2.5/5 Review

Give an editor a machete and the opportunity to carve out vast chunks of The end is nahual: If I may say so, and you might have a good game. As it stands, this is a fascinating, unruly mess.

The Dark Prophecy feels like the demo for a much larger point-and-click adventure.

If you’re looking for a cheap puzzler that will boost your Xbox Gamerscore and provide a mildly interesting concept using chess pieces, then maybe Chess Brain: Dark Troops is worth considering. 

We can’t get effusive about Catmaze. More than any other game we’ve played this year, it will eject from our memory as soon as we press ‘send’ on the review. 

Castle Walker is 1000 Gamerscore of easy Xbox achievements - with a game attached.

If times are lean, and you’re looking for a free-to-play karting experience for four local players, then Starlit Kart Racing will serve you, and serve you well. For everyone else, this is too flawed, too penny-pinching to really consider. 

eFootball 2022 got lambasted for a terrible launch and it just never seemed to recover. Now though, eFootball 2023 kicks off a new season in the hopes of delivering an experience worth getting involved in. Given how it literally costs nothing, surely eFootball 2023 deserves a second chance to win you over? 

Dyna Bomb 2 is a frustrating experience that feels unfairly difficult. It suffers from some strange development decisions, and thanks to the inflated asking price, just isn’t worth a punt. 

Unless you’re a shoot ’em up completist, there’s very little reason to pick up QUByte Classics: Thunderbolt Collection by PIKO. It feels like they’re getting splinters from dredging the bottom of the shooter barrel.

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? is the wrong question. Are You As Patient as a 5th Grader? is more appropriate.

A game called ‘Droid Trivia’ could and should be capitalising on its theme, but robots are nothing more than dressing.

We doff a cap to Space Escape for taking the endless runner into a new direction, which is more than we’d expect for a lowly 79p.

There may be people who feel that Psikyo shooters are on the simplistic, easy side. To those people, we recommend the bullet-hell of Strikers 1945 III. For everyone else, we’d like to introduce you to the first two games in the series.

Puzzletronics: Digital Infinite is a hard one to recommend, even for the silly low asking price. It's three hours of mindless jigsaw puzzling, aligning tiles in hope of lighting an LED.

There may be a masochist who enjoys the endless running of Running on Magic.