Puzzle-Gaming
Edge UK
DISPATCHES NOVEMBER
I got to the end of your Mario Kart World review (E413) and was aghast at the complete absence of any mention of the Knockout Tour mode – in my opinion, the highlight of the latest instalment and a mode I’ve been playing regularly online with friends every Sunday evening since launch.
6 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
EXPELLED!
Inkle's Overboard prequel offered ingenious innovations - but got a raw deal at launch
8 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM
It doesn't take a Village
5 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
Abyssus
Roguelikes and firstperson shooters appear ideally matched, given their shared emphasis on reactivity and thriving in the moment.
4 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance
When it comes to getting his own back, this isn’t Joe Musashi’s first rodeo.
4 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
The Outer Limits
Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment
3 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
Not safe for videogames
Pressured by payment processors, games and their creators still struggle with adult material
7 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE - BLOODLINES 2
The Chinese Room's sequel brings the Phyre
5 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
DOSA DIVAS
From thirsty to hungry
3 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
Cracking the code
How experimental-game specialist Alex Johansson is bringing telegraphy to the masses with Morse
3 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER
Does Riot have what it takes to shake up the fighting game scene with 2XKO?
8 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
Trigger Happy
Shoot first, ask questions later
3 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
Drag X Drive
We could argue all day about which controller is king, but there's nothing quite as elegant and versatile as the mouse.
2 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
MODEL OF VIRTUE
Solving crime in this miniature village may be a bigger job than it seems
1 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
Jack to the future
Having taken a year off from its usual release schedule, party-game maestro Jackbox is back with a bang
3 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
NINJA GAIDEN 4
The ultimate meeting of precision and style
7 min |
November 2025
Edge UK
RALLY POINT
Why EA is razing Battlefield to its foundations in order to build something new
10+ min |
November 2025
Edge UK
Sword Of The Sea
See that mountain? Looks familiar, doesn’t it? And that distant peak with the pillar of divine light shooting up from its summit isn’t the only thing you'll recognise.
4 min |
November 2025
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 |