Puzzle-Gaming
Edge UK
Herdling
Much like Fumito Ueda, for its third major release Okomotive has wilfully ignored the old adage about working with children and animals.
4 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
What's in the 'box?
The I Ith will be the first Party Pack with completely new games, although four fall into familiar genres, with something for everyone
2 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
Tales Of The Shire: A Lord Of The Rings Game
Making a game about being a hobbit — inviting friends over for meals, gardening and farming, wandering the woods in search of mushrooms — would seem a natural fit with the proliferation of slice-of-life farming games hanging on the coattails of Stardew Valley. And in some ways, it is. Tales Of The Shire is buoyant and brisk. It has just enough subsystems to tickle the mind, while mostly abstaining from the deep economic systems that have defined the genre of late. But given the game's rich source material, and developer Weta Workshop's hands-on experience with the Lord Of The Rings films, it's a shame it doesn't differentiate itself more from others of its ilk. Like a hobbit, it rarely leaves its comfort zone.
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
The Wandering Village
Typically, city builders find fascination in the way layers of infrastructure depend on and support each other, in such a way that after a few hours playing Tropico or Cities: Skylines, you feel a sense of wonder that there’s water flowing readily from your taps when you pause for a bathroom break. Some of that’s true of The Wandering Village: there’s an inherent stress in juggling the constant and escalating needs of a growing population in an expanding settlement. But where usually the payoff in such games lies in observing a ruthlessly efficient road network or particularly cost-effective piece of sewage management, here it’s about imposing order upon a different kind of chaos not only the manmade kind, but the chaos of symbiosis, eking out existence on the back of a giant living being.
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Donkey Kong Bananza
Everybody knows the smart move when they begin a platform game: turn away from the adventure to check for secrets in the opposite direction. Not so in Donkey Kong Bananza. Placed on its first screen, you’ll instead stop to smash it all to pieces. Straight jabs with the Y button knock dents, then holes, into walls and lumps of gold cascade out, which DK (as folks here call our simian hero) collects. It’s a beautifully feral and gratifying action, placed exactly where you'd expect it on the controller. Yet the same can’t be said of jumping, the platforming fundamental that normally occupies the B button by default. Tapping B here takes you down instead of up, DK pounding at the floor until it gives way. In a stroke, Nintendo thus reconfigures the genre it all but invented, removing the ground beneath our feet.
6 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business
Teyon had a rock-bottom moment with its licensed Rambo game in 2014, which disappointed in part because it was a rail shooter, not the FPS players expected.
2 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
AWAYSIS
What's the story? Brawling glory
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
There’s a phrase you'll get used to seeing in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, aside from the obligatory notification of failure whenever the titular hero meets her demise. It occurs after a successive number of reawakenings, displayed below a flashing red seal: ‘Madness Descends’.
4 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
ICHIGOICHIE
Getting back into the groove of making music games, and staying the course
7 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS
Going all the way back to the beginning for a fresh start
8 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
DISPATCH
Trading the cowl for a telephone headset in a superhero call centre
5 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
The Drifter
Fate could have dealt Mick Carter a kinder hand. An unexpected catastrophe prompts him to abandon what remains of his family and start wandering a dystopian, near-future Australia, as if grief is something he can simply outrun. This muddled attempt at reprieve then stretches into weeks, months, years, with no word of explanation to his wife, Sarah, who's left to grapple with both their son's death and Mick's disappearance. That is, until a message from his sister, Annie, informs him their mother has passed away. Determined not to miss another funeral, Mick hops onto a freight train headed for his home town. But when he's discovered by a belligerent security team, our stowaway dies for the first time. Then he returns and the hallucinations start.
1 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Sweet spot
Magicave hopes its Venn puzzler will introduce a new category of game
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
FROSTHAVEN
Snapshot's boardgame adaptation looks to retain a human touch
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Shadow Labyrinth
Going by the 1980 arcade original, Pac-Man can be just about anything. The pixel graphics are spare to the point of abstraction, with the features of our favourite hungry yellow circle defined only by the art on the side of the arcade cabinet. One piece of Atari box art envisions him as a sort of track runner with a lithe, humanoid body, while 1984's Pac-Land imagines a globular yellow fellow in a feathered cap. Bandai Namco’s baffling Shadow Labyrinth offers the most dramatic reinterpretation yet: as a dime-a-dozen floating companion character.
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Kenji, the lead character in Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, has a hard time accepting that he might have to work with a member of the Black Spider Clan.
4 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Hollow Knight
As the wait for Silksong nears its end, can the original justify all these years of anticipation?
7 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
GOTHIC
A Spanish remake looking to fulfil some German fantasies
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
One of the great delights of this stealth adventure tends to come at the very start of a level. This is the moment when the isometric camera shifts from the position of your tiny, crouching avatars and soars out over the complex muddle of cityscape, parkland and shattered coast that lies before you. There will be paths to cross and patrols to avoid. Maybe you'll spot the odd overhead lightbulb that you can shatter with a well-placed shot from your sling. Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is a compact game, powered by simple, well-tested ideas and made by a team of fewer than 20 developers. Yet these moments reveal that there’s a luxuriousness to it as well.
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Killing Floor 3
The best teammates in Killing Floor 3 know how to get the most from doors. Three games in, this series remains a bit of a gleeful throwback, a wave-based horde affair in which monsters appear sporadically while you move around the warren-like levels. Closing a door as a muddle of enemies approaches allows them to pool in one place. It also means that you can then open the door and be greeted by a tidy arrangement of targets, neatly lined up like Christmas carollers. Any singing, though, will be drowned out by the explosion from a well-placed grenade.
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
AMBROSIA SKY
Decoding mortality, one scrub at a time
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
STAYING ALIVE
Survival games are more popular than ever, but is one of the decade's most influential genres more endangered than it seems?
10+ min |
October 2025
Edge UK
WRECKREATION
This exhaustive construction kit may lead to Burnout
5 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Trigger Happy
Shoot first, ask questions later
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Wheel World
For many of us, the humble bicycle will have represented our first taste of freedom. An opportunity to strike out on our own, unsupervised and untethered from home, across fields, into town, or (depending on where you grew up) around an industrial estate. While Wheel World combines the fantastical trappings of haunted bikes with the lingo and Lycra of modern cycling enthusiasts, more than anything else it plays as a tribute to that youthful feeling: here's a bike, here's some open space — go nuts.
4 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
PARKS AND EXPLORATION
Where do the shrunken environs of Grounded 2 fit into Obsidian’s masterplan?
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
RETRO FUTURISM
How Obsidian Entertainment is studying its past to chart a future among the stars
10+ min |
October 2025
Edge UK
New dawn, long shadows
Esports is stable again, but a new benefactor puts devs, teams and fans in a moral quandary
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
Epic turnaround
2016's Paragon was a flop, so why is Predecessor, a game built upon its foundations, a hit in 2025?
3 min |
October 2025
Edge UK
The Outer Limits
Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment
3 min |