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

Ubisoft Blue Byte, well known for titles like Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Siege, and Ubisoft Dusseldorf, who are working on titles like Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Rainbow Six Siege, have teamed up to create this absolute masterpiece of a real-time strategy city building game, and they have

This week has had me feeling something like a cross between being blind as a bat and a Medieval Daredevil, and it’s all thanks to EchoBlade, developed and published by East Asia Soft Limited, Sunset Arctic Games. Originally released on Steam in May 2022, it’s now available on PS4, PS5,

Ultimate Games S.A, Moonlit, and 4Fishing have teamed together to create this fishing simulation where you don’t need to worry about catching fish but focus on catching the biggest and baddest crabs. You have multiple factors that you need to fight against at all times to ensure you have a

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.

F1 23, the official game of the 2023 Formula One Championship, is back and better than ever, and Codemasters have listened to everything we wanted, adding two new circuits, the first one being Qatar’s Losail International Circuit, and the second letting you fly under streetlights on the new Las Vegas

If you have ever wanted to be a radio DJ while a serial killer is running around town, then Killer Frequency is the title for you. Team17 and Fireshine Games have teamed up to develop and produce this absolute gem of a title. You’re a radio DJ back in 1987

When I first reviewed Drill Deal: Oil Tycoon on the Nintendo Switch, the final verdict was unfavorable. One of my closing remarks was to play this game on a different platform if you were interested. That, of course, only left you with one other option, and that was to play

Milestone is back for another year with their latest installment of MotoGP 23, and this year’s title did not disappoint – It’s jam-packed with content. MotoGP 23 includes all the riders from the 2023 season, including the MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3, and MotoE categories of the championships, which takes the rideable

When seeing the trailer for Farworld Pioneers, I was immediately sucked in. The snappy visuals and the pumping soundtrack had me excited for a high-action, two-dimensional, pixel-art shooter, with base-building elements. Unfortunately, the trailer is a red herring. Developer Igloosoft and publisher tinyBuild have instead delivered a game that is

“Fish are friends, not food” is a great quote from a great movie about fish, and yes, you can have clown fish in Aquarist as well, although their jokes aren’t very good. Developed by FreeMind Games, Aquarist is a simulator where you take on the role of an Aquarist and

Developed by The Bearded Ladies, Miasma Chronicles is a turn-based tactical shooter, but it’s been combined with RPG and free-roam mechanics to give a more in-depth gameplay experience. Embark on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of dangerous enemies and plagued by a mysterious force known as the ‘Miasma’.

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

Launching back in 2021 on PC and later in 2022 on the Nintendo Switch, ‘Inscyrption’ is now available on Xbox One including optimization for Series X|S. So here we will go through any notable changes and my opinions on my adventure. You can check out our other fully comprehensive reviews

I’ll open up with an observation my colleague Whippy made. “When you come to think of it, the boundaries with the Minecraft IP are limitless”. The more I thought about this the more I believe it to be true. I have avidly played Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons, and now I

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,

Developed by Gust and produced by Koei Tecmo, Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key is the third installment and the apparent final adventure of the main character, Reisalin Stout, or Ryza as she is affectionately referred to. Now I say this is the last Atelier

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

Visual Concepts and 2K Studios are back for another year of World Wrestling Entertainment, more commonly known as WWE 2K23, and this year is no joke. It’s action-packed with content and the developers have not held back to make this the best title to date. ‘Hustle’, ‘Loyalty’, and ‘Respect’ are