Mystery

A screenshot of a giant, pink Barbie-style mansion in The Crush House.

Review

The Crush House review - reality TV has never been this truthful

Shooting your shot.

Aug. 9, 2024 Rachel Watts

16 comments

A screenshot from 7 Days to Die, showing a first-person perspective of a person holding a hunting knife as a bulbous rotten zombie charges towards them. There's a feminine zombie nearby with their arms outstretched as if hungry for brains. Perhaps they are.

Feature

What we've been playing - games that refuse to die, superb interactive fiction, and The End

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Aug. 9, 2024 Robert Purchese

126 comments

News

Indika publisher 11 Bit donates $50k to support Ukrainian children impacted by Kyiv hospital attack

"Let this message resonate with us all and let's do everything we can."

July 12, 2024 Vikki Blake

10 comments

News

LA Noire developers are working on a new 40s thriller called Sowden House

UPDATE: Video Games Deluxe refutes claims, says LA Noire game merely "more of a tech demo".

July 7, 2024 Vikki Blake

27 comments

Miss Mulligatawney's School for Promising Girls artwork showing a stern woman in front of a sprawling old school, where a tiny sihouetted person can be seen crashing out of a tower window and falling to their apparent doom.

News

A Highland Song studio Inkle is teasing 1920s mystery at Miss Mulligatawney's School for Promising Girls

Coming to PC later this year.

June 14, 2024 Matt Wales

5 comments

An illustration of a doorway inside a house, which is open and shows the rooms beyond all with open doorways, one inside another. In the middle of them all is the shape of a boy, who's clearly been opening them.

Feature

What we've been playing - caverns, knowledge and doors

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

June 14, 2024 Eurogamer Staff

132 comments

Feature

Wishlisted | You may be stuck behind a PC terminal, but The Operator is my dream FBI fantasy

"Hello?"

June 12, 2024 Robert Purchese

15 comments

Artwork of Posessor(s) showing multiple colourful animated characters on a black background

News

Hyper Light Drifter developer's next game spearheads Devolver Direct

Plus Dead Cells designer's latest and more!

June 8, 2024 Ed Nightingale

Feature

Blue Prince is a looping mystery about rearranging the layout of a mansion, and it's excitingly good

Roomy.

June 4, 2024 Robert Purchese

8 comments

Indika promo image showing Indika's face, centre, in a black hood, surrounded by laughing elderly nuns with gold-yellow halos

Review

Indika review - a dark, surreal, and devilishly playful drama

Nun's on the run.

May 13, 2024 Matt Wales

38 comments

Feature

No Case Should Remain Unsolved finds truth in distorted memories

Murder she thought.

May 13, 2024 Lottie Lynn

4 comments

Homeworld 3 official screenshot showing a spaceship to the left departing a giant spaceship dock to the right, against a solar orange background

Feature

What to Play This May 2024

Our recurring series curating the month ahead.

May 1, 2024 Chris Tapsell

36 comments

Dungeons of Hinterberg officials creen showing the character overlooking a purple and icy blue frozen mountain world.

Feature

What we've been playing - indie preview special edition!

A few things that caught our eye at GDC, Day of the Devs, and ID@Xbox.

April 5, 2024 Robert Purchese

97 comments

The Crush House key art showing a pastel pink and orange Love Island style reality TV house with pool and partying characters

Preview

The Crush House is a "thirst-person shooter" that holds a mirror to reality TV production

"When you watch reality TV, you experience a lot of the same emotions as watching horror…"

April 5, 2024 Chris Tapsell

18 comments

Ian Higton is wearing a Squirrel Costume and wielding a very sharp syringe as he stands outside the HappyFunland theme park. It is a a gloomy, spooky image but fireworks are exploding above a central castle.

Video

VR Corner | Darkly comic horror game, HappyFunland VR shows promise but it might not be worth the price of admission

It Disney live up to expectations.

March 24, 2024 Ian Higton

6 comments

Cropped in promo image from Among Us' Fungle map showing a crewmate looking at a glowing mushroom in its hands

News

Among Us animated show casts sus stars, including Ashley Johnson and Elijah Wood

Lies!

March 16, 2024 Vikki Blake

3 comments

Montage of images from four games: Animal Well, Star Wars Dark Forces remaster, Harold Halibut, and FF7, behind the number 2024

Feature

The most exciting games of 2024

Year we go.

Jan. 4, 2024 Christian Donlan

128 comments

Video

VR Corner | Assassin's Creed Nexus VR is simply stunning on Quest 3

The apple of my eyes.

Nov. 16, 2023 Ian Higton

14 comments

Video

VR Corner | You'll need nerves (and a stomach) of steel to play this Flat2VR mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent!

Keeping the frights on.

Nov. 12, 2023 Ian Higton

9 comments

A screenshot from The Invincible of a pale orange desert against and ocean blue-green sky with giant pale moon, in 70s sci-fi style.

Feature

What to Play This November

Our recurring series curating the month ahead.

Nov. 1, 2023 Chris Tapsell

47 comments

News

Alan Wake 2's Sam Lake wants to make a "crazy, huge budget, dark gothic fantasy"

"There will be a time when I retire. It's just that… this has all been so engaging."

Oct. 29, 2023 Vikki Blake

9 comments

A screenshot from Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard showing Frog Detective talking into the handset of a red house phone.

News

Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery gets an October release date

On Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch.

Oct. 11, 2023 Matt Wales

5 comments

Lords of the Fallen promotional image showing a bedraggled main character looking out over a burnt orange and brown landscape witha giant five-fingered hand in the far distance jutting out from the horizon

Feature

What to Play This October

Our recurring series curating the month ahead.

Oct. 1, 2023 Chris Tapsell

44 comments

El Paso, Elsewhere screenshot showing the main character slumped in a chair in the corner of a room lit in deep red light with noir-style shadows through the blinds

Feature

What to Play This September

Our recurring series curating the month ahead.

Sept. 1, 2023 Chris Tapsell

17 comments

Artwork showing Frog Detective's detective (a frog) stood atop a low plinth, a magnifying glass raised to one eye. Behind him, the scene is split in three: a night-time tropical island to the left, a dusty desert and cactus to the right, and a mysterious purple location directly behind him.

News

Frog Detective's endearingly silly adventures coming to consoles in three-game Entire Mystery collection

Out later this year.

Aug. 18, 2023 Matt Wales

3 comments