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Not every game needs to have waves of tentacled beasts while you desperately reload. Sometimes, you just want to make a cup of tea, cozy into an armchair and play something relaxing. If that’s the case, and you have a spare £3.29 in your wallet, then we would suggest you try Railway Islands - Puzzle. 

Ah Ratalaika Games. We love how they continue to push out new games to the unsuspecting console and PC audience each and every week. This week is no different - it's just that this one is bit of A Frog's Job. 

C.A.R.L. (Computer-Automated Resource Locator) needs your help: this tiny robot is lost within the sprawling maze that is Kent Industries, and must make it out whilst also acquiring Tech Units for his engineer buddy, uncovering some shady secrets regarding Kent Industries along the way…

Experiencing manic depression or bipolar disorder can sometimes feel like trying to get through a door that simply won’t open, and To Leave brings this crushing feeling to the platforming landscape. 

Perhaps the best way to play Toree’s 3D Platformer Collection is chronologically. Imagine it as the scrapbook of a couple of game developers who are inching, game by game, to the one they were made to make: an N64 3D platformer that could sit among the console’s best.

As the LEGO videogames continue to expand on their bread-and-butter platformers – save for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – their new ideas excite us greatly. Following on from the beautiful LEGO Builder’s Journey is the newly announced LEGO Bricktales, coming in 2022.

Those pesky pandas will do almost anything for a bit of bamboo. Who are we to judge though, when it is pretty much the only thing they can eat? And their latest predicament sees them doing just that to get their paws on some bamboo. Find out what in Taqoban, out now on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and PC.

“Hand-drawn” evokes memories of cute cartoon characters with big wide eyes that wouldn’t harm anyone. Soli, the protagonist, is certainly cute. But the gameplay will challenge you deeply and make you rethink how cute anything hand-drawn can be. Find out just how challenging today as Unbound: Worlds Apart is out now on Xbox.

There’s something just utterly satisfying about using shadows in puzzle games (Tandem: A Tale of Shadows is excellent proof), and In My Shadow by Playbae and OverGamez is looking to scratch that itch. 

Coming on like a cross between Lost Vikings and Lemmings, Goroons is a co-op platformer with an emphasis on puzzling. It’s all about getting from A to B, and rearranging the level in-between to get there. And it’s available right now on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.