military strategist game throughout the

‘Homeseek’ is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game created by Traptics and published by The Iterative Collective. In Homeseek, the world has been destroyed by overpopulation, exploitation of the environment, and disregard for natural resources such as water, which is now worth more than gold. It is up to the player

Forever Skies is a first-person, post-apocalyptic survival game set in a future Earth no longer habitable by humans, forcing people to leave the planet or live atop skyscrapers to conduct research. Forever Skies was developed and produced by Far From Home, a Polish game studio newly established in 2020, and

Developed by Rockodile, ‘Death From Above’ is an arcade-style, drone sim set during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Your objective is to take control of your drone and give back the freedom and safety of the Ukrainian people. You are tasked with taking down military personnel and their operations using

Limbic Entertainment and BANDAI NAMCO have teamed up to bring us Park Beyond, a fun-filled rollercoaster theme-park creation simulator. Let your imagination and creative juices free and build your dream theme park, filling it with custom rollercoasters while taking in some beautiful environments and listening to the excited shouts of

To those who are regular readers of my reviews, you will be aware of my admiration for the Aliens franchise. When Aliens: Dark Descent was announced in June 2022 at the Summer Game Fest, I was excited to see what developer, Tindalos Interactive, and publisher, Focus Entertainment had to offer.

Polish developers, Clockwork Pile, and publisher, Retrovibe, have brought the developer’s first game to life, “Shardpunk: Verminfall,” a turn-based tactical RPG with survival and resource management built into the game. You will need to decide everything from battle tactics to which one of your troops is taking the last Medkit.

It’s 1984 and I feel like I’m in the middle of Miami Vice with corrupt police and crime running rampant in Seneca City. Every move you make could be your last as you try and build a Private Secret Agency with Hank. Detective Jim Baylor was falsely imprisoned, but once

Developed by Plantery Gear and Logical Extremes, Voyager is a minimalistic space sim where players take on the role of Voyager; essentially a little space probe. Your task is to bring back the light once more, venturing through and discovering little solar systems, and unlocking levels while relaxing to original

Voidtrain is a new survival crafting game from HyperTrain Digital, and it’s due for release on the 10th of May 2023 on PC. Players can take on the Void World, either solo or with friends in the 4-player co-op experience, taking on the role of engineers that have been thrown

‘Park Beyond’ is an up-and-coming promising theme park simulator and management game by Limbic Entertainment. Due for release 16th of June, 2023, MKAU got to have a hands-on preview of what’s to come and the future looks exciting. You are but a lowly designer, doodling and inventing mechanical feats only

A gruesome game show set in a dystopian cyberpunk world? Count me in! Diving into this game was pretty exciting. I don’t usually take on turn-based games like this, but it definitely caught my attention. Developed by Artificer, Showgunners is turn-based tactical combat with some open exploring and puzzle aspects.

Digging through the trenches and diving through dungeons has never been easier or more accessible! A new and upcoming tactics-based, rogue-lite dungeon crawler, jam-packed with quick-to-complete randomly generated dungeons will be sure to fill any gap between the big releases this year. Desktop Dungeons: Rewind is a remaster of the

The Sims, made by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts, has been a mainstay of simulators since 2000 and continues its long life with the new The Sims 4 expansion, “Growing Together”. The Sims have never shied away from emulating reality, and here they take it even further, exploring significant

Industrial development is humanity’s way forward and there’s an abundance of city-builder games about it, but there aren’t many that focus on nature until Terra Nil. The last thing I expected from the creators of Broforce and a game about jousting with certain appendages was a game about rebuilding ecosystems,

PARANOMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo’ is a horror visual novel developed and published by Square Enix. As soon as we launch into PARANOMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo, we are greeted with a fantastic scene that introduces us to “The Storyteller”. Whilst, in this scene, we’re told about the

‘Battle Ram’ is an indie arcade game where players must fight off waves of enemies and environmental hazards. Battle Ram, developed by Wloop777 & Anatoliy Loginovskikh and published by Khukhrovr, is only available on PC and was released on January 6, 2023. In Battle Ram, the player controls a genetically

Kerbal Space Program has become nothing short of a beloved game over the years. Being able to build your own spaceships, rovers, planes, and much more was a fantastic experience, whether you send them into orbit or out into space to find planets, the possibilities felt endless. Now with a

Spellforce: Conquest of EO is a turn-based strategy game, or, as they’re more commonly referred to, a 4X strategy. Developed by Owned by Gravity, and published by THQ Nordic, Spellforce: Conquest of Eo is only available on PC and released on 4th February 2023. Conquest of Eo is the newest

Developed by Fear of Corn, ‘Interference: Dead Air’ is a psychological thriller set in the ‘80s. After wanting a bit of change in your life with a new job and location, you get a call from a good friend who has managed to find you a new job at her

We’ve already touched on the fact that I’m quite the nerd in podcasts and unboxing videos, and let’s face it, sitting in the school library on my lunch breaks playing Magic: The Gathering with friends back in the early 2000s didn’t exactly help that image. Sure, that kind of school

  Feudal Japan is easily one of the most compelling settings in gaming, and Mahokenshi seeks to take full advantage of it. Created by Game Source Studio and published by Iceberg Interactive, this deck-building meets turn-based strategy game combines some unique and varied elements that weren’t afraid to beat me

Much to the disappointment of Captain Marvel and Blade, everyone’s favourite sixteenth wall-breaking Merc with a Mouth is finally making an appearance in Marvels Midnight Suns, developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K, and when we first meet Deadpool, he’s up to his usual comic book antics. Attempting to

Developed and published by Supercube, The Pioneers Surviving Desolation offers a simple-to-understand, yet challenging survival base-building game. Survival games, in general, are one of my favorite genres. This game is no exception, and even with it still in development and early access, there are some bugs here and there, yet

Have you ever dreamed of being a pilot? Then this is the review for you, and we can all thank Laminar Research, the team who brought the next level of flight simulation to our screens with their latest installment into the X-Plane series. X-Plane 12. The updates in this title