Tag: Life Simulation

The 50 best games of 2025, ranked

The 50 best games…

It’s been another strange, difficult, and yet somehow also brilliant year for video games in 2025. Triple-A releases have…
What we’ve been playing – old brands revitalised, ageing classics, and cursed character creators

What we’ve been playing…

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve…
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is closing down, but a premium version “with no in-app purchases” is on the way

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp…

Nintendo has confirmed it’s shutting down Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp at the end of the year, shifting focus to…
Closer the Distance review: A bittersweet tale of a town in mourning that’s as sincere as it is refreshing

Closer the Distance review:…

My first rendezvous with Closer the Distance was back during June’s Steam Next Fest, where I spent an hour…
The Garden Path offers a purposefully slow escape

The Garden Path offers…

The Garden Path begins with a message asking you to be careful when foraging plants in the real world…
“Is it okay for video games to be this good?” – developers tell us their favourite games of the year

“Is it okay for…

Before we tell you what we think, and before we reveal what you think, we thought we’d do something…
Heartopia finally gets a release date..

Heartopia finally gets a…

Heartopia developer XD Games has delivered the news anyone who tried out the life sim game had been waiting…
What we’ve been playing – “I would throw the dumbbells at a perfect vertical angle and close my eyes”

What we’ve been playing…

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games…
Amber Isle is exactly the Animal Crossing-like you think it is, and that’s not a bad thing

Amber Isle is exactly…

One of the current Next Fest‘s most pleasant and colorful games – out of the many that are offering…
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector “is a response to Mass Effect 2”, but with one major twist – it’s nothing like Mass Effect 2, and that’s the point

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward…

How much have you changed over the past couple of years? The passage of time continues, constantly, unremittingly. We’re…