Recent reviews by JackLyttle

Realworld tables, and no faff.

This game offers a fantastic realisation of the Jurassic World universe in perhaps its most natural form. Frontier have developed a fantastic range of management sims over the years, so it's really a perfect fit. The film series offers perfect opportunities for stalwarts of the gaming genre, such as tech trees, etc, and any disaster, natural or manmade, is going to be better with dinosaurs, right?

A fantastic game that combines the stealthy robot terror of Sir/Madam, You Are Being Hunted with the sense of scale that Signal From Tölva created. Added to this is a heavy dose of weirdness; a kind of mechanical Lovecraft, of absent landscape. I'm not sure yet where the story's headed, but it fills me with dread. So if you like dread...

I have no interest in football, and this game is perfect for that.

Also, being a gamer of a certain age, this title makes me nostalgic for the football games of yesteryear. Not quite sure they ever looked or worked quite like this (round pitch? ♥♥♥♥-erotic subtext?) but the feel is very much the same. I'm annoyingly invested in my team.

Absolutely wonderful game. It's short, but it's as long as it needs to be. The single-player co-op aspect is eased into gently. The art design is solid and contiguous throughout. And it has *that* breathtaking moment - and it's a moment that could only happen in a videogame - that I cannot spoil here.

Some of the loveliest landscapes I've seen in a game - I believe the best depiction of UK rural landscapes I've ever seen. I love games that, rather than tell you a specific, same-every-time story, creates instead a responsive environment and allow the stories to emerge from player interactions. Once you get the basics down, you will find you have stories to tell. And with random, procedurally-generated islands, you can revisit and revisit. And because the game is so open, you can play pretty much however you want to. Tempted to do a "traps and axes" playthrough next.

Right from the first Alpha build it seemed complete. Everything that's subsequently been added has built upon the experience, in both aesthetics and gameplay. They are pretty much done, now. One more mob to add and one more biome, then a balance. Co-op(ish) multiplayer to follow. That should be fun - multiple players all working towards the same goal, but only one can escape...

So yeah. Get some.