In this week’s newsletter: We’ve become so used to digitally downloading games now that it’s easy to forget how novel it once was, thanks to places like Xbox 360’s Marketplace
In this brilliantly surreal, slapstick cartoon puzzler set in a fictitious northern town, you (a junior salesman) help an array of weird characters with odd jobs
Set in the year between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Outlaws follows Kay, an ambitious street thief as she plots a giant heist. We meet the gang behind the gang
Hypnospace Outlaw’s creative director Jay Tholen returns with a sequel that promises more tongue-in-cheek fun for people old enough to remember GeoCities
In this uniquely absurd mishmash of adventure and dating game, you are a house looking for love on an island of eligible bachelor pads
Having abandoned them entirely in a fit of fury in the late 90s, I recently made a return to platform games. How long before the rage takes over?
This cutesy and surprisingly intuitive brain teaser pushes the idea of the sliding-block puzzle to the very limits
This beautiful-looking action game is based on Journey to the West, the great Chinese novel – but its own journey to release has hit a bump in the road
This strange, dark game is an allegory about voyeurism and transactional sex that gives ample space to freak ourselves out – and critics and players can’t get enough
Creative director Andrea Lucco Borlera explains how this fever dream of a game came to be and why it’s not afraid to get weird