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Welcome to Elderfield: you grow corn, pumpkins, teeth and eyeballs
A farming game drawn like a horror manga, where you marry an odd villager and pull up the tentacles growing in the field.
Alexandrosse
9 min
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Reviews
PC, PS5 and Xbox game reviews in 2025-2026: complete and honest critiques, no inflated scores. We play to the end and tell you everything.
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Between Adventures IDLE: the demo was better, and the players all say so
Eleven skills, a talent tree, no microtransactions, and a progression pace the full release slowed down sharply.
Alexandrosse
8 min
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Folklands: three brothers and a friend ship their 1.0 after four years, with five ways to win
A settlement builder in the lineage of The Settlers and Caesar, finally adding victory conditions and a global market.
Alexandrosse
9 min
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Planet Killer: every shot carves a crater that stays, and the planet shoots back
A destruction roguelite where worlds are simulated pixel by pixel. You bombard, matter collapses, and nothing knits back together.
Alexandrosse
7 min
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Valheim leaves early access after four and a half years, and we cannot wait to see what the Deep North is really worth
459,000 reviews, 94 per cent positive, and one last biome finally arriving. Version 1.0 is here, and it is the one we were waiting for.
Alexandrosse
12 min
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Warlord: Awaji: a Japanese island rebuilt from real terrain data, and an army you command in first person
Neither Total War nor an action game: you give orders from inside the general's body, and charge with your own samurai.
Alexandrosse
10 min
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Acceptable Losses: you do not go over the top, you sign the paper ordering it
Twenty days to survive, incident reports to read at night, and soldiers with a name and a birthplace. Five euros fifty.
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8 min
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Alchemy Factory: Factorio's grammar applied to potions, and permission to build upwards
Conveyors, pipes and stills across several floors, a shop to stock, and 89 per cent of players convinced in the first week.
Alexandrosse
9 min
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Bus Simulator 27: the finest fleet in the series, and traffic that rear-ends you at every stop
45 licensed buses, coaches for the first time, a gorgeous region. And a technical launch that spoils a good part of the pleasure.
Alexandrosse
12 min