Since launching last year, Total War: Warhammer s [official site] digital facsimile of Games Workshop s weird fantasy universe has grown considerably. The Old World s become nice and fat with new factions, campaigns, units and mechanics, and now it s finished. So this is a pretty good time to jump in, especially if you ve been holding out for every piece of DLC. But oh no! There s so much of it! If you get the wrong one, you might never forgive yourself. That s why you d best stick with me to find out which ones are crackers and which are stinkers.

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The follow-up to charming and decent-enough city-builder Lethis – Path of Progress is not another build ’em up, but rather an interplanetary exploration game. Triskell Interactive this week announced Lethis – Daring Discoverers [official site], which will blast some odd folks from the steampunk world up to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no gungan has gone before. Have a look at the announcement trailer: … [visit site to read more]

Every party-goer knows it s cool and trendy to arrive late. You wait until everyone is tipsy and bored of each other, then you appear in the doorway, hands full of ice creams, wearing your best pair of gloves. de Blob [official site], the jazzy puzzle-platformer about painting the town red and other colours, has arrived to the PC party a whole 9 years after its original release on the Wii. So, uh, hi de Blob. … [visit site to read more]

It’s still early days for me in Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War 3 [official site] , and, truth be told, I’m still not entirely sure what to make of it. It’s tricksy beast, a little higher-maintenance than I’m used to from this series, with less attachment to any individual squad/unit, but the pay-off for that is far vaster armies and a more spectular sense of Only War than ever before.

The stand-out element for me so far, though, is the Ork Waaagh! Dem boyz really go to town when they hear the call to war. … [visit site to read more]

A seven-year-old insomniac founds a new religion to convince animals that being eaten is the way to salvation and happiness in Agatha Knife [official site], an adventure game released yesterday. It’s the follow-up to MechaNika, a 2015 game about a child building her own mech – which our John quite enjoyed until its anticlimatic ending. Agatha Knife is set in the same ‘Psychotic Adventures’ world as MechaNika, and Spanish studio Mango Protocol looks to be continuing with that same cheery grim tone. (Note: I hereby coin the term ‘grindark’.) Peep this trailer: … [visit site to read more]

Sometimes tiny is just enough. Isn’t that a lovely thought? But more often it’s not quite enough, because it’s tiny. Under Leaves [official site] is a very pretty, very tiny little hidden objects game, and it’s not quite enough. … [visit site to read more]

Tilt Brush [official site] was, hands down, one of the best things in VR last year, but given the VR platform means a smaller potential player-base it’s got that challenge of “How do I share any of this cool stuff with people not wearing VR headsets?” That’s where the new Sketches gallery comes in, letting you peer at people’s creations using a regular browser. … [visit site to read more]

Graviteam’s reputation for martial eccentricity is under threat. Their next standalone dual-layer wargame isn’t set in a cobwebby corner of the Eastern Front. It doesn’t simulate an operation in the Bangladesh Liberation War or the Western Sahara Conflict. Manned exclusively by German and US personnel, the monikered-with-a-mallet Tank Warfare: Tunisia 1943 (out on Monday, price TBA) has at its hub an operation that is almost a household name compared with the likes of Operations Zvesda and Hooper. … [visit site to read more]

Perception [official site], the first-person spookhouse horror starring a woman who sees with Daredevil-style echolocation, now has a release date: May 30th. We’ll get to explore an abandoned mansion, investigating something spooky which has lurked for generations, by making noises which send out soundwaves we can magically convert to eerie images. Oh, and of course the horrors haunting the mansion are attracted to sound. Great. Good. Lovely. See in this trailer: … [visit site to read more]

Ooooh! A Subnautica [official site] update! This one is called Silent Running and yet the trailer is VERY LOUD. I think the silent bit only applies to the Cyclops (a big underwater craft) which you can now run silently if you want to sneak around. Sneaking is now important because of the underwater jerks trying to munch on your Cyclops. That sounded wrong. Let’s move on and watch the video: … [visit site to read more]