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Adventure games

July 2023

  • The magic of photography … a screenshot from Viewfinder.

    Viewfinder review – the magic of stepping into a picture

  • Bomb Rush Cyberpunk

    Summer games previews
    Bomb Rush Cyberfunk: streetwise graffiti gangs paint the city wild

  • Oxenfree II: Lost Signals

    Oxenfree II: Lost Signals review – leisurely island adventure charms again

  • Diablo IV.

    Simon Parkin on games
    Diablo IV review – spellbinding crusade against the forces of evil

June 2023

  • Pursue your own experience and contribute to the universe … Starfield.

    ‘The more you give it, the more it’s gonna give back’: Bethesda’s Starfield explored

    Be warned: you will be sucked in to the cosmic new worlds, its ‘Nasa punk’ aesthetic and the rich narrative details Bethesda always adds
  • Clockwise from top left: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, A Space for the Unbound and Street Fighter 6.

    Best culture of 2023 so far
    The best games of 2023 so far

    Zelda opens up an endless world of possibility, Street Fighter delivers another KO and Star Wars finally gets the game it deserves. We round up the top releases of the past six months
  • GLaDOS from Portal, gaming's most famous evil AI

    Future shockers: 10 great games about rogue AIs

    Right now artificial intelligence is too busy painting and giving factually spurious answers to basic questions to pose much of a threat to humanity, but in video games, AIs have gone further

May 2023

  • STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor

    Simon Parkin on games
    Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review – a blockbuster with maverick energy

    The influence of Hidetaka Miyazaki saturates the rhythms of combat, character acrobatics and sweeping vistas of the finest Star Wars game in years

April 2023

  • Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

    Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review – the best Star Wars game in 20 years

    Respawn Entertainment’s sequel is a huge improvement over Jedi: Fallen Order, and a virtual blockbuster without compromise

March 2023

  • Sons of the Forest screenshot.

    What is Sons of the Forest, the cannibal survival game that sold 2m copies in a day?

  • Birth game by Madison Karrh

    Simon Parkin on games
    Birth review – make your soulmate from spare bones and organs

February 2023

  • Hi-Fi Rush screenshot

    Simon Parkin on games
    Hi-Fi Rush review – a brawler set to the beat of a drum

    This music-centred adventure pits a teenage boy against robotic assassins in a colourful title for gamers of all talents

January 2023

  • Season.

    Season review – atmospheric road trip game with a muddled message

  • A Space for the Unbound.

    A Space for the Unbound review – Indonesian school adventure has a fantastical twist

December 2022

  • From left … Thirsty suitors, Diablo IV and Starfield.

    2023 culture preview
    Street Fighter returns, Link is back and vampires run amok: 15 video games to anticipate in 2023

  • The best games of 2022. Clockwise from top left: Stray, Elden Ring, Immortality, Bayonetta 3

    Best culture of 2022 so far
    The 20 best video games of 2022

November 2022

  • The Case of the Golden Idol.

    Simon Parkin on games
    The Case of the Golden Idol review – delicious Sherlockian murder mystery

    A treasure inspires murder, and your job as detective is to piece together the crime in this addictive 18th-century whodunnit

October 2022

  • Amicia and Hugo in A Plague Tale: Requiem.

    A Plague Tale: Requiem review – rat-infested sequel raises stakes and spectacle

  • Norco

    Simon Parkin on games
    Norco review – dour, compelling Louisiana adventure

September 2022

  • Chris Pine in Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, in armour and cloak

    From satanic panic to billion-dollar business: how Dungeons & Dragons conquered the world

    A role-playing game born half a century ago in a Wisconsin basement has spawned an empire spanning film, TV and YouTube. How did it leave its mark on Stranger Things, ET and everyone from Stephen King to Elon Musk?
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