The Gardens Between is a puzzle video game developed by Australian studio The Voxel Agents, it released in 2018. The game centres on teenagers Arina and Frendt, a girl and boy that live next to each other who have become close friends. You play through abstract levels that are influenced by specific memories based on their time together.
Storm Boy: The Game is based on Colin Thiele’s 1964 children’s book of the same name. Aimed squarely at the younger market, it’s a loving retelling of the story with sharp, pretty visuals, simplistic gameplay and a touching soundtrack.
Tacoma is a narrative-driven adventure set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088. Explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
Observer stars Rutger Hauer as Daniel Lazarski, a detective known as an Observer. As Dan you hack into people’s minds as a method of interrogation and use augmented vision to investigate his surroundings. Observer released in 2017 and recently joined the Xbox Game Pass program.
Hello Neighbour is a survival stealth game that was developed by Dynamic Pixels. The game was released as an alpha build way back in 2015. A rocky development meant that it required the help of a Kickstarter campaign before eventually being published by tinyBuild. In Hello Neighbour, you take control of a boy who has just moved into a new home across from a mysterious stranger. One day, he hears a scream coming from the neighbour’s house and decides to break-in and investigate.
Onrush is an arcade-style vehicular combat game that released in 2018. It was developed by Codemasters and published by Deep Silver for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows. Onrush is a departure from more traditional racing games in that none of the game modes involve reaching the finish line first.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock it’s likely that you would have heard some mention of Hellblade. If so, you likely know of all of the many accolades it has attained. I’ve wanted to play it for some time and I recently had the opportunity, here are my thoughts.
Rime is an adventure puzzle video game developed by Tequila Works, it released in 2017. If there were to be one aspect that surpassed the visuals or story then it would have to be the soundtrack that accompanies them. Genuinely, it is something special. Rime wouldn’t have the special ambience or be as emotive as it is without its spectacular music. Listening to it play as you roam around can only be described as magical.