Recent reviews by Zorgulon

An excellent and imaginative urban fantasy, with a strong central mystery to unravel and great companions to get to know. There's also a lot of fun uncovering the mysteries of this world in each separate case you tackle. An original and satisfying take on the point-and-click adventure genre which really shines thanks to the quality of its writing and the strength of its story and clever puzzles.

"Rescue your wife from the Glitchers" it said. But it didn't say I couldn't do that by sucking us both into the vacuum of space after setting off the ship's alarm and rushing to her cell in a bloodbath of panic. So that's what I did.

In Heat Signature you play a series of bounty hunters (they will get shot, get captured or get asphyxiated in space) speeding around the galaxy in a pod to board spaceships and complete a series of missions. Thefts, kidnappings, rescues, assassinations, hijackings - no job too big or too foolhardy. Armed, perhaps, with a teleporter that only transports you for two seconds and a wrench. Or a grenade launcher that hacks sentry turrets and a shotgun.

It's up to you to figure out how, and then, how the hell to escape with your life and target intact. It's a heap of fun.

Analogue: A Hate Story was good, but in exploring the lead-up to the dystopia, Hate Plus excels in carving out a compelling sci-fi that is nevertheless told in very human voices.

A huge, dark and unoccupied house is the unnerving setting for an intimate exploration of your fictional family's past year, and even their distant past. The action of carefully exploring every recess of the house and inspecting every potential clue is compelling in a detective-story kind of way, as you gradually learn what's happened in the lives of your family since you've been abroad.

The main plotline of your absent sister unfolds in audiodiaries as you find key items, and its story of everyday teenaged drama is remarkably moving, in no small part due to the gradual way you uncover aspects of her personality and childhood.

But aside from the main mystery, there are tidbits of information to be gleaned about all the members of your family. The true success of this game is the remarkable depth surrounding the main storyline, not explicitly delivered to you, but there to find for yourself. The story that these secrets tell, that you can play the game through without ever finding, is very much worth the effort.

An engrossing, emotionally arresting, and most of all rewarding game, that will keep you thinking about it long after you finish.

A truly brilliant game, with great characters, which really does the whole meaninful-choice thing well. Plus the zombies are actually really freaking scary.

An inventive and fun puzzle game with a neat and original idea, leaping through windos like an idiot and lots of sax on the soundtrack. Very good indeed.

Pretty good, in that old-fashioned "Oh God why is the screen full of me exploding?!" kind of way.

A charmingly inventive puzzle game that has you synthesising chemicals from raw materials by designing circuits. It starts of simply enough, but soon you're having to make individual reactors and connect them in one production line, and sure enough, everything gets confusing.

But each level, no matter how complex, is just so satisfying to beat. I can't think of another puzzle game that matches the feeling you get when your intricate little circuits join up to produce the final result.

It's around 6.02x10^23 times more fun than actual Chemistry.

A consistently amusing, over-the-top RTS with fun units, nice sea combat and B-movie humour. If you like grinning death-zeppellins, armoured war bears, giant samurai robots and shrink-ray helicopters, then this is for you. And tesla coils, of course.

I'm not sure if it quite bests Red Alert 2 (particulalry with the Yuri's Revenge psychic brilliance), but it bloody well tries its hardest. Combine that with meaningfully different factions (in terms of construction and units), and you've got a blast of a game.

Civ V has had mixed reviews, but personally I would say it is a great new edition.

A lot has changed for the better from Civ IV, the most obvious being the new, more tactical fighting, the clean new interface and the fully realised historic leaders.

It's not quite there yet, though, with the AI still not mastering combat, and the multiplayer is skeletal, with no hotseat, animations or DLC usable.