Puzzle-gaming
Edge UK
Roadwarden
This engrossing fantasy RPG may be predominantly text-based, but one of its finest tricks is entirely visual. A large window dominates the centre of the screen, containing flavourful descriptions of the place you’re visiting or the people you’re conversing with, above the available actions or answers.
7 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
Splatoon 3
We open on a clear, blue sky – as vivid a hue as any with which you’ll ink your environment and opponents in Splatoon 3. In the wastes below, an Inkling shelters from the baking sun, shawled in a threadbare cloak, sporting mirrored shades and what appears to be some kind of breathing apparatus.
10 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
STUDIO PROFILE MILESTONE INTERACTIVE
How Italy’s long-running studio moved from arcade racer to sim specialist and back again
7 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
ΤΗΕ MAKING ΟF DEATHLOOP
How the time-loop shooter won over Bethesda, players – and its own developers
10+ min |
December 2022
Edge UK
AN AUDIENCE WITH…LARS WINGEFORS
Embracer’s CEO explains the story behind the company’s explosive expansion
10+ min |
December 2022
Edge UK
ΤΗΕ PRESERVATIONISTS
Digging through the archives with the people striving to safeguard videogame history
10+ min |
December 2022
Edge UK
BLOOD MOON
Striking Distance goes beyond Dead Space with the highly evolved survival horror of The Callisto Protocol
10+ min |
December 2022
Edge UK
DRAGON QUEST TREASURES
Will this spinoff prove to be a hidden gem?
3 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
MARS FIRST LOGISTICS
From Deliver Us Mars to Deliver On Mars
3 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
DELIVER US MARS
A pair of pickaxes raises the stakes in this expanded sequel
3 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
THE DARK PICTURES ANTHOLOGY: THE DEVIL IN ME
Supermassive turns to a notorious serial killer for its season finale
3 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
HUBRIS
A VR space adventure that's reaching for the stars
3 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
ΡΕΝΤΙΜΕΝΤ
Obsidian's medieval mystery is a trove of novel influences
5 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
SYSTEM SHOCK
Rebooting the '90s immersive sim with some hi-tech augmentations
3 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
Tokyo rising
Japan’s long-running expo returns with a renewed, outward-facing urgency
5 min |
December 2022
Edge UK
THE DIOFIELD CHRONICLE
Dioramas meet dire circumstances in this real-time strategy RPG
3 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
FOREVER AGO
A road trip down memory lane
3 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
MOONBREAKER
Subnautica's developer turns its hand to tabletop-inspired tactics
3 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
Small wonders
How the Tiny Teams festival gives solo devs and micro studios their moment in the sun
6 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
Power down
With an energy crisis looming, which games and features are the most costly?
4 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
BROKEN RULES
From broken furniture to a radical reorganisation: how the Gibbon developer has kept on swinging
7 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
DEAD ISLAND 2
After almost a decade, Deep Silver's zombie sequel rises again
5 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
Going for gold
As the Commonwealth Games trials a videogame competition, does it feel like a torchbearer for esports?
8 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
FLOCK
A model of herd composition
3 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
ΤΗΕ ΜΑΚΙΝG OF...NORCO
How South Louisiana's Cancer Alley inspired a dreamlike cyberpunk adventure.
10 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
A flawed sequel says it best when it says nothing at all
7 min |
November 2022
Edge UK
Saints Row
The result feels deeply compromised, falling between the Saints Row of old and the series it became
10+ min |
November 2022
Edge UK
ONE МОRE TURN
Inside the compulsion loop: is the gamification of games good for our health and theirs?
10+ min |
November 2022
Edge UK
PAPER TRAILS
How developers and fan cartographers alike are charting new horizons in videogame maps
10+ min |
November 2022
Edge UK
CRIME OF THE CENTURY
How Creative Assembly evolved from Isolation to getting the gang together for the ultimate (pop-culture heist
10+ min |