Call them ‘anomaly games’ or ‘3D spot the difference games’, whatever you want, gameplay is the same regardless. Whereas The Exit 8 was a high point, managing to create dread though subtly, Project 13 takes a blunter approach resulting in a drab and uninspired experience.
Still Wakes The Deep: Siren’s Rest sees players exploring the wreckage of the Beria D, over a decade after it sunk in the North Sea. A chance to get answers and find closure, but sometimes it’s better to let the dead lie.
In the vein of the Aery games, Bumblebee – Search for Happiness is a 3D flight exploration game developed and published by EpiXR Games. Where the simple goal is to control a bee as it seeks a new home.
Once Again wants to appear deep, and from afar, it does look a bit fathomless, but once you jump in it’s surprisingly shallow.
A story-driven game with light exploration elements and light puzzle solving, To the Moon comes from developer Freebird Games and tells an emotional, realistic, and relatable tale.
You may never have played Powerslave / Exhumed back in the day, but there’s no excuse now. It’s one of the best FPS games ever made, and this remaster showcases that, and so much more, in all its vibrant glory.
Developed by Compulsion Games and published by Xbox Game Studios, the first word that comes to mind when trying to describe South of Midnight is ‘fantastical’. Not just because of its story, but because of its characters, world, and gameplay elements.
The British equivalent of Fallout, albeit on a smaller and less refined scale, Atomfall is an ambitious first-person survival adventure game developed and published by Rebellion. One that uses the real-life 1957 Windscale fire to tell an alternate history story set in the Lake District, Cumbria area of the UK.