Game of the Week

Tales of Kenzera screenshot showing main character looking out at giant storm bird in the sky

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Supporters | Game of the Week: exploring the other things that make a Metroidvania great

Door dash.

26 Apr 2024 Christian Donlan

7 comments

A bedraggled man in a baseball cap sits behind the steering wheel of a car in Strange Scaffold.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Life Eater and why games need their own Moviedrome

And go and watch Videodrome.

19 Apr 2024 Christian Donlan

A picnic is set up in the grounds of Botany Manor

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Botany Manor and the puzzles all around us

Blooming.

12 Apr 2024 Christian Donlan

Emma's Minecraft character stands at the beginning of a dramatic bridge leading to a gated land.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Minecraft and pain-free construction

If you build it...

5 Apr 2024 Christian Donlan

1 comment

A witch stands in front of a glowing portal conjured from standing stones in Timemelters.

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Supporters | Game of the week: Sometimes the best thing is when you give the game away

Echoes.

29 Mar 2024 Christian Donlan

Jeff Minter wearing a jumper and talking to the camera in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story.

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Supporters | Game of the week: Getting to know the author in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

Gimme the works.

15 Mar 2024 Christian Donlan

An image from the extended intro sequence of Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, showing the character Snufkin lying back with his legs crossed as he fishes in a frozen river, and his tent stands on snowy ground nearby.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Snufkin's adventures in Moonminvalley show how finely judged a licensed game can be

Watching the clouds go by.

8 Mar 2024 Christian Donlan

dark forces remaster screenshot in original graphics mode showing red fog in a mining level

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Star Wars: Dark Forces and the challenge of remasters

Stolen plans.

1 Mar 2024 Christian Donlan

Helldivers 2 screenshot showing The player-character stands facing a large fireball from an Eagle Rocket Pod drop.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Helldivers 2 is a reminder to always bet on Double-A

The right kind of bugs.

16 Feb 2024 Christian Donlan

14 comments

A screen from Hauntii showing a monochrome landscape with craggy rocks and some strange machinery. The whole thing has the hand-drawn style of a great children's book.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Hauntii is a ghostly game that never runs out of ideas

Boo.

9 Feb 2024 Christian Donlan

1 comment

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and true immersion in a game world

Get in.

2 Feb 2024 Christian Donlan

Tekken Review 9 Lewis Winning - Tekken 8 screenshot of Hwoarang winning an online match by knocking out his opponent Kuma

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Tekken and the pleasures of learning

1-up.

26 Jan 2024 Christian Donlan

7 comments

Ashley and the DAS controller, a handheld device, in this screen from Another Code: Recollection

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Another Code and the pleasure of in-game gadgets

DAS entertainment.

19 Jan 2024 Christian Donlan

A hero shot of the hero of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, floating in the air while backlit by a block of light.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Prince of Persia and the question of memory tax

Where was I?

12 Jan 2024 Christian Donlan

11 comments

A trio of scary looking cult members in this screen from Bahnsen Knights. Two of them wear clothes with crosses on. Text reads: You Look at the Bahnsen Knights around you and you can't help but wonder...

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Bahnsen Knights and the ideal series

Brrrm with a view.

15 Dec 2023 Christian Donlan

A Highland Song screenshot showing two twinning peaks at golden hour

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Supporters | Game of the Week: A Highland Song is the right kind of slog

Brambles.

8 Dec 2023 Christian Donlan

A section from the cover of Consider Phlebas, by Iain Banks, showing a spacecraft approaching the bright surface of a ring planet.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: the Banksian thrills of Asteroids

Complicity?

1 Dec 2023 Christian Donlan

A snakebird navigates the jungle in this screen from Snakebird Complete, headed for a portal. Spikes must be navigated first.

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Supporters | Game of the week: Snakebird Complete offers a much needed burst of colour

Grey lagoons

24 Nov 2023 Christian Donlan

Official FM24 screenshot of the in-match engine showing a team scoring a goal in front of a blue-and-white coloured crowd.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Football Manager, realism, and the need to leave some gaps

Pass into space.

3 Nov 2023 Chris Tapsell

In this stylised illustration of Solid Snake from the MGS Digital Graphic Novel, Snake says: "Almost too easy, but I've got a feeling things are about to get trickier." Snake wears a band around his head and snow blows across his face.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: celebrating the ragged energy of the MGS Digital Graphic Novels

Unputdownable.

27 Oct 2023 Christian Donlan

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Supporters | Game of the Week: The Wonderful influence of Super Mario 3

It's-a him!

20 Oct 2023 Christian Donlan

8 comments

Assassin's Creed Mirage. Basim stalks the streets in a hood.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Assassin's Creed Mirage is another great game about climbing

Onwards and upwardsish.

6 Oct 2023 Christian Donlan

1 comment

A screenshot of the game Cocoon, showing a largely dark scene that's illuminated in the middle by a glowing green orb of some kind. A little character with insect wings stands nearby.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: The impossible becomes the possible in Cocoon

Made fierce with dark keeping.

29 Sep 2023 Christian Donlan