Games

This page contains a listing of all the games I've written about.

Adventure 

80 Days (2014)

A Vampyre Story (2008)
Agatha Christie- The ABC Murders (2016)
Alien: Isolation (2014)
Alter Ego (2010)
Alone in the Dark (1992)
Alone in the Dark 2 (1993)

Argonus and the Gods of Stone (2019)

Bad Mojo Redux (1996)
Beautiful Desolation (2020)

Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity (1995)

Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)

Beyond a Steel Sky (2021)

Beyond: Two Souls (2013)
BioForge (1995)

Black Mirror (2017)

Black Mirror 3 (2011)

Black Mirror 2 (2009)

The Black Mirror (2003)
Blade Runner (1997)

Blue Force (1993)
Broken Age (2014)
The Bunker (2016)

The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (1995)

Cayne (2017)
The Colonel's Bequest (1989)

Colossal Cave (2023)
Companions of Xanth (1993)
Conquest of Camelot (1989)
Conquest of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood (1991)

Culpa Innata (2007)

Cluck Yegger in the Escape from the Planet Poultroid (2015)
Close to the Sun (2019)
Cradle (2015)

Cruise for a Corpse (1991)
The Curse of Monkey Island
Cyberia (1994)

Dark Seed (1992)
Dark Seed II (1995)
Day of the Tentacle Remastered (2016)

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today (2015)

Deadlight: Directors Cut (2016)

Death Gate (1994)

Deliver Us the Moon (2020)

Discworld Noir (1999)

Discworld (1995)

Discworld 2: Missing Presumed...!? (1996)

Dracula 4+5 (2013)

Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon (2008)

Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (2000)

Dracula: Resurrection (1999)
Dragonsphere (1994)
Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut (2017)

Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick (1997)
Duke Grabowski: Mighty Swashbuckler! (2016)

EcoQuest 1 & 2
Ethan Carter (2015)
Eric the Unready (1993)
Eternam (1992)

Firewatch (2016)
Full Throttle: remastered (2017)

Future Wars: Adventures in Time (1989)
Four Last Things (2017)
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (1993)

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993, 2014)
Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure (2019)
Grim Fandango (2015)
Gold Rush! (1988)

Gold Rush! 2 (2017)
A Golden Wake (2014)

Guard Duty (2019)

Haunted (2011)

Headlander (2016)

Heavens Dawn (1995)

Hi-Res Adventures #0: Mission Asteroid (1980)

Hi-Res Adventures #1: Mystery House (1980)
Hi-Res Adventures #2: The Wizard and the Princess (1980)
Hi-Res Adventures #3: Cranston Manor (1981)
Hi-Res Adventures #4: Ulysses and the Golden Fleece (1981)
Hi-Res Adventures #5: Time Zone (1982)
Hi-Res Adventures #6: The Dark Crystal (1983)

Inca II: Nations of Immortality (1993 )

Inca (1992)

Investigator (2016)

Innocent Until Caught (1993)

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love (2019)

Jazzpunk Directors Cut (2014)
Jill of the Jungle: The Complete Trilogy (1992)
The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça and Pizza Boy (2016)
The Journey Down chapters 1+2 (2010-2014)
The Journey Down: Chapter Three (2017)

Kapia (2022)

Kathy Rain (2016)
King's Quest fan remakes
King's Quest I (1984)
King's Quest II (1985)
Tomb Raider I (1996)
King's Quest III (1986)
King's Quest IV (1988)
King's Quest V
King's Quest VI (1992)
King's Quest VII (1994)
King's Quest: the Mask of Eternity (1998)
King's Quest 1 - Redux

Layers of Fear (2016)
The Last Doors seasons 1 & 2 (2014)
Land's End (2015)

Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice (2020)

Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry (2018)
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail! (1996)
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up Or Slip Out (1993)
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (1991)
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of Pulsating Pectorals! (1989)
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places) (1988)
Land of the Lounge Lizards x 3 (+1) (1987, 1991, 2013, 1981)
Life is Strange (2015)
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel (1992)
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo (1994)

Lost in Time (1992)

Mata Hari (2008)

Martian Memorandum (1991)

Mean Streets (1989)
Mixed Up Fairy Tales (1991)
Mixed Up Mother Goose (1987, 1991)
Moebius: Empire Rising (2014)
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Special Edition
Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock (2015)

The Night of the Rabbit (2013)
Noctropolis (1994)
Normality (1996)

Observer (2017)

Observation (2019)

Order of the Thorne - The King's Challenge (2016)
Overclocked: A History of Violence (2007)
Oxenfree (2016)

Paradigm (2017)

Pepper's Adventures in Time (1993)
Police Quest 1 (1987)
Police Quest II (1988)
Police Quest 3 (1991)
Police Quest 4 (1993)

Prey (2017), Prey: Mooncrash (2018)
The Procession to Calvary (2020)

Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches (2008)

Ripley's Believe it or not!: The Riddle of Master Lu (1995)
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender (1992)
Red Comrades Save the Galaxy: Reloaded (2016)
Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)

Return of the Phantom (1993)

Return to Monkey Island (2022)

Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder (1996)
Secret Files Tunguska (2006)
The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition
Shannara (1995)
Shardlight (2016)

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter (2016)

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments (2014)

Sherlock Holmes VS Jack the Ripper (2009)

Sherlock Holmes versus Arsene Lupin Remastered (2008)

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Remastered (2008)

Simon the Sorcerer (1993)

Simon the Sorcerer 2 (1995)

Simon the Sorcerer 3D (2002)

Simon the Sorcerer 4 (2007)

Simon the Sorcerer 5 (2009)
SOMA (2015)
Space Quest fan games
Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier (1995)
Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation (1993)
Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (1991)
Space Quest 3: The Pirates of Pestulon (1989)
Space Quest 2: Vohaul's Revenge (1987)
Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter (1986)

SpaceVenture (2022 backer release)
Star Trek: Judgement Rites (1993)
Star Trek 25th Anniversary (1992)
Starship Titanic (1998)
Subject 13 (2015)

Syberia (2002)

Syberia 2 (2004)

Syberia 3 (2017)

Syberia: The World Before (2022)

Tales from the Borderlands (2014)
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 (2015)

The Darkside Detective (2017)

The Legend of Kyrandia (1992) 

The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcom's Revenge (1994)

The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate (1993)
The Silent Age (2012)
The Void (2008)
The Talos Principle (2014)
The Orion Conspiracy (1995)

The Pandora Directive (1996)
Telltale's Game of Thrones (2014)
Tender Loving Care (1997)

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure (2014)

Tex Murphy: Overseer (1998)

The Testament of Sherlock Holmes (2012)
Thimbleweed Park (2017)

Trüberbrook (2019)

 

Under a Killing Moon (1993)

Virginia (2016)
What Remains of Edith Finch (2017)
The Witness (2017)

Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth (1994)

Yoomjurjak's Ring (2006)

Zak McKracker and the Alien Mindbenders (1988)

RPG

Age of Conan: Unchained (2008)

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (2001)

Bard's Tale Trilogy Remastered: Bard's Tale 1 (2018)
Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep (2018, part 1)
Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep (2018, part 2)
Blood Knights (2013)

Call of Cthulhu (2018)

The Council (2018)

Conan Exiles (2018)

Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (1993)
Deus Ex (2000)
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (2016)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution DC (2013)
Dishonored (2012)
Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition (2014)

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition (2018)

Divinity: Original Sin 2 (2017)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014)

Gamedec (2021)

The Age of Decadence (2015)
The Elder Scrolls: Arena (1994)
The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall (1996)

The Sinking City (2019)
Times of Lore (1988)

Fallout (1997)
Final Fantasy XIV - A Realm Reborn (2013)

Gamedec (2021)

Greedfall (2019)
Gods: Lands of Infinity Special Edition (2007)

Hard to be a God (2007)

Kigdom Come: Deliverance (2018)

Mass Effect: Andromeda (2017)
Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements (2019)

Mars: War Logs (2013)
Might and Magic: Book One (1986)

Of Orcs and Men (2012)

Planescape: Torment (1999)
Pool of Radiance (1988)

Quest for Glory 5: Dragon Fire (1998)
Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness (1993)
Quest for Glory 3: Wages of War (1992)
Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire (1990)
Quest for Glory 1 (1989)

Risen (2009)

Shout Park: The Fractured but Whole (2017)

Shadowrun Returns (2013), Shadowrun; Dragonfall - Directors Cut (2014)
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues (2018)
superhero League of Hoboken (1994)

Torment: Tides of Numenera
Torment: Tides of Numenera (2017) final conclusion
The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited (2014)
The Outer Worlds (2019)
Ys I & II Chronicles (2009)
Vampyr (2018)
Veil of Darkness (1993)

The Technomancer (2016)
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (2008)
The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings (2011)
The Witcher 3: DLC (2015)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)

 

Ultima Underworld: The stygian Abyss (1992)

FPS

BioShock (2007, 2016)

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005)

Doom (2016)
Duke Nukem Forever (2011)

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (2020)
The Operative: No One Lives Forever (2000)
We Happy Few (2016)

Quake (1996)
Realms of the Haunting (1997)

Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995)

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 (1997)

Thief: Gold (1999)

Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)

Action 

Assassins Creed: Directors Cut (2008)
Batman: Arkham Knight (2015)

Chaos Control (1995)

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010)

Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (2017)

LEGO City: Undercover (2017)

Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust (2009)

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude (2004)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014)

A Plague Tale: Innocence (2019)

Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)
Remember Me (2013)

Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015)
Time Commando (1996)
Tomb Raider (2013)
The Deadly Tower of Monsters (2016)

Space 

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey a review (2021)

Elite Dangerous Odyssey (non-review) (2021)

Elite Dangerous: Byeond (2018)

Elite: Dangerous 2.3
Elite Dangerous: Horizon (2017)
Wing Commander (1990)
Star Citizen 3.36 (alpha)
Star Citizen 3.5 (Alpha)

Retro, non-PC gaming

Introduction to Amstrad CPC 464
007: License to Kill (1989, Amstrad)
Kane (1986, Amstrad)
Zorro (1985, Amstrad)
Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner (Amstrad)
Park Patrol, 10th Frame, Olli and Lissa (Amstrad)
IK +, Way of the Exploding Fist (Amstrad)
Barbarian (1988, Amstrad)

Monty Python's Flying Circus (1990)

Software

The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time (1994)

Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail (1996)

Trump Castle Casino Games