Stevivor

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book

7.5/10

It’s been a long time between drinks for ol’ Yoshi, who hasn’t headlined a game since 2019’s Yoshi’s Crafted World on the original Switch. Always one who’s happy to experiment, everyone’s favourite dino-mount has tried many formulas for his games over the years. He’s been illustrated, crafted and woollen, and...

Forza Horizon 6

9.5/10

I am not a car person – I drive a 1999 Mitsubishi Lancer that carries less resale value than the laptop I am writing this review on. Yet, the Forza Horizon series has been an immense source of joy for me since I first gave the Australia-set Forza Horizon 3...

Directive 8020

6/10

Directive 8020 is the latest from Supermassive Games, the studio most famous for interactive horror titles including Until Dawn and The Quarry. This one, however, sits within Bandai Namco’s Dark Pictures anthology, and as such was teased way back in 2022 at the conclusion of The Devil in Me.

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

9.5/10

I’ve long held Corey Koniecska’s 2008 Battlestar Galactica board game as the absolute high watermark for game adaptations. It’s a masterwork of design where every one of its mechanics plays deftly into the tone and theme of the 2004 Syfy show that serves as its basis. Everything is stressful, nobody...

Mixtape

10/10

Mixtape is the latest from The Artful Escape’s Beethoven & Dinosaur, and refines upon an already sublime core. Part walking simulator, part mini-game player, and part John Hughes film, this coming of age title is all heart.

Mixtape

10/10

Mixtape is the latest from The Artful Escape’s Beethoven & Dinosaur, and refines upon an already sublime core. Part walking simulator, part mini-game player, and part John Hughes film, this coming of age title is all heart.

Invincible Vs.

7/10

Invincible VS is a 3v3 fighter from Quarter Up, a Skybound studio made up of a bunch of former developers of 2013’s Killer Instinct. Fans of that fighter likely have their interest piqued by that tidbit alone; fans of Amazon’s Invincible TV series fall into that same camp.

Tides of Tomorrow

9/10

I was late to the party with Road 96, the third title from French studio DigixArt, but holy hell did I love it. I’ve finished it on Xbox, PS4, and PS5, delighting in its narrative, its characters, and its unpredictability. I told Americans to play it before the most recent election...

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

7.5/10

Tomodachi Life was a 3DS game from way back in 2013, and to be frank, the only reason I remember it is because it, accidentally or otherwise, labelled homosexuality as a “bug” rather than a feature. Nintendo, of course, has since apologised for that mistake and has followed through on its...

Pragmata

9/10

Set on Earth’s moon in the not-too-distant future, Pragmata tells the tale of Hugh Williams, one member of a team dispatched to the Cradle, a lunar research station managed by the Delphi Corporation. It quickly becomes apparent that things are bad on the surface of the moon; none of the...

People of Note

9/10

After hours with People of Note, I feel like I owe it an apology as a result of my preview. This, the second game from Iridium, isn’t so much a music-based game than one about music. Instead, it’s better to call this equal parts RPG, narrative adventure, and puzzler —...

Marathon

9/10

In-progress review [10 March 2026]: There’s calm to be found among the tension of those metallic footsteps. The cold, hard sound of a UESC bot patrolling a hallway. It’s a threat, sure. A wrong move and you’ll be knocked before you know what’s happening. As long as they’re there though,...