Full List of Video Games
Tracks The Train Set Game
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 11/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Creative, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
This is a digital version of wooden toy train sets, without the costs of buying more and more track pieces. You build your toy train set and towns and then jump into the driver's seat and drive the train, seeing your toy world to scale. It's a very...
Bake 'n Switch
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @bakenswitch
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Bake 'n Switch is a puzzle fighting game where 2-4 players are apprentice bakers fighting the "Mould" and taking on various Guardian bosses. It's ridiculously cute and a lot of silly fun, as you catch, merge and sacrifice the anthropomorphised dough...
Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 20/11/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Players: This is a single player game
Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond is a pirate adventure where you run, jump and explore the world of the film. You play as either Pinky or Veronica, and join the legendary pirate Captain Sabertooth’s crew on the hunt for a mysterious magic...
Lego Hidden Side
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/08/2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Creative, Narrative, Physically Active, Puzzle and Shooting
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Lego Hidden side is an adventure game you play by building physical Lego kits and then interacting with them via an augmented reality app on your Smartphone. After building, when you put the kids on the camera they come to life on the screen, offering...
Legends of Runeterra
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 24/01/2020
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @RiotGames
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Legends of Runeterra is a collectible card game that takes place in the League of Legends universe. You battle other players using the cards you've collected that bring in champions, creatures, weapons, and powers.
Lunark
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @CanariGames
Players: This is a single player game
Lunark is a platform game with simple pixilated graphics that tell a cinematic story. It's similar to games like Flashback that were popular in the 80s and 90s. You run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through mysterious alien ruins, a...
Kine
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 19/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @DireGoldfish
Players: This is a single player game
Kine is a 3D puzzle game where you control three robot instruments: Roo, the accordion; Quat, the drum; and Euler, the trombone. To help them become a band, you solve puzzles that involve their different abilities in various ways.
Grapple Dog
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @JoGribbin
Players: This is a single player game
Grapple Dog is a platform game where you play a pixel dog with the ability to grapple onto surfaces to swing and jump around a level. You can extend the length of the rope for a longer swing. In this way you take on puzzles, enemies and various...
Magnibox
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 26/03/2019
Platforms: PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @JoGribbin
Players: This is a single player game
Magnibox is a puzzle game about a magnet that's also a box. Through 160 hand made levels, you have to use your magnetic and box-like abilities to collect all the keys and stars. The game starts simple but steadily adds in lots of clever twists and...
Hot Swap
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/11/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @JoGribbin
Players: This is a single player game
Hop Swap is a platform game where you can flip gravity and jump through the ground. The sky becomes the ground and the ground becomes the sky. This simple premise is used to create a complex and weaving puzzle adventure where you journey through two...
Echo Generation
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Turn-Based
Developer: @Cococucumber
Players: This is a single player game
Echo Generation is an adventure set during the summer of 1993. You and your friends set out to investigate the source of a mysterious crash. Complete quests, battle monsters and level up your party to save your hometown from danger in a heroic tale of...
Project Winter
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/05/2019
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure and Strategy
Developer: @ProjWinter
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Project Winter is a multiplayer survival game. Up to 8 people work to survive the winter by gathering resources, repairing structures, and braving the wilderness dangers together. However, up to two people are traitors within the group and try to dash...
Katamari Damacy Reroll
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/12/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action and Open World
Developer: @BandaiNamcoUS
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Katamari Damacy Reroll is a puzzle game where you control a sticky ball. The aim is to roll up as much stuff as possible, making yourself as big as possible. The game starts small by simply having you pick up thumbtacks, game pieces, and caramels....
Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 11/11/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4
Developer: @SquareEnix
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory is an action-rhythm game. You play through songs from the Kingdom Hearts series of video games by hitting enemies in time with the music with your staff. This makes for a nice blend of rhythm and combat.
Scribble It
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 20/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @DetachOfficial
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 16 players online
Scribble It is a digital take on the classic board game Pictionary. You take turns drawing a word as the other players try to be the first one to guess it. The benefit is that you don't have to be in the same place to play. Also, there's the added...
Prodeus
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 09/11/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @Prodeus
Players: This is a single player game
Prodeus is fast paced shooting game. It's designed to recreate the frantic reaction based play of the first shooting games like Quake and Doom. You familiarise yourself with complex levels, searching for keys, while engaging enemies in fast-paced combat...
She Remembered Caterpillars
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 17/01/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @TheJumpSuits
Players: This is a single player game
She Remembered Caterpillars is a colour-matching puzzle game with an unusual look and emotional story to tell. Through the unsettling fungi-punk aesthetic you work out how to get your characters to the endpoint of each stage. As you do you eavesdrop on...
Mortal Shell
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 18/08/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Role-Playing
Developer: @MortalShellGame
Players: This is a single player game
Mortal Shell is a fighting role-playing video with difficult battles. It invites you to explore and fight your way through a shattered world where the remains of humanity wither and rot.
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @RajiTheGame
Players: This is a single player game
Raji: An Ancient Epic is a running and jumping puzzle game drawing on Hindu and Balinese history. Taking inspiration from tales like Mahabharata and Ramayana you play a young girl named Raji how is chosen by the gods to defend the human race.
Assassins Creed Valhalla (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 10/11/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: This is a single player game
Assassin's Creed Valhalla is the twelfth game in the Assassins Creed Series, an open world action-adventure that takes place over several main story quests as well as many optional side missions.
Godfall
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: PC and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Adventure and Role-Playing
Developer: @PlayGodfall
Players: You can play this with 3 players online
Godfall is a fighting role-playing game that puts you in the role of a Valorian knight, masters of combat. The game revolves around loot mechanics, which mean the goal is to defeat enemies and collect the items they drop. These items are used to improve...
Five Dates
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres:
Developer: @WalesInter
Players: This is a single player game
Five Dates is an adventure game about finding a partner. You play Vinny, a millennial from London, and join a dating app for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic. The game offers five potential female matches that you must pluck up courage to...
Under Leaves
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/04/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @CircusAtos
Players: This is a single player game
Under Leaves is a puzzle game where you search of colour-filled hidden objects in scenes made of flora and fauna. Each one is a hand-drawn watercolour illustrations and accompanied with a soothing soundscape. It's a game about observation and attention...
Rivals
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 21/09/2020
Platforms: PC
Developer: @TimSheinman
Players: This is a single player game
Rivals is a puzzle game where you piece together the story of Josh and Luke and the breakup of their band. Playing detective, similarly to Return of the Obra Dinn, but rather than murder it's musical betrayal you are sleuthing here. You inspect sources,...
Fallen Leaf
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Developer: @FallenLeafGame
Players: This is a single player game
Fallen Leaf is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play a treasure hunter on the trail of a repressive, merciless ruler. It looks like an old school game with pixel visuals, but the game play is right up to date. You use magical gauntlets and...
Astro's Playroom
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/11/2020
Platforms: PlayStation 5
Players: This is a single player game
Astro's Playroom is a running and jumping game that launched with the PlayStation 5. It not only showcases the PS5's new DualSense controller but offers a loveable adventure with novel interactions and considerable substance.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 12/08/2012
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Genres: Action, Shooting and Strategy
Developer: @ValveSoftware
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 10 players online
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (commonly abbreviated as CS:GO) is a competitive first-person shooting game. You play either a counter-terrorist or terrorist. The objective changes based on the game-mode you play but generally, game modes are...
New World
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 25/05/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Role-Playing and Strategy
Developer: @AmznGameStudios
Players: You can play this with 1000 players online
New World is an online role-playing game where you colonize a fictional land modelled after 1600s colonial America in the Atlantic Ocean. The world is persistent and accommodates 1000s of players to create a living breathing eco-system.
Arma 3 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 12/09/2013
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Creative, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @BohemiaInteract
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 32 players online
Arma 3 is a realistic military simulator. Unlike games such as Call of Duty or Battlefield Arma focuses on realism. Rather than blockbuster effects, it spends time simulating the...
Teardown
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @TuxedoLabs
Players: This is a single player game
Teardown is a strategic game where you plan and execute a heist in a fully destructible environments. Your objective is to claim the key cards that are hidden around the map. However taking one triggers the alarm, giving you only sixty seconds before...
Hey! Pikmin (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 28/07/2017
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @NintendoUK
Players: This is a single player game
Hey! Pikmin is a spinoff game from the Pikmin series. In this game Captain Olimar crash lands on a planet and needs to find fuel to escape, leading a group of Pikmin through 2D side scrolling levels collecting the Sparklium. Players enter a level and...
Silly Walks
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/08/2017
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @ParttimeMonkey
Players: This is a single player game
Silly Walks is an adventure where you control household-objects by tapping the screen to get them to walk. Each tap switches legs so you can control their direction as well as their speed. It sounds simple but takes some considerable skill. The...
The Wandering Villiage
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @StrayFawnStudio
Players: This is a single player game
The Wandering Village is a strategy game where you build a city to escape a world made toxic by spores. You seek shelter on the back of a giant, wandering creature called Onbu. It's unusual because as well as building a thriving settlement, you have to...
My Time at Sandrock
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 31/03/2021
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @PatheaGames
Players: This is a single player game
My Time at Sandrock is a life-simulating role-play game where you restore a run down town. It's set in the same wholesome yet post-apocalyptic world as My Time at Portia. You start by working as a builder, but soon...
Pikmin 2 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/10/2004, updated in 2009
Platforms: GameCube and Nintendo Wii
Genres: Action, Adventure, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @NintendoUK
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pikmin 2 is the second in the Pikmin Series, Captain Olimar is joined by his assistant Louie on a mysterious planet. You are collecting treasures consisting of scrap metal, broken toys. You do this by controlling plant like creatures called Pikmin,...
Pikmin (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 26/10/2001, updated in 2009
Platforms: GameCube and Nintendo Wii
Genres: Action, Adventure, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @NintendoUK
Players: This is a single player game
Pikmin is a real time strategy game where the main character Captain Olimar crash lands on an alien planet filled with strange small creatures called Pikmin. You are able to control and use these creatures to knock down walls, build bridges and attack...
Auto Chess
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 18/04/2019
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Strategy
Developer: @DrodoStudio
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Auto Chess is a strategy game where you set-up automated actions to gain a competitive advantage. As you play you purchase units that will battle for you, each unit has different attributes that can collaborate with other units. The goal ultimately is...
A Way To Slay
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 07/08/2018
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting and Turn-Based
Developer: @NoTripleAGames1
Players: This is a single player game
A Way To Slay is a fighting game that channels bloody battles from brutal action movies. You play a sword-wielding hero outnumbered by enemies trying to kill you. So far, so video game. Here though, the game waits for your input so you can tap the next...
Love You To Bits
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @AlikeStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Love You to Bits is an adventure where you tap to move and interact with objects, like classic point-and-click games. You play Kosmo, a clumsy, rookie space explorer in search of Nova, his robot girlfriend. After a fatal accident, all of Nova’s pieces...
All Of You
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and iOS
Developer: @AlikeStudio
Players: This is a single player game
All of You is a platform game where you can pause time and control the levels rather than the character. By rearranging the timing, order and orientation of the world you play in you can help the mother hen get her chicks back.
Satisfactory
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 19/03/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Creative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Coffee_Stain
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Satisfactory is a factory building set on a foreign planet. Like the popular Tycoon and Factory games in Roblox, you start with humble beginnings, you harvest what you can by hand but steadily you build a sprawling empire of automated harvesting...
Bring You Home
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/10/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @AlikeStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Bring You Home is a running and jumping game with a difference. You play a doddery Polo trying to get your pet back by completing various platform levels. Unusually, though, when you die the game rewinds so you can change the level by swiping the panels...
Fights in Tight Spaces
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 01/09/2020
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Fighting, Simulation and Turn-Based
Developer: @FightsGame
Players: This is a single player game
Fights in Tight Spaces is a turn based fighting game where you use your deck of cards to win combat battles in small rooms and other locations. As you progress you gain more cards and build a deck tailored to each battle.
Blek
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/12/2013
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Wii U and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @KunabiB
Players: This is a single player game
Blek is a puzzle game where you control the repeating motion of a moving line. Your challenge is to pass through coloured dots. However, you can only enter a short motion that repeats. In this way you have to draw in a motion that, as it repeats,...
Lifelike
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac and iOS
Genres: Simulation
Developer: @KunabiB
Players: This is a single player game
Lifelike: Chapter One is a light-touch simulation game where you interact with flocking particles to create a soothing and meditative experience. It's an exercise in attending to something playful and the pleasure and escape that come from this.
Frost
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 25/03/2017
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @KunabiB
Players: This is a single player game
Frost is a puzzle game where you control living particles with gestures to guide them home. Using flocking mechanics the game lets you direct thousands of elements with super simple controls. Each level presents a different scene in which to direct the...
Sniks
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/08/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @ShellyAlon
Players: This is a single player game
Sniks is a puzzle game about guiding colourful worms to matching coloured fruit and food. Each level is a self contained arena with a number of snakes. Each snake can only consume fruit of a matching colour and they can't pass each other. It poses some...
Rolando
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Platforms: Mac and iOS
Players: This is a single player game
Rolando is a puzzle-adventure game where you control the ball-like Rolandos. You direct the collection of creatures through levels by tilting the device and interacting with elements like conveyor belts and elevators via the touch screen. It's a lovely...
Yellow
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 04/05/2017
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Yellow is a spatial puzzle game. Each level you need to turn the screen yellow. How you do this varies from level to level. Dragging objects to match a silhouette, tapping and holding in time with a rhythm, spinning your finger, tapping in order. The...
Song of Bloom
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Song of Bloom is a narrative puzzle game where you explore chalk drawn animations to discover a melancholy story. Working through these moving pictures you interact with clue elements highlighted in red that unlock the next chapter of the story.
Sticky Terms
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/03/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Sticky Terms is a puzzle game where you construct words from other languages with portions of letters. You rotate, drag and overlap the different elements to create words, once you do you are rewarded with a drum hit and a definition of the word.
Akurra
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/07/2021
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @Gojirra
Players: This is a single player game
Akurra is a block pushing puzzle and exploration game. Its look is inspired by classic games like Zelda, Star Tropics, and Chip’s Challenge. It looks simple, but offers a rich and complex puzzles backed by visuals and sounds that take you back to the...
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 14/08/2014, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Developer: @KoeiTecmoUS
Players: This is a single player game
The Hyrule Warriors series of games are hack and slash action games, set in the Legend of Zelda Universe and focussed primarily on close combat against large groups of enemies. The latest in the series Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, merges the...
The Touryst
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/11/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @ShinenGames
Players: This is a single player game
The Touryst is a puzzle based adventure, where you seek to unlock the mysteries of an archipelago of sun-drenched islands. That's if you want to of course, because the adventure can wait if you'd rather soak up the sun and make the most of your time...
Undertale
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/09/2015
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita
Genres: Adventure, Role-Playing and Turn-Based
Developer: @TobyFox
Players: This is a single player game
Undertale is a 2D adventure game where you don't have to kill anyone. Providing you unique ways to avoid combat from dancing with a slime to whispering your deepest secret to a knight. However, you could just ignore this option and rain destruction...
Batman: Arkham City (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 18/10/2011
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Open World
Developer: @RocksteadyGames
Players: This is a single player game
Batman: Arkham City is an open world adventure, the second instalment in the Arkham series taking place one year after the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum. You play Batman fighting crime, and a dwindling reputation,...
Beat Me!
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 13/11/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @RedLimbStudio
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 6 players online
Beat Me! is a fighting game where comical fantasy characters battle to win. Along with the fun and unusual locations, Beat Me stands out because of its use of real world physics to determine who wins.
Knight of Exile
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 03/01/0020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Developer: @DonXugloGames
Players: This is a single player game
Knight of Exile is a running, jumping and combat game where you play Cormac, the commander of the royal guard fighting to return from exile to restore order to the kingdom. It's unusual because of the combat mechanics that require players to react...
Dysmantle
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 06/01/0020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Strategy
Developer: @10tonsLtd
Players: This is a single player game
Dysmantle is a survival strategy game where you play a character emerging after the apocalypse. The world is now inhabited with dangerous creatures and you only have your bare hands to survive. It's novel because most items in the world can be destroyed...
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 25/08/2009
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Open World
Developer: @RocksteadyGames
Players: This is a single player game
Batman: Arkham Asylum is an open-world adventure game. It's the first game in the Batman: Arkham series. In the game, the Joker has taken over Arkham Asylum trapping Batman inside and watching him as he tries to escape, sending various enemies after him...
Call of Duty: Warzone (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 10/03/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Developer: @InfinityWard
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 150 players online
Call of Duty: Warzone is a large online shooting game. It's played with 150 other players with teams in squads of 1 to 4 players. As with other battle royale games, the map on which you play shrinks to great intense finale shot downs. This, combined...
Swimsanity
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 07/08/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @DecoyGames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Swimsanity is a multiplayer underwater shooting game. It's fast paced cartoon action with lots of modes to play with other people. You have a variety of unique power ups and weapons to survive in this aquatic world. But the real novelty is how inventive...
Monster Prom
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 27/04/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Developer: @BtflGlitch
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Monster Prom is a role-playing game set in a high school for monsters where you are looking for love. You make choices about the dating-focused narrative by exploring the campus and talking to different monster characters. It has some light...
Deiland Pocket Planet
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 09/08/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @ChibigStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Deiland is an adventure set on a small spherical planet. You farm, craft, and build your own world. Improve your skills, craft tools, cook food, brew potions, and create tools. As you make your home, you will attract merchants to trade materials and...
Family Tree
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 19/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @InfiniteStates
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Family Tree is a pinball game where you also aim your shots like jumping around a platform game. You bounce on enemies to traverse hundreds of hand-crafted puzzles.
Part Time UFO
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/02/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Part Time UFO is a puzzle game where you use your flying craft and claw to solve various problems. Sort out a farm, support cheerleaders, cook up the ultimate dessert at a restaurant or even build a castle. It's like the sort of coin-operated crane...
Tenderfoot Tactics
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 21/08/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Open World, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @IceWaterGames
Players: This is a single player game
Tenderfoot Tactics is a role play adventure game where you play a young adventurer in a vast open world. The visuals and the Final Fantasy Tactics-style battles look simple but offer depth that requires you to learn the deterministic combat system and...
Watch Dogs Legion
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Watch Dogs: Legion is an adventure game, the third instalment in the Watch Dogs series. It's set in a fictionalised future dystopian London. You play hackers in group DedSec seeking to clear their name for bombings in the city.
Cyberpunk 2077
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 10/12/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Cyberpunk 2077 is a massive open-world action-adventure game inspired by cyberpunk themes, focused on the merging of humanity and technology. The line between human and machine is heavily blurred in every corner of its world. You have a fully...
Ghostrunner
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 27/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @Oml_Games
Players: This is a single player game
Ghostrunner is a challenging, fast-paced fighting game with a puzzle solving element. Played from a first-person perspective, you navigate the world using parkour-like skills, running on walls, sliding through gaps or jumping and swinging over them....
Fishy 3D
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 07/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @SokPopCo
Players: This is a single player game
Fishy 3D is a small game where you play a little fish in a polluted riverbed. Your objective is simply to escape to the sea! This is done by navigating through your pond and eventually releasing enough water that you can reach the pipe that leads to the...
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Seige (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 01/12/2015
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Developer: @Rainbow6Game
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Rainbow Six Siege is a 5-v-5 multiplayer tactical shooting game where you either play a terrorist or a counter-terrorist. Your job is either to defend an objective such as a bomb site, biohazard container, or hostages or to stop the terrorist by...
Due Process
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 20/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @EnemyCrabGames
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Due Process is a tactical shooting game that focuses on both the planning and execution of missions. You are presented with a unique mission where teams of five either have to defend or attack a particular location. Spending time talking through tactics...
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 13/11/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Developer: @CallofDuty
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 40 players online
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is a shooting game. It's a direct sequel to the original Call of Duty: Black Ops. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will have a Campaign, Multiplayer, Zombies, and integration into Call of Duty: Warzone. It's a game that...
Descenders
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/05/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @RageSquid
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Descenders is a downhill mountain biking game with a focus on skill. In each downhill run, your goal is to score as many points as possible by completing skill based challenges and executing as many tricks and flips as you can, all while you try to...
Watch Dogs 2 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 15/11/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Narrative, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Watch Dogs 2 is a futuristic adventure game where you explore a city and use technology to foil your enemies. It's the second game in the series and set in a fictionalised San Francisco Bay Area. You explore the city on foot or in vehicles that you can...
Assault Android Cactus
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Assault Android Cactus is a fast cartoon-style shooting game where you responds to a distress call from a crippled space freighter and defend it from wayward robot workers. One stick controls the movement while the other stick controls the direction of...
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/02/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Dan_Games
Players: You can play this with 5 players online
Stormworks is an open world adventure where you design, build and pilot your own air sea rescue service. You create programmable vehicles using it's block-building system and pilot them into dangerous situations to rescue stricken vessels or...
Watch Dogs (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 27/05/2014
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Narrative, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Watch Dogs an open world adventure. It's the first instalment in the Watch Dogs series. You navigate and explore the world on foot or in a variety of vehicles. The novelty is the futuristic setting that highlights the use (and misuse) of social media to...
Gutwhale
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 06/04/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Platform and Shooting
Developer: @wombatstuff
Players: This is a single player game
Gutwhale is a challenging shooting game set inside a whale. Unusually, you only have one single bullet, which you must continue to collect after each use if you want to shoot again. The game is split into three distinct levels, each with four sub-levels...
Craftlands Workshoppe
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 13/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure, Creative, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @CraftlandsGame
Players: This is a single player game
Craftlands Workshoppe is a strategy game where you build and manage a crafting empire. You start the game by opening your own workshop that can specialize in one of three trades: Blacksmithing, Alchemy, or Cooking.
King Pins
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 25/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Fighting, Open World and Strategy
Developer: @SokpopCo
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
King Pins is a small real time strategy game where you command a small group of people to gather resources, build bases, farms and towers to defend yourself or attack the three other encampments. It's like Age of Empires but in miniature fashion....
Zelter
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Open World, Role-Playing and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Zelter is a zombie survival game. But you aren't only defending yourself from the oncoming hordes of zombies but developing a safe haven for a new life like Stardew Valley.
Spelunky 2 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 29/09/2020
Platforms: PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Developer: @MossMouth
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Spelunky 2 is, like the classic Spelunky, a running and jumping game where you exploring mysterious caves on the moon looking for your missing parents. On your journey, you will find unique environments, treasure, and people to join you as you delve...
Unspottable
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle, Rhythm and Simulation
Developer: @GrosChevaux
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Unspottable is a puzzle game where you try and work out which of the identical characters are controlled by other players and which are computers. It's a race to punch your friends before they punch you, but the more times you get it wrong the more...
Lost and Hound
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @DaisyAleSounds
Players: This is a single player game
Lost and Hound is an adventure puzzle game where you play as a scent tracking rescue dogs, Corgi and Biscuit. You use your sense of smell to find things and solve mysteries. Your heightened hearing and senses enable you find your goals, eventually...
Minecraft Dungeons
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/05/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @DungeonsGame
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Minecraft Dungeons is an action-adventure game that takes place in the Minecraft universe. You explore various dungeons to complete missions and collect new gear by exploring and finding treasure chests, or by defeating enemies....
Space Wave Race
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 07/07/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Racing
Developer: @RisingPixel
Players: This is a single player game
Space Wave Race is a racing game. You compete in an intergalactic racing championship where you will challenge the best pilots in the galaxy. It's designed to be able to be played with just the audio feedback, and offers a challenge for both sighted and...
Offroad Mania
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 10/02/2020
Platforms: PC and Web Browser
Developer: @ActiveGames
Players: This is a single player game
Offroad Mania is a physics focused driving game that has you trying to navigate difficult off-road terrain. It's unusual because of the focus on travseral, vehicle administration and driving skill.
Twelve Minutes
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @FacaElectrica
Players: This is a single player game
Twelve Minutes is an adventure thriller game about a single apartment building. You view things from above and can interact with a simple click and drag interface. What starts as a romantic evening with your wife turns into a nightmare when a police...
Ikenfell
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/10/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Open World, Rhythm, Role-Playing and Turn-Based
Developer: @PlayHumbleGames
Players: This is a single player game
Ikenfell is a turn based role play game where you use timing to power spells and block attacks. You explore the twisted halls of a vast magic school, a bit like Harry Potter, fight monsters and uncover hidden treasure and dark secrets.
Tabletop Simulator
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 05/06/2015
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Creative and Simulation
Developer: @BerserkGames
Players: You can play with 10 players in the same room and up to 10 players online
Tabletop Simulator is a way to play classic board and card games on a computer. It is a system that provides a simulated gaming table for you to enjoy as you wish. The game provides you with all the physics, pieces, and table space for you to play on.
Playne
Rating: PEGI 3+
Release Date: 22/06/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Creative, Physically Active and Simulation
Developer: @playne
Players: This is a single player game
Playne is a narrative-driven meditation game that helps you build daily meditation habits. With each meditation session, Playne's story begins to unfold and the life on your island begins to grow providing you with more environments to meditate in.
Ultrakill
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Players: This is a single player game
Ultrakill is a fast very violent retro shooting game. It's like the games that created this genre, Quake, Doom and the more recent Devil May Cry. You must use quick reactions to move and shoot before you yourself are shot. You can find weapons to help,...
Race the Sun
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Developer: @Flippfly
Players: This is a single player game
Race the Sun is an arcade-inspired racing game where you helm a solar-powered craft. Your objective is simple, hurdle towards the sun dodging obstacles for as long as possible before the sun sets.
Empty
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/09/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Web Browser and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @_Dstrm
Players: This is a single player game
Empty is a minimalist puzzle game that teaches the value of simplicity in life. You rotate and interact with different vignettes to line up items with the same background colour. As you do this they disappear and the scene slowly empties.
Phasmophobia
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 18/09/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @KineticGame
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Phasmophobia (Phasmophobia VR) a horror survival game where you and your team investigate paranormal activity. It focuses on creating a realistic world built to get your heart racing, through the interactive ghost hunting equipment and teamwork.
Evergate
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox Series X|S
Developer: @StnLntrnGames
Players: This is a single player game
Evergate is a running and jumping game where you can slow down time to make difficult jumps through hand-drawn environments. It combines the need for timing and puzzle solving in a game that slowly tells the story of the characters you meet.
Unto The End
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 09/12/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Fighting, Narrative, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @2TonStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Unto The End is a cinematic combat-adventure where the fighting is modelled in a read-and-react style. It requires time to master the unusual system but offers many ways to take on foes. Tactics and intelligent decisions are as important for survival as...
Alpaca Ball: Allstars
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @Salt_Castle
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room
Alpaca Ball: Allstars is a football (soccer) game played with four legged furry animals. Rather than kick the ball you whack it with your head and long neck. You can also block and ram your opponents, or dive-kick them out the way.
Hogwarts Legacy
Rating: PEGI 16+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @AvalancheSweden
Players: This is a single player game
Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world role play game set in the world of Harry Potter. You control a wizard character who starts as a student at Hogwarts but then ventures out on a dangerous journey with a mystery to solve. You design your character, learn...
Noita
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 05/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World, Platform, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @NollaGames
Players: This is a single player game
Noita is platform adventure game in a world where each and every pixel is physically simulated. This means that the tiny elements that make up the landscape and characters have their own properties that: melt, burn, evapourate, explode, flow, float,...
Outriders
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 02/02/2021
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Role-Playing and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 3 players online
Outriders is shooter game that includes role-playing elements. You create a character and choose from four classes with unique abilities: Tricksters who can manipulate time, Pyromancers who can manipulate fire, Devastators who can use seismic attacks,...
Call of Duty Mobile
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 15/10/2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Call of Duty Mobile is a shooting game where up to 100 players compete on large battlefield maps. To win, players shoot each other, ideally in the head, in a range of modes. Fast 5v5 team deathmatches. Sniper vs sniper battles.
Luna The Shadow Dust
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/10/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @LanternStudio_
Players: This is a single player game
Luna The Shadow Dust is an adventure game where you play two companions drawn together in a hand-animated world. Each part of the game is beautifully realised and presents a puzzle to solve.
Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 21/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @Rocketship_Park
Players: This is a single player game
Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret. You interact with and explore a single apartment building. As you do you learn about the lives of the people that live there. You can manipulate the building to move floors between...
A Hat in Time
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 05/10/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @HatInTime
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 50 players online
A Hat in Time is a running, jumping and exploring game inspired by retro platform games like Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon and Psychonauts. As you explore each of the worlds, you discover characters to talk to, enemies to battle and an...
Reigns: Beyond (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Reigns: Beyond is the next game in the Reigns series that puts you in charge of making important decisions. Rather than running a kingdom, this time you are in an intergalactic indie rockband trying to gain stardom and fame.
Downwell
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/10/2015
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita
Genres: Action, Platform and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Downwell is a vertically scrolling platform game where you frantically shoot snail-like enemies to gain points and upgrades. You will die frequently, but that's part of the fun. Each go, you have a chance to learn from what went wrong last time as you...
Super Punch Patrol
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 17/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Developer: @BertilHorberg
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Super Punch Patrol is a challenging fighting game where you traverse a hand drawn urban environment, battling waves of enemies with your bare fists and a variety of other hand to hand weapons.
Headliner: NoviNews
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 05/10/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @UnboundCreation
Players: This is a single player game
Headliner: NoviNews is a narrative-driven simulation game where you play as the person in charge of the headlines and stories that are released to the public. Each article you approve from your office has a direct impact of the world outside. Which news...
Asphalt 9: Legends (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 08/10/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Racing and Rhythm
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Asphalt 9: Legends is a racing game in the series that focuses on fast driving fun. This year the game adds new cars, a wide range of accessible control schemes, race modes, and nitro boosts for extra speed.
Gunman Clive (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 02/01/2012, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS
Genres: Action, Platform and Shooting
Developer: @BertilHorberg
Players: This is a single player game
Gunman Clive is a platform game where you traverse through a hand drawn western landscape, negotiating moving platforms, traps and enemies. Shooting is a major part of the game, and the player can pick up specialized weapons such as a spread shot,...
Unrailed
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 23/09/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @IndoorAstronaut
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Unrailed! is a co-op strategy game where you work with friends to build a train line across endless landscapes. Along with finding the resources to build track, bridges and tunnels you need to deal with local inhabitants, upgrade your train, and watch...
Mafia Definitive Edition (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 29/08/2002, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing, Shooting and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Mafia is a series of action/adventure game about being in the Mafia. You play Tommy Angelo, a poor hard-working cab driver who gets caught up in a fight between two crime families. You explore a large open city taking on criminal activities to rise...
Good Pizza, Great Pizza
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/06/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Creative and Simulation
Developer: @TapBlaze
Players: This is a single player game
Good Pizza, Great Pizza is a simulation game where you run your own Pizza shop, fulfilling orders from customers while making enough money to keep your shop open. You can upgrade your shop with new toppings and equipment to compete against your...
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 03/12/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Adventure, Fighting and Open World
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: This is a single player game
Immortals Fenyx Rising is a mythical adventure game where you play Fenyx, exploring the huge open world, solving puzzles and fighting evil fantasy creatures. Fenyx is a newly winged demigod, who was prophesied to be the one to save the Greek Gods' home...
Rain on Your Parade
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Rain on Your Parade is a slapstick puzzle game where you play a mischievous cloud ruining everybody’s day. "You are a cloud jerk," says the trailer. In each of the varied levels you have to work out what it is you need to do to make people's lives a...
Fight Crab
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @Crab_Fight
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Fight Crab is an fighting game where you battle with weaponised crabs. But rather than pressing buttons to pull off moves, you have to work with the game’s over-the-top physics. This combines with giant crustaceans, insane weapons and claws to create...
The Gecko Gods
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Inresin
Players: This is a single player game
The Gecko Gods is a puzzle game where you control a small lizard reptile exploring a world and solving puzzles. You interact with the flora and fauna, catch insects and visit other animals. Because you have sticky feet you can climb any surface.
Star Wars: Squadrons
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 02/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Shooting and Simulation
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Star Wars: Squadrons is a shooting game where you master piloting spaceships. Squadrons offers a single player, narrative-based game, in which you play as two pilots (one in the Galactic Empire and one in the New Republic) where you'll fight in battles...
Risk of Rain 2
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 30/08/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Shooting
Developer: @HopooGames
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Risk of Rain 2 is a multiplayer adventure game where you have to fight to survive and escape a planet you've crash-landed on. It's formatted like a 'Roguelike' game: an iterative type of game that requires multiple goes to complete a level and where...
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Open World
Developer: @InsomniacGames
Players: This is a single player game
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is an action-adventure game based on the Marvel Comics superhero Miles Morales. It is similar to the first Marvel's Spider-Man game in mechanics although extends this considerably.
Carrion
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Kroskiewicz
Players: This is a single player game
Carrion is a horror game where you play the amorphous alien as well as human protagonists. This reverse-horror scenario puts you in control of an organic tentacled monster to make your way through the facility, stalking and killing humans in your path.
Deep Rock Galactic
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 13/05/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Deep Rock Galactic is shooting game where you play a team of dwarves in a totally destructible world. You explore caves and battle enemy hordes that are different each time you play (like Left 4 Dead).
Raft
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 23/05/2018
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @RedbeetOfficial
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Raft is a survival game where you work to build a raft while stranded at sea. You start the game on a small raft with only a hook made of old plastic, with which you use to pull in floating barrels and planks of wood.
Jumpy Wall
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/09/2015
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @PimCoumans
Players: This is a single player game
Jumpy Wall is a game where you must climb up a shaft by jumping between two walls. As you progress you'll meet more obstacles that aim to kill your little pixel character. Wall jump from left to right to get higher and higher while avoiding spikes and...
Hades
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 06/12/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Role-Playing and Shooting
Developer: @SupergiantGames
Players: This is a single player game
Hades is a shooting game where you battle your way through dungeons to escape hell and the clutches of Hades. You play as Zagreus, the son of Hades and through the game you'll meet many recognisable greek gods like Zeus, Athena and Posiedon who will try...
Jetpack Joyride
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/09/2011
Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Developer: @HalfBrick
Players: This is a single player game
Jetpack Joyride is a running, jumping and shooting game you play by just tapping the screen or button at the right time to control your jetpack. Your play a scientist who runs through each of the levels and must survive and get to the end.
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @UsTwo
Players: This is a single player game
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is an adventure game where you play as a young girl who starts a wildlife conservation club. When Alba visits her grandparents on a Mediterranean island, she is excited for a summer of exploring with her friend Ines. But when...
Grace's Diary
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/08/2016
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and Web Browser
Genres: Narrative and Role-Playing
Developer: @StopTDV
Players: This is a single player game
Grace's Diary is a role playing game where you play, Grace, who is concerned about her friend Natalie who's behaviour has changed since she started dating her current boyfriend. By experiencing the conversations first hand and making notes in your...
Super Mario Bros. 35
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Players: You can play this with 35 players online
Super Mario Bros. 35 is Mario combined with Fortnite's battle royale online competition. You play a Mario game, but as you score points you send one of the other 35 players enemies and hazards. Jump on a Koopa and send it to the leader on points or...
Genshin Impact
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 27/09/2020
Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Role-Playing
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Genshin Impact is a role-playing adventure set in a fantastical open world you explore by walking, climbing, swimming and gliding as necessary. Like the Zelda games, you can collect items, and craft new weapons. However, in this game to create a party...
Qomp
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 15/11/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @WombatStuff
Players: This is a single player game
Qomp is a bat and ball game with a difference. You control the ball rather than the bat. Trapped in between paddles for decades, you finally escape and start an adventure through a maze of dungeons.
10 Second Ninja X
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 29/06/2016
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @GameDesignDan
Players: This is a single player game
10 Second Ninja X is a super-fast puzzle game with a difference: every level lasts ten seconds or less. In each level, your challenge is to destroy all of the enemies on screen before the timer runs out. The faster you complete each level, the higher...
South of the Circle
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Developer: @State_of_Play
Players: This is a single player game
South of the Circle is a narrative adventure game about, Peter, a Cambridge academic who finds himself fighting for survival in Antarctica during the 1960’s Cold War. You must cross desolate terrain to reach British, Norwegian and Soviet Antarctic...
Ghost of Tsushima
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 17/07/2020
Platforms: PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Adventure and Open World
Developer: @SuckerPunchProd
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 4 players online
Ghost of Tsushima is a stealth and action adventure set in 13th century Japan, where you play as a clan leader and samurai warrior trying to protect your people and the Tsushima Island against Mongol invaders.
Williams Pinball
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 09/10/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Williams are a renowned designer and manufacturer of pinball machines. Its tables can be played on different systems through games that simulate the original games. This include the physics of the ball, pixel perfect recreation of the play tables and...
Mechstermination Force
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Platform and Shooting
Developer: @BertilHorberg
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Mechstermination Force is a shooting game with a difference. Along with jumping and climbing around the levels the focus is on battling huge boss enemies. You do this by finding weak spots and blowing them up. It's from the same creator as the Gunman...
Titanfall 2 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 20/10/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @TitanfallGame
Players: You can play this with 12 players online
Titanfall and Titanfall 2 are a shooting game where players control mechanical Titans and their pilots, who are agile and equipped with a variety of weapons and abilities ranging from wall-running to invisibility. This makes it a game that focuses on...
Realm Royal
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 05/06/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @RealmRoyale
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Realm Royale is battle royale shooting game, like Fortnite. The game features multiple character classes each with unique abilities. It's a spin off of the the hero-based shooting game Paladins by the same...
Drone The Game
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 02/08/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Creative, Racing, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @Drone_The_Game
Players: You can play this with 16 players online
Drone The Game is a shooting battle with a highly controllable drone against other online players in arenas like maps. It's unusual because you build and customize your drone by dragging and dropping functional blocks that affect how the drone will fly....
Darwin Project
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 14/01/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @DarwinProject
Players: You can play this with 11 players online
Darwin Project is a battle royale game like Fortnite. Player fight to collect resources to survive and upgrade their character. As well as surviving in extreme conditions you track opponents and set traps. In addition to the ten players is...
Bear and Breakfast
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @ArmorGameStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Bear and Breakfast is a strategy game where you build a bed and breakfast in the woods. You play as an aspiring bear host, renovating a dilapidated area in town into one fit for tourists. However there is an underlying darkness in the woods and you are...
Cookies Must Die
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 05/02/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @Rebel_Twins
Players: This is a single player game
Cookies Must Die is a platform game where you fight mutant cookies. Your character is a genetically modified super human who now, thanks to the scientists, has the ability to hurl its self across the lab facility, aiming at foes and avoiding obstacles.
Impostor
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 17/09/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Open World, Puzzle and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Impostor is a space survival game like Among Us. It is a community created version of that official game on Roblox as Impostor, but also on Minecraft as a couple of minigames called Among Us and Impostor. The Roblox game is a version of Among Us for...
Kirby Fighters 2 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 24/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Fighting
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Kirby Fighters 2 is a light hearted fighting game where you play as the round Nintendo character, Kirby. You can choose from various abilities that your character "copies" from opponents. You fight other characters from the Kirby games in fights against...
Hot Lava
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 19/09/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Open World, Platform and Simulation
Developer: @klei
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Hot Lava is a running and jumping game where you mustn't touch the floor because it's covered in lava. It takes the childhood playground game online as you work to cross nostalgia-filled maps on your own or with other players
Wonderbox
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 23/09/2020
Platforms: Mac and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative and Puzzle
Developer: @AquirisGS
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Wonderbox is a action-adventure game where you tap to build beautiful miniature diorama scenes in which to explore. Like Toad Treasure Tracker Each of these worlds has its own micro-adventure with enemies,...
Sokobond
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 27/08/2013
Platforms: Mac and PC
Developer: @Draknek
Players: This is a single player game
Sokobond is a puzzle game where you create chemical molecules by manoeuvring atoms around the screen, avoiding obstacles. The game is streamlined to not need instructions with its minimalistic design the enables ease of use. As you move through the...
Tony Hawk 1 and 2 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 04/09/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Tony Hawk's is a skateboarding game series. It features the famous skater in 19 different games. From its start in 1999 on PlayStation it is now available on most consoles and has recently been rereleased in updated as Tony Hawk's 1 + 2.
When The Past Was Around
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/09/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @MojikenStudio
Players: This is a single player game
When The Past Was Around is a short adventure puzzle game, where you point and click on items to gather clues, unlock doors and unraveling the secrets of its silent narrative. Without any words it tells the tale of a young woman, Eda, and her love, the...
Penrose
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/09/2020
Platforms: Android, Web Browser and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Creative and Narrative
Developer: @DoubleSpeakGame
Players: This is a single player game
Penrose is a text adventure, where you don't only read the story and choose its next step, but can go back into the text to change it in all sorts of mind-bending ways. As the develop describes it, "Penrose is a non-linear narrative adventure game about...
Grindstone
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 19/09/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Fighting and Puzzle
Developer: @CapyGames
Players: This is a single player game
Grindstone is a colour matching puzzle game, where you plot the right path through each grid-level to attack enemies and gain treasure. The aim it to join together as many similar coloured monsters as possible in once go.
Brunch Club
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @FoggyBoxHQ
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Brunch Club is a cooking game where you possess and move food around the kitchen to complete different recipes. This unusual way to cook creates a unique and silly challenge you take on with up to four people.
Ape Out
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 28/02/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Rhythm
Developer: @GabeCuzzillo
Players: This is a single player game
Ape Out is a stylised fighting game where you control an ape trying to escape a facility. Although it's violent, the gameplay focuses on rhythm and style rather than just gore. As you move, grab and throw your attackers the soundtrack responds to create...
Run To My Heart
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Adventure and Physically Active
Players: This is a single player game
Run To My Heart is an adventure game, where you run in the real world to collect potions from different locations. You work with friends to find and collect the most potions. Players become part of the Potato Rescue Squad, collecting potions and fight...
Embracelet
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 24/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @MachineboyCom
Players: This is a single player game
Embracelet is an adventure game, where you use a magical bracelet to interact with objects and solve puzzles. As you explore the fishing community, make friends and solve puzzles, you subtlety affect the outcome of the story.
Minit
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/08/2018
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Fighting and Puzzle
Developer: @DevolverDigital
Players: This is a single player game
Minit is retro puzzle game where you complete small tasks in within a 60 second time frame. You must dodge or fight foes, cut through the undergrowth, explore your world and find keys and swords. You start from the same place for each of your 60 second...
Road to Guangdong
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/06/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Developer: @ExcalPublishing
Players: This is a single player game
Road to Guangdong is a road trip adventure game about family and travel. You drive across 1990’s Guangdong, fix your car and explore the places you pass. You play as Sunny, just after a family tragedy, travelling with Guu Ma, her aunt. They have the...
Takeshi and Hiroshi
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 18/08/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure and Role-Playing
Developer: @OinkGms
Players: This is a single player game
Takeshi & Hiroshi is a role-play adventure game about two brothers. Its unusual animation and light touch battles, where you chose your enemies rather than how to fight them, make it an ideal game to introduce the genre and for younger players.
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Nier: Automata
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 23/02/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Shooting
Developer: @NieRGame
Players: This is a single player game
Nier: Automata is a role-playing game, that span off from the Drakengard series. It's set in an alternate future where there is a war between alien machines and human androids. But this isn't a game about winning the war. It's more focused on the plight...
Universal Paperclips
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/10/2017
Platforms: Android, Web Browser and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @flantz
Players: This is a single player game
Universal Paperclips is an adventure game about making paperclips. It sounds simple, but behind the incremental process of clicking a button to create these paperclips is a story about how the desire to make paperclips (or anything) if fully realised...
Island Saver
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/05/2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @NatWest_Help
Players: This is a single player game
Island Saver is action-adventure about cleaning up litter and goop to make money. It's created by Natwest with the aim of teaching children how to manage money. Unusually for a game with ideological ambitions, it's also a lot of fun.
Dead by Daylight
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 14/06/2016, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 5 players online
Dead by Daylight is a survival horror game where one player takes on the role of a killer and another other four try and work together to survive. It's unusual because of this asynchronous play and its cross-over with different franchise-inspired themes.
Riders Republic
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/02/2021
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Open World, Racing, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play this with 50 players online
Riders Republic is an extreme sports game. You can mountain bike, ski, snowboard, fly in a wingsuit and rocket-suit. This builds on other spots games with tens of online players competing at once in each event.
A Space for the Unbound
Rating: PEGI 12+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @MojikenStudio
Players: This is a single player game
A Space For The Unbound is an adventure about everyday life where you explore your location, chat with people and solve puzzles. Unusually, you do this by stepping into the mind of people you meet and helping them solve their stuck and knotted...
The White Door
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Developer: @RustyLakeCom
Players: This is a single player game
The White Door is an adventure that you play by exploring each room, finding and interacting with items and people. Along with its unusual black and white visuals, The White Door is also notable for the topic of mental health and memory loss it takes on.
Traffix
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/07/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Traffix is a puzzle game that puts you in charge of traffic lights on different road systems. By changing the lights to red, orange and green you work to get traffic to flow on increasingly complex and busy roads. It sounds complex, but with simple...
Deathloop
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Deathloop is a shooting game where you play an assassin stuck in a time loop. You wake on a beach while residents of Blackreef island have gathered for a party that seemingly lasts forever. At the end of each night time resets and starts again.
Cats Are Cute
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 02/09/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @KKirukStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Cats are Cute is a pet care game where you look after cats and build a town. You collect a variety of cats and buildings around which the cats play and hide. It's really easy to play for youngsters and relaxing for older players.
Ultra Space Battle Brawl
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 05/07/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting and Sports
Developer: @MojikenStudio
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Ultra Space Battle Brawl is a team competitive battle a little like Pong/Breakout. The aim is to smash a glowing disc past the opponents' defences, rather than directly hitting the other players which gives it a sports rather than combat feel.
She and the Light Bearer
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 17/01/2019, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @MojikenStudio
Players: This is a single player game
She and the Light Bearer is a point-and-click adventure game with hand-drawn visuals, where you find and interact with items to solve puzzles and advance through its narrative. It’s accompanied by an instrumental acoustic soundtrack that reveals a new...
Blind Spot
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/10/2019
Platforms: Android
Developer: @BlindSpotGame
Players: This is a single player game
Blind Spot is a hidden target game. However you have to identify the location of the targets without any audio or visual clues. As you run your two fingers over the screen you are provided vibration feedback that increases as you home in on the two...
Ord
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/06/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Role-Playing
Developer: @JoniTweetsGames
Players: This is a single player game
Ord. is an unusual text adventure. Rather than one grand story, you embark on a series of distinct quests. Whether it's defeating an evil warlock or creating your own world as a god, Ord tells stories through simple series of words and word associations...
The Kingdom of Istyald
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 28/11/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Developer: @laBnF
Players: This is a single player game
The Kingdom of Istyald is a text adventure that takes you on a strange journey while also introducing Fantasy as a literary genre. As you play you not only meet fantastic creatures but meet its main tropes: Elves, Dwarves, Warlocks, Dragons. Whether...
Spitkiss
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 06/11/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative and Platform
Developer: @TripleTopping
Players: This is a single player game
Spitkiss is a game where you control a ball of saliva around the dangerous interior of different organs. The spittle is the carrier of a message of love and hope between people, but it can only get there if you precisely aim and navigate the different...
Welcome to Elk
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 17/09/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Developer: @TripleTopping
Players: This is a single player game
Welcome to Elk is an adventure game set on a fictional island. It tells true stories and tall tales, about the people who live there.
Pac-Man Geo
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Creative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Pac-Man Geo combines the classic pill-collecting arcade game with the real world. Unlike Pokemon Go, you don't run around outside, but use real world locations to make the mazes around which you are chased by ghosts.
Untold RPG
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Role-Playing
Developer: @Untold_RPG
Players: This is a single player game
Untold is an adventure game you play by reading text and choosing directions. It starts with you waking up on a beach and encounter a nomad who wants revenge on their enemies. Atmospheric sound and music extend the text experience further.
Inmost
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 11/10/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform
Developer: @HLGteam
Players: This is a single player game
Inmost is a running and jumping game with a strong emotional and atmospheric narrative. You uncover a dark and interconnected tale of three playable characters, each with their own unique gameplay styles. An adventurous young girl uncovering the past of...
Pode
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/06/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @HenchMangoon
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pode is a co-operative puzzle game, where two players on the same system can use different abilities to help each other unlock new areas of a beautiful world and advance a cute little story. It's a good game if you like combining abilities in clever...
Wreckout
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Developer: @huey_games
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Wreckout is a competitive sports game where you drive cars that catapult a ball into targets. Drawing on the classic Speedball games with a touch of Breakout, Micro Machines and Rocket League it offers a high octane and...
This Is Reality
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Narrative and Platform
Developer: @scribblescape
Players: This is a single player game
This Is Reality is a running, jumping and exploration game about a couple's relationship. You play as Liam and Lana, as they navigate the highs, lows and struggles of their relationship. The twist is that the state of the relationship affects what you...
A Blind Legend
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 07/04/2016
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure and Fighting
Developer: @ABlindLegend
Players: This is a single player game
A Blind Legend is an adventure game that is played without graphics. You use headphones to play this game. You play Edward Blake, a blind knight who is guided by his daughter Louise. You use the audio based interactions to find your way, avoid traps and...
Recompile
Rating: PEGI 12+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @phi6
Players: This is a single player game
Recompile is a platform game about hacking and exploring an expansive virtual world. Drawing inspiration from the Tron film, It's a combination of classic platform games where you slowly get more powers to advance further, and branching narrative games....
Frequency Missing
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 07/11/2018
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @UNIofSkovde
Players: This is a single player game
This is a point and click adventure. You play young radio reporter Patricia who has just started her first job at a radio station. However, strange things are happening. Richard, her friend who got her the job has vanished and someone is tampering with...
Killer Instinct (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 22/11/2013
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Fighting
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Killer Instinct is a fighting game series. The third installation released for free with the Xbox One launch. This built on Killer Instinct and Killer Instinct 2 and added more characters as time progressed.
Alt-Frequencies
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 16/05/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @AccidentalQ
Players: This is a single player game
Alt-Frequencies is an adventure game played by listen to a series of radio shows. It's a story about people stuck in a time loop without realising it and what you can do to save them.
The Gardens Between
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 20/09/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Developer: @TheVoxelAgents
Players: This is a single player game
The Gardens Between is a puzzle game set in dreamlike island gardens where you play as best friends Arina and Frendt. You work around the island levels collecting balls of light in your lantern, manipulating time to solve puzzles and removing obstacles....
No Straight Roads
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure and Rhythm
Developer: @MetronomikIncEN
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
No Straight Roads is a music-based, action-adventure game where indie rock band members Mayday & Zuke lead a musical revolution against the EDM (Electronic Dance Music) band. After being unfairly rejected in their audition to join No Straight Roads,...
There Is No Game
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 06/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @ThereIsNoGame
Players: This is a single player game
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension is a comedic adventure with a strange twist. From the outset the game’s narrator insists that there is no game to play. As you inevitably ignore his instruction you go on a journey through silly and unexpected video...
Spellbreak
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 03/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Shooting
Developer: @PlaySpellBreak
Players: You can play this with 42 players online
Spellbreak is an online magic battle like Fortnite, but this battle royale is fought with spells rather than guns. This means more varied gameplay and tactics as you master different elemental magic and cast powerful spell combinations.
Alt254
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 04/09/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Adventure and Role-Playing
Developer: @RenameStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Alt 254 is a minimalistic adventure game. Using just a few pixels, it boils down the elements of adventuring (exploration, chests, enemies and landscapes) to the absolute minimum visual representation.
Double Kick Heroes
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 11/12/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative, Fighting and Rhythm
Developer: @headbang_club
Players: This is a single player game
Double Kick Heroes is a heavy metal rhythm game. You tap buttons in time to the music to lead your band through the zombie wasteland. It revolves around the "double kicking" drumming technique. When you get this right you can speed up the music.
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Creative, Physically Active, Racing and Sports
Developer: @VelanVentures
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Mario Kart Live, Mario Kart Home Circuit) is a kart racing game with a difference. You play on the Switch but use it to control a real life Mario kart that races around...
Puyo Puyo Champions (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/05/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Puyo Puyo Champions (Puyo Puyo eSports in Japan) is the latest in a puzzle game series where you line up slime-like Puyo creatures who fall from the top of the screen. The trick is to rotate the groups of two, three, and four colours to line up with...
Champions of Shenga
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android and iOS
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Champions of Shenga is a fantasy card-battling game. You assemble a deck of creatures, equipment and spells in order to compete, but play is regulated via a special heart rate monitor designed to help players track and master their emotions while...
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/07/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is a role-playing game with puzzles and tasks that help 7-12 year olds deal with anxiety about different situations. You create a character in the game, explore dungeons and find treasure. Along the way characters offer...
KeyWe
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Developer: @StoneWheat
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
KeyWe is a puzzle game where you control two Kiwi birds running a postal service. At first the jobs are simple but as you complete more missions they start to become more complex. These tasks range from typing out telegrams, sending urgent messages and...
Inertial Drift
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 11/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @Level91Ent
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Inertial Drift is a racing game set in an alternative 90s retro future. Unusually, you use two sticks to control the direction with one stick and the drift with the other. Choose to either enter races or play the single player story mode, where you...
Timelie
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 21/05/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Puzzle and Turn-Based
Developer: @UrniqueStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Timelie is a stealth puzzle game played in a surreal world where a girl and a mysterious cat work together to escape a series of room patrolled by enemy robots. The novelty is that you can control and rewind time to help you solve each puzzle. This not...
Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 17/10/2019
Platforms: PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind is a storybook strategy game, set in the same world as King of Dragon Pass. Similar to games like HeroQuest, RuneQuest or God Wars but unusual because you make decisions at your leisure then see them play out through static...
King of Dragon Pass
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/01/1999
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @kingdragonpass
Players: This is a single player game
King of Dragon Pass is a fantasy strategy game where you control barbarian clans settling in the dangerous frontier region of Dragon Pass.
Drive Buy
Rating: PEGI 7+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting and Racing
Developer: @Glitchers
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Drive Buy is a vehicle combat game where you race around an arena world to make the most credits. The game is fast paced and strategic with a variety of power-ups, game modes, customisation, maps and the ability to play with others online. In this way...
Cosmic Express
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/05/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developer: @Draknek
Players: This is a single player game
Cosmic Express is a puzzle game where you plan a train route to collect the waiting passengers. Although the gamelooks super simple, as it progresses you have to also deal with different hazards and requirements for your route.
A Monsters Expedition
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Developer: @Draknek
Players: This is a single player game
A Monsters Expedition is a puzzle game where a monster finds creatures on an island and learns about the history of humanity. The puzzle is how to get from one island to the next.
Spin Rhythm XD
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Rhythm
Developer: @SpinRhythmGame
Players: This is a single player game
Spin Rhythm is a music-timing game where you match button presses and stick movement with music indicators on the screen. It's intuitive and fun. Once you get the hang of it it feels like making music.
Freedom Finger
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 27/09/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @widerightgames
Players: This is a single player game
Freedom Finger is a tongue in cheek game where you pilot a hand that can shoot from its middle finger. Along with the shooting, the game is music driven as you punch, grab, and pound enemies to smithereens. It takes the classic, Gradius and Nemisis...
Dodo Peak
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/09/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @DodoPeak
Players: This is a single player game
Dodo Peak is a platform game where you play as a dodo bird, rescuing your babies scattered across each level. The simple layout and clever design is reminiscent of the classic QBert game, and presents streamlined logic puzzles to solve. The hand crafted...
The Last Of Us II (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 19/06/2020
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Role-Playing, Shooting and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
The Last of Us Part II is an action-adventure game set five years after The Last of Us. You control two characters in a post-apocalyptic United States. Ellie is out for revenge after suffering a tragedy, and Abby is a...
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/12/2018
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Developer: @Draknek
Players: This is a single player game
A Good Snowman (Is Hard To Build) is puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen. On each level you must roll your snowballs to be the right size and then position them on each other to make a snowman.
Gears of War 5 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 07/11/2006, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Narrative and Shooting
Players: You can play with 3 players in the same room and up to 10 players online
Gears of War is shooting game about a conflict between humanity, the subterranean reptilian hominids known as the Locust Horde, and their mutated counterparts, the Lambent. It's a big brash game franchise with six games, a comic book series and five...
Among Us
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 16/11/2018
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Role-Playing and Strategy
Developer: @InnerSlothDevs
Players: You can play with 10 players in the same room and up to 10 players online
Among Us is a strategy game where crew-mates prepare their space ship for launch by completing tasks. However, one of the players is an impostor intent on sabotaging the ship and killing the crew. As the game progresses in real time the impostor...
Webbed
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @sbuggames
Players: This is a single player game
Webbed is a running and jumping game with a twist. You play a spider who can make webs, swing, climb and all the while create music as she goes. It follows the story of our happy little spider on an adventure to save her boyfriend from a big dumb...
Temtem
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 21/01/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Turn-Based
Developer: @playtemtem
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Temtem is a role-play game like Pokemon but played online against loads of other players. You collect and train Temtem creatures 9of which there are 161) while exploring the world. You encounter other creatures controlled by human or computer players...
Marvel's Avengers
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 04/09/2020
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Narrative
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Marvel's Avengers is an action-adventure game based on the Avengers. You control the heroes from a third-person perspective on your own or with friends. Together you assemble a team of heroes to take on the game's main storyline, where you must clear...
The Pathless
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, iOS and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @GiantSquidology
Players: This is a single player game
The Pathless is a mythic adventure about an archer and an eagle in a vast forest. You use timed button presses to use your bow and discover the open world, and unlock a mystical island and dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world.
Toy Story 3
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 30/09/2010
Platforms: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360
Genres: Narrative, Open World and Platform
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Toy Story 3 (Toy Story 3: The Video Game) is a running, jumping and exploration game from the developers who went on to make Disney Infinity. It is loosely based on the film and features the voice cast from the film.
Rogue Company
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 30/06/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Rogue Company is an online shooting game where players compete in teams to win rounds. You play as one of the elite agents of Rogue Company, each with their own individual set of skills, and go to war in a variety of different game modes.
Lifeline (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 16/04/2015, updated in 2016
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Developer: @3MinuteGames
Players: This is a single player game
Lifeline is a narrative adventure where you interact with am astronaut, Taylor via text messages. You help him return home after crashing his aircraft on a foreign planet.
Hotshot Racing
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Racing
Developer: @CurveDigital
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Hotshot Racing is a simple and fast racing game. You have to drift round corners, hit the apex on razor-sharp bends in coastal, jungle, alpine and Las Vegas desert environments.
Hyper Scape
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 11/08/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Hyper Scape is an online shooting game where players battle to be the last man standing. It's unusual because it integrates a feature that allows viewers of matches (on Twitch) to affect the game.
HyperBrawl Tournament
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 11/06/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres:
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
HyperBrawl Tournament is a sports combat game. Played in futuristic arenas you must smash, brawl and score your way to victory in relentless, high-adrenaline player versus player battles. It's like an updated version of the classic Speedball or...
Sonic Mania (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 23/06/1991, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, GameCube, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Developer: @sonic_hedgehog
Players: This is a single player game
Sonic the Hedgehog is a series of games staring an athletic blue hedgehog who runs, jumps and bounces his way around platform levels. Created as Sega's answer to Mario, Sonic is now on all modern video game platforms.
MeepCity
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 23/02/2016
Platforms: Android, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Creative, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @Alexnewtron
Players: You can play this with 50 players online
MeepCity is a popular Roblox Game. It's a social game where you role-play a character to interact with other people and customise their look. Like Toontown Online or the now defunct Club Penguin, MeepCity is an evolving virtual space for players to...
Jailbreak
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/08/2017
Platforms: Android, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Role-Playing and Strategy
Developer: @Badimo
Players: You can play this with 30 players online
Jailbreak is a popular Roblox game about escaping prison and getting away with various crimes. Based on the popular Prison Life and Madcity Roblox games, but adds a large open world in which you could drive vehicles, earn weapons and rob various...
Phantom Forces
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 31/08/0015
Platforms: Mac, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting and Strategy
Developer: @StyLis_Studios
Players: You can play this with 32 players online
Phantom Forces Roblox is a popular shooting game on Roblox. Phantom Forces isn’t available on iOS or Android. It's a shooting game played in an online arena in teams. Although it looks simple, it offers a high skill challenge similar to [link to...
Dreamscaper
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 08/04/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure and Fighting
Developer: @DreamscaperGame
Players: This is a single player game
Dreamscaper is an adventure where you control a woman's subconscious whilst she dreams. In the dreams you battle enemies with different surrealist abilities and weapons: finger guns, move the earth, control time, warp landscapes, many melee weapons and...
Locomotion
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/05/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @PolyFoxGaming
Players: This is a single player game
Locomotion is a puzzle game where you are a train chasing an alien who stole your gold. You control the direction of the train and the points. Each level is a puzzle where you need to find all the gold and hidden items. It's like a simplified western...
Panzer Paladin
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 21/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Developer: @TributeGames
Players: This is a single player game
Panzer Paladin is a platform game where you control Flame, a rescue service android who commands the Paladin robot Grit. They work together to defend against the dark Prince Ravenous and save Earth from being destroyed.
Unturned
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/07/2014
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Fighting, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @sdgnelson
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 100 players online
Unturned is a strategy survival game where you are in a Minecraft- and Roblox-style world filled with zombies. You have to carefully explore the world, gather resources and craft weapons. This might be to go in guns blazing, sneak around making use of...
As Dusk Falls
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure and Narrative
Developer: @Int_Night
Players: This is a single player game
As Dusk Falls is an interactive Drama following two families that intertwine with each other over thirty years, set in Arizona.
The Gunk
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 01/09/2021
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure and Open World
Developer: @ImageForm
Players: This is a single player game
The Gunk is an adventure game where you play as a pair of space explorers struggling for resources, until they find a new planet with new alien wildlife. Soon you realise that you need to save the planet from a Gunk parasite to free the world from...
Tell Me Why
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 27/08/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Developer: @DONTNOD_Ent
Players: This is a single player game
Tell Me Why is a narrative game following the story of twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan, as they unravel the truth about their childhood and why they were separated.
Everwild
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @RareLtd
Players: This is a single player game
Everwild is a fantasy adventure where characters work together to tame the wild and survive the night. Working with the indigenous creature of the land and with the power of ritual and combat you need to subdue nature by working with it.
Balan Wonderworld
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 26/03/2021
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Developer: @SquareEnix
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Balan Wonderworld is a running, jumping and exploration game where you control two characters Emma and Leo in the imaginary place called Wonderworld. The world is populated with people’s memories: happy helpful characters but also restless worries and...
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/11/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @NintendoUK
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is a running, exploring, puzzle game where you guide the Toad character to save Todette from the villain Wingo and retrieve the Power Stars on each level. You navigate puzzles and obstacles, fighting enemies to reach the...
Sloppy Forgeries
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Creative and Simulation
Developer: @SloppyForgeries
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Sloppy Forgeries is a painting game where you race an opponent at copying a famous art piece as quickly and accurately as possible. You win by having the largest percentage of paint in the correct areas. The game randomly selects a painting to copy and...
The Adventure Pals
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 03/04/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Developer: @MassiveMonsters
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
The Adventure Pals is a running, jumping and fighting game where you play duo Sparkles the giraffe and Mr. Rock. By making jumps, exploring levels and defeating enemies you try and stop Mr.B from capturing the elderly, including your dad, and turning...
Krunker
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 29/01/2019
Platforms: Web Browser
Developer: @Krunkerio
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Krunker (Krunker.io and Krunker Free) is a shooting game where you compete against online opponents in various maps. As you level up you unlock weapons that help you in the game. It's unusual because you play it in any web browser with no need to...
Drink More Glurp
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 06/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @DrinkMoreGlurp
Players: You can play with 20 players in the same room and up to 1 player online
Drink More Glurp is a wacky sports game where you take turns to play athletic challenges. The twist is that you have to control your over-long arms with a separate joystick and your body is a wheel you can roll along on if you lift your arms right up....
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 26/06/2014
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Developer: @YachtClubGames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is a retro-style platform game where you play as a Knight who's primary weapon is a shovel. It can either be used to attack enemies head-on, dig up treasure, or aim below while jumping to bounce on enemies. You can get...
Adopt Me!
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 14/07/2017
Platforms: Android, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @PlayAdoptMe
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Adopt Me is one of the most popular Roblox games. In a rudimentary way it simulates daily life. You can build a home, look after pets and make friends. Like many Roblox games, it's a combination of an avid community of players and...
The Messenger
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 30/08/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Developer: @SabotageQc
Players: This is a single player game
The Messenger is a platform game where you play as a young ninja after his village is attacked by a demon army. You must deliver a scroll, fighting enemies and pulling off complex acrobatic manoeuvres along the way. The game is inspired by the classic...
Bird Alone
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 15/06/2020
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @GeorgeBatch
Players: This is a single player game
Bird Alone is a narrative game where you befriend a bird. Your feathered companion encourages the conversation in the direction of real life worries while you make music, draw pictures and write poetry. It’s a slow game that unfolds in real time with...
Thousand Threads
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 30/07/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @ThreadsGame
Players: This is a single player game
Thousand Threads is an open world game of consequences. You are free to interact with the world, animals and people however you like, give, take, save, kill, inform, hide, befriend, betray. But how you do this will have ongoing and unavoidable...
Far From Noise
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 14/11/2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS
Genres: Narrative
Developer: @GeorgeBatch
Players: This is a single player game
Far From Noise is a narrative game where you play a car balancing on the edge of a cliff. You meet multiple animals that act as spiritual guides and discuss what it means to balance between life and death. When talking, you get the choice of two phrases...
Pac-Man Party Royale
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 21/10/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Pac-Man Party Royale is a four player version of Pac-Man. You must be the last man standing to win. You eat pellets to speed up and aim to the Super Pellet first to send opponents and ghosts running. There's a twist though, each opponent you eat turns...
Rogue Legacy (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 27/06/2013, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Developer: @CellarDoorGames
Players: This is a single player game
Rogue Legacy is a dungeon fighting game. Each time you die you go back to the start. However, you are resurrected as a character with different challenges: colourblind, dyslexic, a dwarf and so on. You can use gold, collected form previous lives, to...
Eastward
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Role-Playing
Developer: @PixpilGames
Players: This is a single player game
Eastward is a adventure game about a miner who meets a young girl in a secret facility. Together you explore the decaying cities and discover the truth about her origins and what’s behind the creatures who are destroying everything. The narrative is...
Boomerang Fu
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 13/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @BoomerangFu
Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room
Boomerang Fu is a fighting game where you control small food-like characters. Using your boomerang the aim is to slice the other players with ranged or melee attacks. You can use a large range of power-ups such as: explosive boomerangs, disguise and...
Infernium
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 05/04/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Infernium is an adventure horror game where you need to carefully consider your strategy to progress through the non-linear interlocking chapters. Exploring the world, avoiding getting caught by the ethereal enemies and solving puzzles uncovers a story...
Wildfire
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 26/05/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @WildfireGame
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Wildfire is a running, jumping and hiding game where you hide from (and distract) enemies to get through levels and complete missions. You have specific powers to start fires, freeze water, and move earth that offer different ways to solve the puzzle of...
Degrees of Separation
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/02/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @DofsGame
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Degrees of Separation is a running and jumping game where you control two characters from different seasons, Ember and Rime. Each has different abilities to change the environment and help you to progress: freezing water, melting ice and the like.
Creature in the Well
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/09/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @FlightSchoolHQ
Players: This is a single player game
Creature in the Well is a pinball-inspired fighting game that reimagines the ball bouncing fun of Arkanoid. You play the last remaining robot who ventures deep into a desert mountain to restore power to an ancient facility and save the village that...
De Blob (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/09/2008, updated in 2011
Platforms: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Creative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
De Blob is a platform-puzzle game where you explore cartoon-style urban landscapes to recolour the city. You play a sponge-like creature that can collect colour paint and take it to different locations to turn the buildings and landscape features to...
Singled Out
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 03/07/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Developer: @crowbarska
Players: This is a single player game
Singled Out is a spot the difference shooting game. Like the classic Guess Who game you have seconds to identify your target in a crowd. Make sure you only shoot the character matching the eyes, nose and mouth clues and you score points. The quicker you...
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/04/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Fighting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @LandfallGames
Players: This is a single player game
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (know as TABS) is a fighting game where you choose different armies and troops to battle each other in an automatic simulation that models their offensive and defensive abilities. Once setup the fight is largely...
The Swapper
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 30/05/2013, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform
Developer: @FacePalmGames
Players: This is a single player game
The Swapper is a platform-adventure where you explore a damaged space station to collect orbs that open doors into other areas. Unusually, you can clone your character multiple times and then control it to help you solve puzzles and progress in various...
Ghost Grab
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Ghost Grab is a puzzle game where you shoot a beam of light at ghosts to chain them together before popping them to score points. It's simple to start with but soon gives way to a frantic score-attack challenge with it's unique way to score points.
Extreme Exorcism
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/10/2015
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @RipstoneGames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Extreme Exorcism is a running, jumping and fighting game set in a series of haunted locations. The graphics are retro but the gameplay has a novel twist. Each enemy ghost you hunt mimics your moves on previous lives.
Breath of Light
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/03/2015
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Breath of Light is a meditative puzzle game where you guide the breath of light through sand and water. With no score or time-limits and with all levels unlocked from the start, the focus is on relaxation and breathing rather than the challenge and its...
Children of Morta
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 03/09/2019, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Narrative and Role-Playing
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Children of Morta is an adventure game about a family of heroes, each with different abilities and enhancements. You battle enemies and bosses while exploring dungeons within the cavern of Mount Morta and must avoid the corruption as it spreads.
Sneaky Sasquatch
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 30/07/2019
Platforms: Mac and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @rac7games
Players: This is a single player game
Sneaky Sasquatch is an adventure game where you sneak around in campsites and try to find food from coolers, picnic baskets without getting caught. There's a large variety of things to do. For example you can race, play golf, ski, find buried treasure,...
The Falconeer
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 10/11/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Developer: @TheFalconeer
Players: This is a single player game
The Falconeer is an action game where you play a pilot who flies a weaponised falcon through dramatic locations. You battle the rivalling factions to uncover the secrets of long-forgotten gods and ancestors. Although the game-play is all flying and...
Embr
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 21/05/2020
Platforms: PC and Stadia
Genres: Action, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @EmbrGame
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Embr, is an action fire-fighting game. You join the Emergency Services Revolution and respond to fires to make money, climbing the ladder of success and score points.
Haven
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Fighting, Narrative and Open World
Developer: @thegamebakers
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Haven is an adventure about companionship and exploration in space. As star-crossed lovers Yu and Kay, you escape to a forgotten planet to stay together and set up home against the odds. You explore the world around you, able to glide over the plains,...
Carto
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Developer: @SunheadGames
Players: This is a single player game
Carto is an adventure puzzle game that is unusual in letting you rearrange the map tiles while you are playing. This enables you to access new areas of the world previously impossible to get to. This can be as simple as redirecting a river out of your...
Fuser
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Rhythm
Players: You can play this with 12 players online
Fuser is a rhythm game where you are a DJ at a large concert. You can combine four songs from a list of records. Each of the records has four tracks represented by colours and instruments: drums, guitar or vocals. You build up an evolving mix of music...
Rainswept
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 01/02/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Rainswept is an adventure game where you investigate a murder with the themes of love, relationships and unresolved trauma.
Maquette
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Maquette is a puzzle game played in a series of nested identical worlds. What you do in the larger world effects things in the smaller one, and so on. Every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.
Mana Spark
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 22/12/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Mana Spark is a fantasy adventure where you explore a Tolkein-esque dungeon to fight smart enemies that will plan and collaborate between themselves to defeat you. It's a game you play over and over, improving not only your skill but equipment and...
Townscaper
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 30/06/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @OskSta
Players: This is a single player game
Townscaper is a town building toy. You pick colours from the range available and click to put down a house in the sea. As you continue to add houses of different colours the game automatically orientates the architecture for you.
The Eternal Cylinder
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative, Fighting, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
The Eternal Cylinder is a strategy game where you survive by evolving your creatures to adapt to the environment. Your herd explore a strange world filled with exotic lifeforms and environments. All the while a menacing firey cylinder rolls towards you.
It Takes Two
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
It Takes Two is a running, jumping and exploring game that tells a story of a young girl, Rose, who's parents are divorcing. The girl creates two dolls to represent her parents, which unexpectedly come to life. The game proceeds to share the girls...
Rocket Arena
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 14/07/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: You can play this with 6 players online
Rocket Arena is online shooting game where two teams of three battle each other. The twist is that you never die and leave the action. To win you use your characters unique rocket attacks and abilities to champion the other team.
Lost in Random
Rating: PEGI 12+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Lost in Random is an adventure where you play an anthropomorphic dice and a young girl called Even. In her world, when she turns 12 she must roll a magical die to be assigned a region to live in and a life to live. But seeing her sister go through this...
Through the Darkest of Times
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 27/05/2020
Platforms: Android and PC
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Through the Darkest of Times is a strategy game that conveys the sombre mood of the dark period of history between January 1933 and May 1945. With interactive drama, it tells the story and the struggles of average people living in the 3rd Reich.
Rayman Origins
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/11/2011, updated in 2013
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and Xbox 360
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Rayman Origins is platform game where you run, jump, swing and attack your way through fantasy cartoon levels. It stands out because of the strong characters and variety of different enemies ranging in difficulty.
Grand Slam Tennis (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/06/2009, updated in 2009
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Grand Slam Tennis is a tennis game. You choose one of the 23 real tennis players or create your own. You can play either singles or doubles. Unlike other tennis games, this focuses on hitting the ball with a gesture via the Wii Remote. This extends the...
Sonic Racing (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 23/02/2010
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Racing
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room and up to 12 players online
Team Sonic Racing is the latest kart racing game in a series featuring Sonic the Hedgehog and other Sega characters. Like Mario Kart, you control one of 15 characters in races using fantasy sports cars, while performing tricks,...
Rayman Legends
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 29/07/2013, updated in 2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
Rayman Legends is a platform game, the sequel to Rayman Origins, where you get sucked into a painting that takes you to a fantasy world with all sorts of creative running and jumping challenges.
Shaun White's Snowboarding (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/11/2008
Platforms: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and iOS
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Shaun White's Snowboarding is a series of snowboard racing games that focus on recreating, move for move, the downhill and halfpipe snowbound experience. You race down a mountain landscape steering with intuitive controls and performing point-earning...
Wii Party
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/07/2010
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Racing
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Wii Party is a party game that offers a variety of challenges that each use the Wii Remote motion controls. These 80 mini game challenges are organised through three sections of the game: Party Games, House Party Games, and Pair Games.
Wii Party U
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/10/2013
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Racing
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Wii Party U is a collections of games to play with families in the same room. Different modes suite different groups and ages but are all light hearted fun and make use of the Wii U Gamepad in creative ways.
Game & Wario
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/06/2013
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Rhythm
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
Game & Wario is a series of small games designed for families to enjoy. Like NintendoLand it shows off the different sorts of game you can play on the Wii U not possible on other systems. Because of this the quality and depth...
New Super Mario Bros. U
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/11/2012, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Creative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
New Super Mario Bros. U is platform game where you play with 4 main players (and an optional assistant player) to traverse from one side of the level to the other. Along with the usual running, jumping, stomping and collecting you are racing other...
Fling Smash
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/11/2010
Platforms: Nintendo Wii
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Fling Smash is an action throwing game where you direct a ball-shaped hero by flicking the controller.
Super Mario 3D World
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/11/2013, updated in 2013
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Super Mario 3D World is a platform game you can play with up to 4-players in the same place. While all Mario games are good for families, this co-operative and competitive play makes it great for families and friends to play together.
Yoshi's Wooly World
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/06/2015, updated in 0017
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Yoshi's Woolly World is a platform game made of knitting. You explore, jump and run your way around, solving puzzles and collecting items to complete each stage.
Worms Rumble
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 32 players online
Worms Rumble is a multiplayer game where 32 worm characters try and shoot each other. It takes the usual turn-based Worms formula in a real time direction complete with a battle royale mode like Fortnite.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 23/11/2011
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is an adventure game in the Zelda series. You play Link and navigate the floating island of Skyloft before diving down to the land below it. While the island locations and flight drew from Wind Waker, the combat and...
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 19/11/2006, updated in 2016
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is an adventure game in the Zelda series. As with the other games, you play Link, who must prevent Hyrule from being engulfed by corruption from a parallel dimension. Unlike other Zelda games, you can take the form...
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 24/03/2003, updated in 2013
Platforms: GameCube and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is an adventure game in the Zelda series. This one is set on a group of islands in a vast sea, and follows Link as he attempts to save his sister from the sorcerer Ganon. This soon develops into a struggle to find the...
Adventures With Anxiety
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 10/12/2019
Platforms: Web Browser
Genres: Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Adventures With Anxiety is a mini-adventure where you play, as a red dog who is the inner protective voice of a young person. Your role is to guard them against danger, although as you do you cause them anxiety in different ways.
Toodee and Topdee
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Toodee and Topdee is a platform puzzle game where you control two characters to complete single-screen levels. The twist is that each character exists in a different plane. Toodee is a top-down block-pushing world, while Topdee is side-on platforming....
Pianista: The Legendary Virtuoso
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/10/2018
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Rhythm
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pianista: The Legendary Virtuoso is a rhythm game where you play classical piano music by pressing buttons in time with each note. This starts easily buy builds up so you are playing complex pieces of music from a range of composers.
Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 28/10/2015, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Players: This is a single player game
Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise is a puzzle game where you infiltrate a spy hideaway to stop an evil plan. Each location is full of retro futuristic contraptions, hidden gizmos, gadgets and clever logic based puzzles.
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 29/08/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Shooting, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a chess-like strategy game where you control cartoon rabbits (the Rabbids) and Nintendo characters in turn-based battles with fantastical weapons through four different worlds.
Conduct Together (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/12/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Strategy
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Conduct Together is a strategy game where you control toy trains along the overlapping train tracks. Each train can be started and stopped with a specific button. Other buttons change different points. The aim is to transport the people from one...
Apex Legends
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 04/02/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World and Shooting
Developer: @Respawn
Players: You can play this with 60 players online
Apex Legends is a shooting game where you work with two other players landing on an island and searching for weapons and supplies. You mission is to defeat the other 50 players to be the last team standing.
Red Dead Redemption (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 18/05/2010, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 32 players online
Red Dead Redemption is a series of open world adventures with a wild west theme. The rich world offers many things to do along with a main story line. It's this living breathing world that attracts players, both in its diversity and beauty.
Gang Beasts
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/12/2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Gang Beasts is an over the top brawling game where you play wobbly characters who kick, throw, push, pull and pummel up to seven other rivals to win. The game models real physics so you have to work with the grappling and jelly-like bodies to both get...
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/09/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative and Platform
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a running and jumping game where you play different farmyard animals trying to get to the end of the level. The twist is that it's you and your friends who build the levels as you play, placing deadly traps before trying to...
Sable
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Open World
Players: This is a single player game
Sable is an adventure game where you play a young girl, Sable, alone in the world, but bravely exploring ancient monuments, ruined architecture, and fallen ships to uncover her place in it.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 20/12/2017
Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Open World and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Playunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is a battle-royale shooting game where you take on 100 players. Like a more realistic version of Fortnite, you collect supplies and out strategise your opponents to become the last person standing.
Cross Code
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 09/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
CrossCode is a retro-inspired role-play where players control a mute character who has lost their memory called Lea. The sci-fi story contains fast-paced battles, puzzles and quests as well as a wide range of abilities and equipment to level up and...
Exo One
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Exo One is a surreal exploration game where you guide a small transforming object to drift, flow and soar across enigmatic landscapes with a gravity based movement system. The game aims to create an out of body other-worldly experience with atmospheric,...
Way To The Woods
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Xbox
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Way to the Woods is an adventure game where you play a fawn and a deer trying to survive their long journey home after human civilization has collapsed. Interacting with the world and exploring both urban and barren landscapes leads you to discover the...
Gerrrms
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Fighting, Platform and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Gerrrms (yes, Germs with three r's) is a light-hearted infection themed fighting game. You control one of 12 tiny germs and fight for dominance within the human body. However, you can only move around by swinging from hooks inside a corporeal arena....
Fledgling Heroes
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/05/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Platform and Rhythm
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Fledgeling Heroes is a fun flying game where you tap or press to guide a part through landscapes and collect coins. You can swim, sprint and soar, defeat dastardly dragons, unlock wondrous new worlds, and explore limitless levels in the Lab.
Kissy Kissy
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Platform
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Kissy Kissy! is a running-around game where you build defences against getting kissed by the grannies. You play Tiger and Bee, onesie-wearing grandchilden who don't want to be kissed
Elsinore
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/07/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Elsinore is a mystery-adventure set in Shakespeare's Hamlet. You play Elsinore who repeats the same four days as she tries to find a way to avoid the tragedy that lies before her.
The Long Dark
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 22/09/2014
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @HinterlandGames
Players: This is a single player game
The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive. Through exploring, crafting and fighting you must look after your body...
Rust
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/02/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative, Fighting, Open World, Shooting and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 250 players online
Rust (also, Rust: Console Edition) is an online survival game set the wilderness. You explore, gather and craft materials to manage hunger, thirst, health and protection. The preparation is to ward off the threat of bears, wolves and (more commonly)...
The Forest
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 30/05/2014
Platforms: PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Forest is a survival horror game where you are the only passenger to live after a plane crash. You explore a mysterious forest to find food, shelter and safety but soon have to battle strange cannibalistic people.
Eliza
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 10/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Narrative and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Eliza is an interactive narrative where you play Evelyn, a young woman burnt out from the pressures of a high-tech job. She now works for a virtual counselling service called Eliza, that guides counsellors to provide the ideal response to patients.
Opus Magnum
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/12/2017
Platforms: PC
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Opus Magnum is a puzzle game about assembling machines to convert spherical chemicals into different compounds. Each challenge can be tackled by creating different machine configurations, and each is awarded points on how compact, quick and efficient...
Blankos Block Party
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Creative and Open World
Players: You can play this with 60 players online
Blankos Block Party is an online game where you collect and create custom characters based on toy figurines. Along with the built-in modes of racing, platforming and shooting, you can also plug and play your own levels in a similar fashion how [link to...
Ooblets
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/07/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Ooblets is a farming and creature collecting game where you tend your animals, explore the world and bring home new wild Ooblet animals from the wild. You can then battle in turn-based dance-offs.
Lake
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Lake is a narrative adventure where you play Meredith Weiss on a career break in 1986 while she returns to her hometown and ends up delivering the mail. As you talk to locals, meet up with old school friends and even fan a few romantic flames from your...
LittleBigPlanet (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/10/2008
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita
Genres: Action, Creative and Platform
Developer: @MediaMolecule
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Little Big Planet is a series of games staring the Sackboy character. They offer a multiplayer running and jumping adventure, but also enable to player to substantially edit their character and eventually make their own levels.
Scribblenauts (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/09/2009
Platforms: Android, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Scribblenauts is a series of puzzle games where you solve by typing the names of everyday objects so they appear in the game and let you progress. What's surprising is the sheer number of items included in the game. This means you can solve problems in...
Levelhead
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/06/2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Creative and Platform
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Levelhead is a game making game where you construct levels to train a delivery robot. The simple drag and drop level design develops into as complex a level maker as you want. Create simple running and jumping levels or something huge, puzzling and...
Twelve a Dozen
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 05/10/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Players: This is a single player game
Twelve a Dozen (originally called just, Twelve) is a running and jumping game where you solve mathematical based logic problems to help Dot save her family. While many games use learning as a gate to the reward of some fun, Twelve integrates the maths...
DayZ
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 03/07/0019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Shooting and Simulation
Players: You can play this with 60 players online
Day Z (DayZ) is a post-apocalyptic open world survival game. The population are infected with an unknown virus and you play as one of the few who are immune. You fight other survivors for limited resources and weapons. However If you die there are no...
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 09/11/1996, updated in 2020
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Developer: @ToysForBob
Players: This is a single player game
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is the latest game in the Crash Bandicoot series, where you play a genetically enhanced bandicoot called Crash and run, jump and bash your way through levels while avoiding hazards.
Deep Time Walk
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/12/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Open World and Physically Active
Players: This is a single player game
Deep Time Walk is a game where you go for a walk as you listen to a history of the Earth that's tied to each step. The game calculates your speed and distance to match your real-world progress and translates it to a journey across 4.6bn years of time,...
Colt Canyon
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 16/06/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Developer: @Retrific
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Colt Canyon is a pixel-styled shooting game where you play a cowboy, whose mission is to save his kidnapped partner from the bandits and get back home. Players shoot their way through a hostile canyon using their guns and TNT. Hidden treasures and...
This Means Warp
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Shooting and Strategy
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
This Means Warp is a strategy combat game where four players work together to run a spaceship as you travel the solar system. Together you have to manage the ship, repair damage and take charge of shooting enemies. It's frantic battling and a lot of fun...
Street Power Football
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Rhythm, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Street Power Football (Street Power Soccer) is a rhythm and timing game where you compete in a range of competitions that require timing, quick reactions and finesse. Some of these are a pure rhythm action or aiming challenge while others offer a full...
Journey to the Savage Planet
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 28/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Platform and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Journey to the Savage Planet is an adventure-shooting game played from a first-person perspective. You explore a planet to catalogue various alien flora and fauna and collect the resources you need to craft items and upgrades like jetpacks and grappling...
Destruction AllStars
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Fighting and Sports
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Destruction AllStars is a futuristic combat-destruction sports game. You compete in teams in an arena battle. Players aim to destroy other players cars or fight hand to hand on foot.
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @MediaMolecule
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is running and jumping game. It's a spinoff of the LittleBigPlanet series and follows Sackboy and three friends as they explore, collect and battle their way through a fantasy world.
Returnal
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Returnal is a sci-fi adventure played in repeating rounds that slowly change the world and your character. You are a pilot stranded on a mysterious planet and must investigate and fight through the world to both survive and solve the repeating problem.
Dustborn
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Dustborn is a road-trip adventure set in America 2030 where all information has been lost. You and your misfit friends must cross this divided world to deliver a package from California to Nova Scotia. It's unusual not only because of the setting but...
Waking
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 18/06/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Fighting and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Waking is a world exploration game where you play a character in a coma. You enter their dreams, The Mindscape, in the recesses of their mind and follow voices calling you home.
Just Die Already
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Simulation
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Just Die Already is a sandbox game where you play a retiree in a near future where people aren’t having any children and pensions funds are drying up. It's an intentionally absurd set-up of old people fending for themselves in a world that wants them...
Otterman Empire
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 02/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
The Otterman Empire is a fun shooting game where you battle anthropomorphic characters in Splatoon-like arena encounters.
Jump Rope Challenge
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/06/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Jump Rope Challenge is a virtual skipping game where you hold the Switch controllers like rope handles and skip. The game displays an on-screen counter and you can play with another person at the same time as you compete for a high score.
Invisible Inc
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/05/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting, Shooting, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Invisible Inc is a tactical adventure where you direct espionage agents in covert missions to acquire resources and support to relocate your agency's computer system to a safe haven within a limited amount of time.
Lego Super Mario
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/08/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Physically Active and Platform
Players: This is a single player game
Lego Super Mario is a running and jumping game you play in the real world with an electronic Mario toy. A series of Lego sets provide special bricks that the Mario toy can detect. The timer starts as you move the toy through the level and trigger...
Little Devil Inside
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Open World
Players: This is a single player game
Little Devil Inside is an adventure in a wilderness. Like Cuphead it has a visual style like American cartoons of the 1930s. You explore the world, encounter giant monsters and wield impressive swords. The adventure takes you to...
Space Crew
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @CurveDigital
Players: This is a single player game
Space Crew is a strategy game where you use a team of characters to control a spaceship and explore the galaxy. Unlike other space flight games, you don't directly control your craft but get your crew to look after different aspects of the mission. It's...
Battloon
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/02/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Battloon is a colourful battle game, where each of the four players controls a balloon-like creature. You try and bounce the other players into spikes on the arena walls by puffing out air to propel yourself in a direction.
Roki
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @PolyTreehouse
Players: This is a single player game
Röki is a Scandinavian folklore point-and-click style adventure game where you play Tove on a journey to save her family. As you help her to come to terms with loss, you explore deep into a snowy fairytale landscape with strange locations and creatures.
Trash Sailors
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Trash Sailors is a hand-drawn sailing game, where you control the group of castaways after a tsunami flooded the world. You navigate the ocean and build your raft with trash nearby which you can recycle into fuel, raft spare parts, and even weapons....
Twin Mirror
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Twin Mirror is an narrative adventure where you play Sam, a 33-year old man recovering from a recent break-up who returns to his hometown for the funeral of his best friend. As you explore the world and interact with different characters, a twisting,...
Goodbye Volcano High
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Goodbye Volcano High is a high school coming of age adventure set in a world of anthropomorphic dinosaur characters. You play as band members, non-binary Fang and best friend Trish. Then there's student council president Naomi, and Fang's brother Naser....
Cosmic Defenders
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 11/03/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Cosmic Defenders is team shooting game about a group of unconventional superheroes. Players cooperate to protect the galaxy in the Story, Survival and Versus Mode with up to four players with unique abilities.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 31/10/2003, updated in 2020
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox and Xbox One
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a running and jumping game based on the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. It's an original story where you defend Bikini Bottom from an invasion of robots.
Cloudpunk
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 23/04/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Cloudpunk is a cyberpunk adventure where you play Rania, a delivery driver for the illegal company Cloudpunk. You navigate the city in a flying car to get to your destination in time. Sometimes you are transporting people and sometimes it's a package....
Bugsnax
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Bugsnax is a whimsical adventure where you track, trick, catch and eat anthropomorphic food in all shapes and sizes. But as you literally become what you eat. It's silly puzzling fun from the creators of Octodad.
Stray
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Stray is a game about a cat lost in a futuristic city where robots live. YOu guide your feline friend in and out of buildings, across roads and generally poke your nose in to see what is going on.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is an adventure about a young girl who travels to an abandoned village in the hope of finding a sacred mountain shrine. To get there she must face and overcome the spirits of the past and discover the secrets of this overgrown...
Severed
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 26/04/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Severed is a dungeon adventure game where you wake up in a strange place, dazed and confused your family has been taken and with a severed arm. You embark on a perilous journey to find them and return home.
Oceanhorn (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 14/11/2013
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, iOS and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Oceanhorn is an adventure game series that brings Zelda-style exploration, battling and dungeon solving to non-Nintendo platforms. You play as a boy on a quest to find his lost father and defeat the living fortress, Oceanhorn. You explore dungeons,...
Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 16/01/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Blossom Tales is an adventure games where, like the Zelda series you explore an enchanted world, battle enemies and solve dungeons. It's a reimagining of the classic Zelda game, Link+to+the+Past.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/11/1991
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is an adventure game in a long "Zelda" series. Like the other games, you play Link, who must defeat an evil force in the land of Hyrule. You do this by exploring the world, killing spawning enemies and finding a...
Disintegration
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/06/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Disintergration is a sci-fi shooting game, from some of the developers behind Halo and XCom, that combines first-person combat and real-time battlefield strategy.
Dirt (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/01/2007, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure and Racing
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Dirt 5 is the latest game in a series of the extreme sports racing game. Like Forza Horizon or the older MotorStorm games, the series focuses on exuberance and party atmosphere rather than just...
Dirt Rally (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/07/1998, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Racing
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Dirt Rally is a series of racing games, originally called Colin McRae Rally. They simulate the experience of dangerous and perilous rally stages. You drive from an in-car experience and are given spoken directions from your co-pilot. It's thrilling but...
Lumino City
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 02/11/2014
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Lumino City is a puzzle adventure game in a hand made world. This is not unusual for a video game, but this world was literally made by hand in a physical studio and then filmed. It creates a unique experience that feels like you are poking around a...
Framed (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/11/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Framed is a puzzle adventure where you re-arrange panels of an animated comic book to change the outcome and timeline of the story. With a noir-detective look, the puzzles start simply but soon get complex.
Destroy All Humans! (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 24/06/2005, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Destroy All Humans! is an adventure game series that parodies Cold War-era alien invasion films. With open-world like a bit like Grand Theft Auto, you play the alien Crypto, tasked to gather DNA from humans and explore the open-world levels to do this....
Outward
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 26/03/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Outward is a fantasy adventure focused on an ordinary character surviving against the odds. There's a focus on realism rather than superpowers or magical abilities. You have to look after your warmth, hunger, fatigue, illness, and thirst as well as the...
Ni no Kuni (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 09/12/2010, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Ni no Kuni is a series of adventure video games where you play a young character with an important mission. The first games follow Oliver, and his journey to another world to save his mother. The sequel, Revenant Kingdom, follows Evan Pettiwhisker...
Forgotton Anne
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/05/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform
Players: This is a single player game
Forgotton Anne (Forgotten Anne) is a hand-animated adventure that combines cartoon (Ghibli-inspired) storytelling with running and jumping puzzles. You play as Anne, the enforcer who keeps order in the Forgotten Lands, as she sets out to squash a...
PiAwk
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
PiAwk is an adventure you explore as PiAwk, a little bird-like creature that is both a little awkward and shy, but also bold and curious. As you interact with the environment, architecture, landscape and other characters you realised you are enclosed in...
Naiad
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Players: This is a single player game
Naiad is a gentle adventure game where exploration is fuelled not by extreme distances, dangers or enemies, but by the simple joy of floating in rivers and pools. As a story about nature unfolds you control a nymph-like character who swims through...
Toem
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Toem is a small adventure about helping peoeple. You play a small figure travelling through black and white, hand drawn, scandinavian-style landscapes. As you encounter characters and architectural environments you hear about the problems people have...
Total War (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 13/06/2000, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
The Total War series are strategic turn-based war games. Each game has a different historical or fanstasy setting where multiple armies battle and compete for terriotry. You can win by military force, religion, diplomacy, espionage and economics.
Ete
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Ete (été, which means summer) is a gentle adventure where you discover memories by exploring with your camera, music and paint. The screen starts almost entirely blank, and as you move around and interact you create vivid colourful memories.
Beyond Eyes
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 04/08/2015
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Beyond Eyes is game about a Blind girl, Rae, who uses her senses to visualize the world around her. As you play, the game only shows you parts of the world you can hear. This means you can see immediatley around you, and further away if things are...
GPS Pong
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 28/02/2015
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Action, Physically Active and Sports
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
GPS Pong is a game of retro pong played in the real world by running and walking to move your bat. Once you have set up the game on two smartphones you specify how much space you have and then move to position your bat to return the virtual ball to the...
Ingress Prime
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/12/2013
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Physically Active, Role-Playing, Simulation and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 1000 players online
Ingress (also known as Ingress Prime) is an adventure game that uses your smartphone's GPS to locate you in a game world that correlates with reality. You interact with virtual "portals" located near statues, monuments, civic and historic buildings in...
Circuit Superstars
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Racing
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 12 players online
Circuit Superstars is a simple racing game viewed from above. Up to four players control a car and race around a complex track. You can see what's coming which makes it easier but must work with the real car physics to get across the line first. What...
Formula Retro Racing
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Racing and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Formula Retro Racing is a retro 90's arcade racing game. This Virtua Racing style combines the simplicity of visuals and racing style with some proper attention to the skill needed to get to the front of the grid.
Art Of Rally
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 23/09/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @FunSelektor
Players: This is a single player game
Art of Rally is a racing game that focuses on stylised off road motion from the creator of Absolute Drift. Slide through the hand-crafted stages set in Finland, Japan and Spain with varying weather and time of day.
Absolute Drift
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/08/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Racing, Simulation and Sports
Players: This is a single player game
Absolute Drift is a skill-based racing game where the focus is on accuracy and elegance rather than just speed. You aim is to use a controlled skid to get around corners with the perfect racing line and score more points.
Spiritfarer
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 18/08/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Platform and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Spiritfarer is a boat building exploration game. Unusually though, you play Stella, ferry master to the deceased and the boat you manage takes them to the next life.
Before I Forget
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Developer: @3foldgames
Players: This is a single player game
Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory. Examine faded...
Grand Theft Auto (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 01/01/1997, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 30 players online
Grand Theft Auto is a series of action-adventure game where you travel around one large location taking part in different criminal activities: pulling off heists, with lots of shooting and stealing and driving a variety of cars and other vehicles.
The Simpsons Hit and Run
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 16/11/2003
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2 and Xbox
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Racing
Players: This is a single player game
The Simpsons: Hit & Run is adventure game based on the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.
Aqua Lungers
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 27/05/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Racing
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Aqua Lungers is a fighting and collecting game where you control a diver that can dash and swim through underwater levels. You are racing to collect more treasure, faster than your opponents and get it back to your base.
Runbit
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/01/2018
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Open World and Physically Active
Players: This is a single player game
Runbit (and its sister app Map Hunt) is a treasure hunt game you play by running or walking in the real world. As you run a map is displayed of your area with stars to collect on pavements, moving monsters to outwit and avoid and moving animals to track...
Orna
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 17/06/2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Physically Active, Role-Playing, Simulation and Turn-Based
Players: You can play this with 6 players online
Orna: The GPS RPG, as its longer name suggests, is a combination of role-playing adventure and real-world (geocache-style) treasure hunt. You select a character at the start of the game, and head out on a walk. As you do you can encounter creatures,...
Two Point Hospital
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/02/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Creative, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Two Point Hospital is a light-hearted healthcare simulator. You take charge of a hospital, similar to Theme Hospital, where you must construct and maintain wards, machines and staff.
Planet Coaster
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 17/11/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Planet Coaster Console Edition is a pleasure park construction and management game. It draws on games like Theme Park and RollerCoaster Tycoon. You build different theme park rides and roller-coasters in considerable detail, to score design points and...
Zoo Tycoon (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 17/10/2001, updated in 2017
Platforms: Nintendo DS, PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Creative, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 4 players online
Zoo Tycoon is a zoo simulator series where you take charge of a zoo business, build the park, care for animals and attack visitors with attractions. You can build, expand, and upgrade the zoo by purchasing animals, creating suitable animal habitats, and...
The Walk
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 11/12/2013
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Physically Active
Players: This is a single player game
The Walk is an adventure you play by walking in the real world. A device detonates in Inverness station, and you have a package that could save the world. To stay alive, you’ll need to walk the length of the UK.
Run An Empire
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 22/08/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Physically Active and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Run an Empire is a combination of real-world running and a strategy game where you battle other players for land and resources. Once setup you run around your neighbourhood, which in the game is divided into small hexagons. As you encircle areas in the...
Zombies Run
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 27/02/2012, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Physically Active
Players: This is a single player game
Zombies Run is a combination of fitness app, radio play and zombie game. You choose the distance on the app, run in the real world and the narrative plays in your headphones.
Jump King
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/05/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: This is a single player game
Jump King is a high stakes jumping game, where you control a character ascending a series of increasingly spread out platforms. You can control how high each jump is by the length of your button press. This enables you to judge difficult and long jumps...
Atomicrops
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 28/05/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: This is a single player game
Atomicrops is a farming game where you also have to defend your crops from mutant attackers. It sounds like a strange combination, but the shooting and the tending work well to counterbalance each other.
Subdefuge
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/03/2017
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Open World, Puzzle, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 10 players online
Subterfuge is a strategy game played with human opponents. The game is designed to be played over a week or so, to give players time to talk between goes. This encourages players to team up, trick or double-cross other players to get them to make the...
Milkmaid of the Milky Way
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 22/08/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a puzzle game where you play a milkmaid Ruth in a remote farm, who is kidnapped by a spaceship. It sounds strange, but what unfolds is a story about boredom, parental expectation and the desire for change.
Arise: A Simple Story
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 03/12/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Piccolo_Studio
Players: This is a single player game
Arise: A Simple Story is a narrative game about an old man living in a pre-agricultural tribe. He has just been cremated and as get travels to the next life, begins a pilgrimage of revisiting memories of his life.
Lair Of The Clockwork God
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 21/02/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Platform
Developer: @danthat
Players: This is a single player game
Lair Of The Clockwork God is an adventure played with two characters from different game genres. Ben is a die-hard, old-school LucasArts Adventure fan, one foot stuck in the 90s. Dan is younger, running and jumping platform character, he's hip, he's...
Combo Postage
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 06/07/2019
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Combo Postage is a jumping and stacking game. You play as Sue at her summer job as she dodges, tapes, and stomps boxes with a high-tech tape gun. Run into a box to tape it up then stomp to seal. It’s simple, hectic fun and as you realise you can line...
To The Moon
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 10/11/2011, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
To the Moon is a story-adventure following two doctors trying to fulfil a dying man's last wish to go to the moon. With only a few ways to interact with the game, you control the doctors, exploring and solving puzzles to reconstruct the dying man's...
Portal Knights
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/02/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Portal Knights is an adventure set in a Minecraft-like world, but that focuses much more on role-play and characters. You still have the exploration and building elements, but also more story and monsters to take down.
Pikmin 3 Deluxe (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/10/2013, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Fighting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @MonolithSoft
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pikmin is a series of puzzle games where you direct hordes of titular plant-like creatures to navigate garden locations. Different colour Pikmins have different abilities so the challenge is to get enough of the right ones to destroy obstacles, avoid...
Ear Hockey
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/12/2018
Platforms: PC
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Ear Hockey is a bat and ball competitive game played by listening to the in-game audio alone; no screen required. It uses spatial audio cues to signal to the player where they are in the play-space and where the main game object, the ball, is travelling.
League Of Legends
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 27/10/2009
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Role-Playing and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
In League of Legends you battle enemies and other players in online arenas. You choose a champion with unique abilities and battle to destroy another human or computer-controlled team's base. Other modes vary the challenge with specific objectives,...
Crucible
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 10/05/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Role-Playing and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Crucible is a team-based shooting game played on a varied and dangerous alien world. Humans, aliens, and robots converge to hunt the mysterious and powerful substance known as Essence. Fight together, unlock new abilities, adapt to ever-changing...
Scrap Mechanic
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 20/01/2016
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 5 players online
Scrap Mechanic is an open world-building game. You collect materials that are used to design machines, vehicles and buildings. You start at the site of a crashed spaceship, with just a few items and must hunt for supplies, fuel and food in order to...
Trailmakers
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 28/02/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Creative, Open World and Racing
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 4 players online
In Trailmakers, you explore an open world in vehicles you have made from Lego-like blocks. Build a car, a plane, a boat or a combination of these, a carplaneboat. The game's physics encourage players to imaginatively combine propulsion, floatation,...
Xenoblade Chronicles (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/01/2010
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Xenoblade Chronicles is a series of open-world role-play games. They take place on the frozen bodies of two warring titans, the Bionis and the Mechonis. In the first game, during an attack on his colony, protagonist Shulk discovers his ability to wield...
Fire Escape
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 29/04/2020
Platforms: Android and PC
Players: This is a single player game
Fire Escape is a murder mystery styled on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. You sit on a fire escape and can see into the apartments opposite as well as hear the intimate conversations of your neighbours across the alleyway. You peer into the lives of the...
Sago Mini (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/06/2017
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Creative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Sago Mini games are designed for 3-5 year old pre-school children. Like Toca Boca games for younger kids, they offer interactive storybook characters with light narratives and open-ended play. Superheroes, space explorers, boat...
Totally Reliable Delivery Service
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 24/06/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Open World, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Totally Reliable Delivery Service is a package delivery game, where you use different means to get parcels to their rightful owners in the time limit.
Yoshi's Crafted World
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/05/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Adventure and Platform
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Yoshi's Crafted World is a running and jumping game where you control a friendly dinosaur, Yoshi. You work through each level, eating or jumping on enemies while searching for hidden items and collectables.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 04/05/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a running, jumping and collecting game where you control Donkey Kong. A second player can control the Diddy Kong sidekick. The challenge is getting to the end of each level, but there are also letters and items to...
Void *!@?*
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 29/05/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: This is a single player game
Void *!@?* is an inglorious tongue-in-cheek shooting game, where you control misfit prisoners out of the Sargasso Nebula. You decide which shops to investigate, what to do and who to fight. When you die, you start again with some of the loot you've...
Tree
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 13/08/2018
Platforms: PC
Genres: Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Tree is a short 15 minute game that tells the story of a boy who plants a small tree. You control the planting, watering and how the tree grows each season. As you do this the years pass and the boy...
My Brother Rabbit
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/11/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Players: This is a single player game
My Brother Rabbit is a hand-drawn hidden-object puzzle game about an ill sister. As her plight is told through water-colour animation, you play her brother's rabbit and unfold a parallel story in a fantasy world.
Winding Worlds
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Players: This is a single player game
Winding Worlds is a colourful puzzle game played in a mythic world where you solve your way through the afterlife. The characters you meet don't always want to help, but you can help them deal with their problems and find peace. The puzzles are logic...
Soccer Physics
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/12/2018
Platforms: Android, PC, Web Browser and iOS
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Soccer Physics is a super simple football game you play by pressing one button. Made by Otto-Ville Ojala who also made the similar one-button games Wrestle Jump and Tank of Tanks, it's designed to be silly and fun. The matches are 2-on-2 and you time...
Overwhelm
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 04/04/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Overwhelm is a running jumping game set in a pixilated dark bloody world. The twist, apart from the mild-horror theme, is that it's your enemies that power up rather than you. You explore the oppressive caverns of the hive, guided only by a sparse map.
Way Of The Passive Fist
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 11/04/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Rhythm
Players: This is a single player game
Way Of The Passive Fist is a fighting game where you parry, dodge, dash and counter-attack to outwit and outlast your enemies rather than kill them.
Witch It
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 31/05/2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action and Simulation
Players: You can play this with 16 players online
Witch It is a game where you play a witch or a hunter. The witches run and hide in the village and can turn into every-day items. Transforming into these props in such a way as they look like part of the world is key to hiding. Observing the placement...
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 06/11/2007, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Physically Active and Sports
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is a series of simple competitive sports games featuring characters from Nintendo and Sega. Each game in the series is themed around a different Olympic year and location.
Pushy and Pully
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/05/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Pushy and Pully is a puzzle game where you push blocks into enemies to kill them, or into each other to gain special attacks. The action takes place on a single screen with up to two players. After 10 levels there is a large enemy to defeat before...
StarCrossed
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 11/02/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Shooting
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
StarCrossed is an breakout style game where you shoot a projectile between two players to hit and destroy enemies. You play one of a cast of 5 space-faring heroes, each with unique abilities. Each level pits you against enemies that shoot at you with...
Pac-Man Vs.
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/11/2003, updated in 2017
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Pac-Man Vs. is a version of Pac Man adapted for multiple players. One player controls Pac-Man and tries to eat the pellets, while the others control the ghosts to try to catch him. Each team scores points in different ways, and the first team to hit the...
Buissons
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Hide and seek game where you control a bush. You move around the screen in the dark during the night. Then, the next day, one of the players tries to spot where the bushes are by observing what has changed. The seeking player stands in the middle with a...
Jet Lancer
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/05/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Players: This is a single player game
Jet Lancer is a high-speed air combat game, similar to Luftrausers (and much older inertia shooting games like Virus/Zarch), where you pilot giant robots to deal with Sky Pirates. The novelty here is the nuanced and instinctive control of the craft. The...
Skate Story
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Narrative, Rhythm and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Skate Story is a skateboarding game that focuses on the skill, weight and locomotion of controlling the board. Running through the game is a story where you explore the underworld beneath New York City.
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 04/08/2020
Platforms: PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Fighting and Sports
Developer: @FallGuysGame
Players: You can play this with 60 players online
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a whacky obstacle race where up to 60 people compete to get to the end of the course and advance to the next round. Drawing on TV shows like Takeshi's Castle, Wipeout or It's a Knock Out you have to control top-heavy...
Second Extinction
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 3 players online
Second Extinction is team based shooting game, where squads of three work to kill mutated dinosaurs that have taken over the planet. You play one of a handful of survivors and must work with two other online players with weapons, abilities and skills to...
Hue
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 30/08/2016
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: This is a single player game
Hue is a puzzle game where you run and jump through platforms. You explore a grey land while searching for your missing mother. The novelty is in the coloured pieces you uncover, which when matched against obstacles will cause them to disappear,...
Never Alone
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 18/12/2014
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Platform
Developer: @NeverAloneGame
Players: This is a single player game
Never Alone is a running, jumping and exploring game based on the traditional Iñupiaq tale, "Kunuuksaayuka". You swap between controlling an Iñupiaq girl named Nuna and her Arctic fox companion as you complete puzzles and move the story forwards.
Beyond Blue
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 22/04/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Beyond Blue is an underwater exploration game where you play Mirai, a deep-sea explorer and scientist. You see, hear, and interact with the ocean and the creatures in it as you discover an untouched world.
Over The Alps
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 31/03/2020
Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Over The Alps is an adventure with intrigue and espionage set in 1939 Switzerland. Designed to look like retro photographs. The story unfolds as you select stamps to indicate how your character should approach interactions. Discover a secret history in...
Crossy Road Castle
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 28/02/2020
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Crossy Road Castle, is the follow up to the simple frogger Cross Road game. You play pixilated animals racing to the top of various towers that change every time you play.
Pilgrims
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 07/10/2019
Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Puzzle and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Pilgrims is an adventure game where you help the characters you meet by playing cards. As you progress you assist them to complete their little stories in different ways. It's a little like Scribblenauts, but with less focus on the breadth of options...
Tint
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 13/09/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Tint is a puzzle game you solve by painting. You mix watercolours to match the colour of the origami. The aesthetic and the low-pressure puzzles make for a soothing experience. There are no timers, no countdowns, no points and certainly no rush,...
Patterned
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 15/09/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Patterned is a puzzle game where you piece together beautiful patterns. It's a bit like a jigsaw but without the stress of forever finding more blue sky pieces. Each pattern begins as a sketch and you use visual clues to reassemble its scrambled pieces.
Golf Peaks
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/11/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Players: This is a single player game
Golf Peaks is a golf game you play by picking different shot cards and swiping in a direction. Unlike other golf games it more of a puzzle than a test of skill or timing. You don't even need to understand of golf.
Inbento
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/03/2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Inbento is a food-themed puzzle game where you solve puzzles to prepare lunch boxes. As you complete each "bento" lunch box a story unfolds about the highs and lows of parenthood. There are over 100 fun puzzles, aesthetically served with traditional...
Spring Falls
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 17/11/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Spring Falls is a puzzle where you erode a geometric landscape to let water flow down the mountain and help plants grow. Along with the low-pressure puzzle play, the game offers a calming experience with soft visuals, ambient music and interactive...
Bubbles The Cat
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/04/2019
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Platform
Players: This is a single player game
Bubbles The Cat is a platform game you play by tapping a single button to jump. Through hundreds of levels and six worlds, you automatically run forwards bu must tap at the right time to survive.
Remember Me
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 03/06/2013
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Platform
Players: This is a single player game
Remember Me is an adventure game developed where you play Nilin, a memory hunter working for an underground resistance. The game is set in the year 2084, in a futuristic version of Paris called Neo-Paris, where the Memorize corporation has made memories...
Words With Friends
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/01/2009
Platforms: Android, Web Browser and iOS
Genres: Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Words with Friends is online Scrabble. You take turns placing tiles to make words crossword-style. Because the game is online you can play with people in different places, but also without having to be online at the same time with its asynchronous play.
Death Squared
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/03/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Death Squared is a cooperative puzzle game for 1, 2 or 4 players. Together, you solve puzzles by guiding a robot to a colour-coded goal. Getting there requires co-operation and communication as each player's path has deadly traps and hazards.
Kingdom Hearts (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 28/03/2002, updated in 2019
Platforms: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Kingdom Hearts is a series of action role-playing games that combine video game and Disney characters in popular adventures. You play Sora, as he journies with various Disney, Square Enix and Pixar characters and fight multiple incarnations of games...
Cuphead
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 29/09/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Cuphead is a running, jumping and shooting game that looks like an old Mickey Mouse cartoon. You play on your own or with someone else and work across the screen, jumping gaps, shooting enemies and avoiding projectiles.
Demon's Souls (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 04/10/2011
Platforms: PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Adventure and Narrative
Players: You can play this with 6 players online
Demons Souls is first a series of fighting and exploration games recently re-released on PlayStation 5. From third-person perspective you navigate interconnected locations while fighting enemies with weapons and magic. Larger boss enemy encounters...
The Stanley Parable
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 31/07/2011
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
The Stanley Parable is an interactive drama with no combat or action to speak of apart from walking around and interacting with everyday objects. You guide a silent protagonist, Stanley, while discouraging narration plays in your ear. As you discover...
Farm Together
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/02/2018, updated in 0019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 16 players online
Farm Together is a low-pressure farm simulator. You develop your farm by yourself or cooperate with your friends. Starting with an empty plot you can grow crops, plant trees, take care of the animals, add buildings and facilities, and unlock new items...
Forza Street
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/05/2020
Platforms: PC and iOS
Genres: Racing
Players: This is a single player game
Forza Street is a simpler racing game from the team behind Forza Motorsport. You race other players to earn and purchase a lineup of high powered cars. Races are quick and focus on the cinematic rather than realism.
Brawlhalla
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 17/10/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Brawlhalla is an online fighting game where, like Smash Bros, the goal is to knock opponents off the stage. You do this by using your characters specific attacks to damage them until they can't get back to the platform.
Disney Infinity (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 18/08/2013
Platforms: Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Fighting, Open World and Platform
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Disney Infinity is an action game with themed adventures around iconic Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters. Players unlock content in the game with physical figurines and PlaySet pieces placed onto a Base peripheral plugged into the console...
Starlink: Battle for Atlas
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 16/10/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Shooting and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Starlink is a space exploration and battle game. But unlike Elite, or No Man's Sky the focus is on arcade fun and quirky characters and Pixar-style storytelling for younger players.
ClusterPuck 99
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/03/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative, Sports and Strategy
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room
ClusterPuck 99 is an 8 player sports game where teams bash and jostle each other to gain control of the puck. The aim is to work together to get it to your opponent's goal, while avoiding other players and spikes. You can use power-ups and speed boosts...
Canabalt
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/08/2009
Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation Portable and iOS
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Canabalt is a side-on running game where you press jump at the right time to keep a small character from falling off buildings or crashing into things. With minimalist visuals, you play the small suited man fleeing from an unknown threat. As the game...
Here Kitty!
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 04/05/2020
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Action, Physically Active and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Here Kitty! is a real-world hide and seek game you play by hiding your phone. It's from the same team behind Heads Up. When the child calls out or gets near the phone makes cat noises to give them clues to find it. When it's...
Collapsus
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS
Developer: @WraithGames
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room
Collapsus is a puzzle game where you match tiles. You rotate the screen to adjust which way is down, then tapping a single tiles makes it disappear. And vertical or horizontal lines with matching colours you create also disappear. Tapping a single tile...
Sequence Storm
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 21/12/2018
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Creative, Narrative, Racing, Rhythm and Sports
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
This is a rhythm game where you press buttons in time with the music to score points. It sounds simple, but similar to games like Guitar Hero, it soon gets more complex. Unusually the rhythm play has a futuristic racing story.
Slay the Spire
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/11/2017
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Fighting, Role-Playing, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Slay the Spire is an adventure battle card game. You play one of four characters attempting to ascend a spire of multiple floors. You fight enemies and bosses by playing cards you have collected. You gain new cards as rewards from combat. With 100's to...
Koral
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/05/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Koral is a diving exploration game where you play the sea current. This sounds a little odd, playing a flow of energy, but works brilliantly.
Stoneshard
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 06/02/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Role-Playing and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Stoneshard is a role-playing game set in a medieval world. You play a mercenary travelling through the war-torn kingdom, taking contracts, fighting, mending your wounds and developing your character.
HyperDot
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/01/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
HyperDot is a dodging game, where you control a small circle and must move to avoid collisions with other shapes. It sounds too simple to be fun, but the cover design and variation in challenge make it a really enjoyable game.
Super Mario Run
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/12/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Platform
Players: You can play this with 1 player online
Super Mario Run is a running and jumping game you play by tapping the screen to jump. You character automatically runs and you just tap at the right time to avoid obstacles and jump on enemies. It sounds too simple to be fun but is actually a cleverly...
Wunderling
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Players: This is a single player game
Wunderling is a jumping game controlled by just two buttons: jumping and boost. The levels scroll automatically so you have to think ahead to decide how to get past each section. It's a combination of time reactions and forward planning.
The Elder Scrolls (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 11/11/2011, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing, Shooting and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
The Elder Scrolls is a series of action role-playing games that take you to detailed open worlds with free-form gameplay. The series has sold more than 58 million copies.
Eagle Island
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 18/07/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Developer: @ScreenwaveMedia
Players: This is a single player game
This is a running and jumping adventure where you play Quill and his owl companion Koji as they uncover the secrets of Eagle Island. You work your way through levels using falconry-inspired attacks to take down enemies.
Supermarket Shriek
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/06/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Racing and Simulation
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room
Supermarket Shriek is a kart racing game where you control a shopping trolley with a goat co-pilot. You have to navigate through obstacles and challenges in a range of shops, boutiques and supermarkets.
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 30/09/2014, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing, Simulation and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and Middle-earth: Shadow of War is an adventure series set in Tolkein's fictional work, between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. You play Talion, a Ranger who sets out to avenge the deaths of his loved one. The...
Tower of Babel No Mercy
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/02/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action and Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Tower of Babel is a game where you work with friends to build a tower out of buildings. You control the game with a single button (and one more for special abilities) to drop your building on the stack. It swings left and right so you have to time it...
12 Orbits
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/04/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play with 12 players in the same room
12 Orbits is a tactical game where you control a small coloured ball by pressing a single button. When you are over the grey circles you press to orbit that circle, otherwise pressing the button will dodge.
Super One More Jump
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/01/2018
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Super One More Jump is a jumping platform game you control with a single tap or button press. You control the little character who automatically moves forward. Your task is to press jump at the right time so you can progress through the level.
Switch 'N' Shoot
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/04/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Developer: @Crowbarska
Players: This is a single player game
Switch 'N' Shoot is a shooting game controlled by a single button. You pilot a star-fighter, each time you press to shot you change direction. It's a novel way to play but also can be good for players with motor impairment (and fast reactions).
Clubhouse Games (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/09/2006, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo DS and Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Strategy
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Clubhouse Games, is a series that offers classic board and card games in one large bundle. It's not only great value but introduces children to a wide range of real-world games to play with the family.
Frog Detective (Series)
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/11/2018, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
This is a comedy adventure game where you play a detective frog, named (unsurprisingly) "Frog Detective".
198x
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/01/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure and Narrative
Developer: @198xGame
Players: This is a single player game
198X is a pastiche of different classic games brought together to tell the story of a suburban teenager stuck between the limitations of youth and the obligations of adulthood. In the game, you discover a local arcade, and through the different games...
Murder by Numbers
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Players: This is a single player game
Murder by Numbers is a detective game where you find clues by solving math-square nonogram-style logic puzzles. A little like Phoenix Wright games where you have a murder to solve, but here you have to use...
The Pedestrian
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 29/01/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Players: This is a single player game
The Pedestrian is a puzzle game where you control a stick man navigating a series of road signs around a virtual city. It sounds a little odd and quite simple, but by layering its interconnected sign-based puzzles it creates an experience that is both...
Cities Skylines
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/03/2015, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Creative, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Cities: Skylines is a city-building simulation. It rekindled the attention to detail and ambitious city planning of the Sim City games. You zone buildings, place roads, set taxation, provide public services and public...
Sim City (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 02/02/1989, updated in 2014
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Creative, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
SimCity is a series of city-building game, created by Will Wright. Since their inception as educational experiences in 1989, the games have enabled players to design ambitious cities. The attraction is the open-ness of play, where you can let your...
One Person Story
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 23/08/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Players: This is a single player game
This is a simple puzzle game played by pressing a single button to help a bouncing ball through a maze. It's voiced with a narrative about life's difficulties and challenges. It starts simply but gets more difficult as you have to open and close doors,...
Pikuniku
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 24/01/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pikuniku is an adventure where you play a red creature, Piku, on a mission to harvest the colourful world's resources. You interact with different objects to trigger switches and open doors. You can also lasso your legs to swing from hooks or curl into...
Spaceland
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 30/10/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Fighting, Shooting, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Spaceland is a quick turn-based strategy game where you command sci-fi troopers to shoot, kick, blow up and destroy the enemy. It's a little like a game of chess as you equip and plan your missions, before carefully moving and attacking on your turn.
Change: A Homeless Survival Experience
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 01/05/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Change is a survival game where you play a homeless person trying to make it against the odds. It's intentionally hard to do well as you explore an endless city that's different every time you play.
Pine
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/11/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Pine is an adventure game where you play a primitive young man searching for new land for his tribe. You discover five tribes of anthropomorphic creatures that need to be understood and overcome to enable your tribe to have somewhere to live.
Chariot
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 30/09/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Chariot is a co-op platform game where you haul around a wheeled Chariot, to the end of each level. Pushing, pulling or dragging with ropes, you need to use the real physics of the game to solve puzzles and time jumps to get the heavy object to the...
Ibb and Obb
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/08/2013, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 3
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Ibb & Obb is a puzzle game where you run, jump, land on enemies and solve momentum puzzles. The novelty is that it's a game designed for co-operation. One player controls the green creature, Ibb, and the other controls the pink creature, Obb. The world...
Discovery Tour (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 10/09/2018, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure and Simulation
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: This is a single player game
Discovery Tour is a special mode that uses the worlds created for the main Assassin’s Creed games to offer an educational exploration experience. It is available both as a free part of the original games and as a...
Littlewood
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 18/06/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Littlewood (coming to Switch soon) is a town and farming simulator a little like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing. Here though, the twist is that the game is set after a grand adventure. You...
Sunless Sea
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 06/02/2015
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Sunless Sea is a sea-faring adventure where you pilot a small steamship to explore a Victorian-era London that has been moved beneath the earth's surface. You take on the role of captain but select different ambitions that determine how you will play.
Omensight
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/05/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Fighting, Narrative and Strategy
Developer: @SpearheadMtl
Players: This is a single player game
Omensight is a brawling adventure game where you play the role of Harbinger, a mythical warrior who only appears in times of crisis. As night falls, you witness this destruction of the world at the hands of a dark God but can relive this final day to...
ITTA
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 22/04/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Narrative and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Itta is a shooting adventure game set in a world filled with big monsters. You play the young girl Itta, who wakes in a strange place surrounded by her dead family and must seek out the powerful beings that did this to her. The only guide you have is a...
Jedi Fallen Order
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/01/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is a fighting-adventure game set five years after Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and 14 years before Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Young Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis is hunted through the galaxy by the...
Going Under
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 24/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Going Under is a satirical adventure game where you play an intern in a failing start-up company. The game proceeds like other dungeon adventures with enemies to defeat and quests to find items, only here it's all in aid of keeping your boss happy while...
Nira
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 24/04/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Role-Playing, Simulation and Strategy
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Nira is a survival game where pixilated characters explore the primitive world to find resources to survive. It's unusual not only because of its basic art-style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play. Something like a cross...
Mountain
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 01/07/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Creative and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
This is a game from the same developer as Everything that simulates a mountain. You influence how each of the rising land masses turns out by drawing different objects. The game then evolves before you, offer a gentle...
#SelfCare
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 29/07/2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Simulation
Developer: @LuvTruLuv
Players: This is a single player game
#SelfCare is a companion game that aims to create space for your feelings. Unlike other apps that remind or incentivize you to take a break, breath or even just to stand up, #SelfCare offers interactions and narrative that create a context for you to...
SoundSelf: A Technodelic
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/04/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
SoundSelf is an interactive guided meditation. Using the microphone, and optionally enhanced by VR, the game leads you through a landscape that responds to the sounds of your breath. This encourages you to make the Ujjayi Pranayama sound on your...
Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/12/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Lost Words is an adventure game where you run, jump and explore inside a young girl’s diary. You control Izzy as she writes her diary by walking on words, move them around and solve different puzzles. This develops two parallel stories, one about Izzy...
KartRider (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/05/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Racing, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 16 players online
KartRider is an online kart racing game. You race and customise your kart on a variety of different circuits. Along with the usual fantasy vehicles this includes real cars. It's similar to Mario Kart and has power-ups and drift...
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a side-on running and jumping game starring the characters from the 3D platform game Yooka-Laylee. You control Yooka, a male chameleon, and Laylee, a female bat and take on a level...
Yooka-Laylee
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 11/04/2017
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @PlaytonicGames
Players: This is a single player game
Yooka-Laylee is a running, jumping, collecting and exploration game where you play a pair of animal friends: a chameleon called Yooka and a bat called Laylee. They act as one, each contributing different abilities, on a quest to retrieve a magical book...
F1 Race Stars
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/11/2012, updated in 2014
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 12 players online
F1 Race Stars is a racing game loosely based on the 2012 Formula One season. The tracks may have loops, jumps and short-cuts and the drivers may look a little stylised but the kart-style racing is actually pretty convincing.
Destiny 2 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 09/09/2014
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Shooting
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 16 players online
Destiny is a shooting game set in space. You have to play online as it focuses on grand sci-fi adventures with other players. From the same developer, it takes Halo towards a bigger online role play experience.
Stacking
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 08/02/2011
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Stacking is puzzle game where characters are Russian stacking matryoshka dolls. Controlling the smallest doll in the game, Charlie Blackmore, you go on an adventure. Your main ability is that you can stack and unstack into larger dolls and gain their...
Superhot
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 25/02/2016, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Web Browser and Xbox One
Players: This is a single player game
Superhot is a shooting game with a twist. Time only moves forward (bullets, enemies, damage) when you move your character. This is still a violent game, in fact, in slow motion, it feels more violent.
Mass Effect (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 20/11/2007
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Mass Effect is a sci-fi adventure where you role-play a soldier named Commander Shepard, who must save the galaxy from a race of powerful mechanical beings. The series started in 2007 and has fourth substantial instalments that take you from that first...
Sea of Solitude
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 05/07/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Platform
Players: This is a single player game
Sea of Solitude is an adventure where you play a young woman, Kay, with such strong loneliness that her feelings turn her into a monster. As you explore a flooded city you discover dark creatures that you must deal with -- by uncovering their underlying...
No Heroes Here
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/10/2017
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
No Heroes Here is a co-operative defend your castle game for up to four players. In simple pixel graphics, you have to work together to prepare your defences and then use them as the armies attack. The key to success is that everyone needs a role,...
Slime Rancher
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/10/2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Slime Rancher is a farming simulation with a difference. Rather than chickens, sheep or cows, you farm slimes. You explore the open world from a first-person perspective to find and collect slimes. As you develop your farm in numerous ways you generate...
Skate 4 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 14/09/2007, updated in 2010
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 6 players online
Skate is a skateboarding series with innovative controls. One stick is used to control the skater's body and the other his feet. This resulted in the need to quickly motion different patterns to intuitively achieve different tricks - what become coined...
Curious Expedition (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 19/05/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Puzzle and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Curious Expedition is an expedition simulation, in the late 19th century. You join historical people to explore a world map to gain fame, science and treasures. Each time you set out the world is different, with unique challenges requiring particular...
Dunk Lords
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 18/03/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Sports
Players: This is a single player game
Dunk Lords is an over the top two-on-two basketball fighting game. While themed around the well-known sport, here it takes on a more aggressive and full-contact form. But the result is about the silly competitive dribbling, shooting and dunking rather...
Our Personal Space
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 14/02/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Turn-Based
Developer: @Rachel_Helps
Players: This is a single player game
Our Personal Space is a text adventure where, rather than surviving alien attack or harsh environments, it's your marriage that you are fighting for. You play a newly married doctor on a space colony and must decide how she spends her time, responds to...
Signs of the Sojourner
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @EchodogGames
Players: This is a single player game
Signs of the Sojourner, an introspective narrative where you interact with characters by solving puzzles with cards that represent emotions. It's a coming-of-age story set in the near-future and explores how relationships form, break, and mend in the...
No Time to Explain
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 17/06/2015
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @tinyBuild
Players: This is a single player game
No Time to Explain is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play a man chasing his future self through time. As the game evolves you must progress to solve time puzzles and complete platforming challenges.
Dishonored (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 09/10/2012, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Puzzle, Shooting and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Dishonored is an adventure game series set in the fictional, plague-ridden industrial city of Dunwall. You play Corvo Attano, bodyguard to the Empress of the Isles. But you are framed for her murder and forced to become an assassin.
Zero Escape (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 10/12/2009, updated in 2016
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Zero Escape, is a series of adventure games that follows a group of nine individuals, who are kidnapped and held captive by a person who goes by the name "Zero", and are forced to play a game of life and death in order to escape.
Viewtiful Joe (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 07/10/2003
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Players: This is a single player game
Viewtiful Joe is a side-on fighting game where you play a movie-lover whose girlfriend Silvia is kidnapped during a film starring your favorite superhero, Captain Blue. You enter the movie world, transformed into the tokusatsu-style persona "Viewtiful...
Prince of Persia (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 03/10/1989
Platforms: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox and Xbox 360
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Platform
Players: This is a single player game
Prince of Persia is a long-standing game series dating back to the early 90's. The games all feature the titular prince who must escape a maze of platform-based levels. The game first impressed with its unusually fluid movement and life-like animation....
A Mortician's Tale
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 18/10/2017
Platforms: PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
A Mortician's Tale is a management game where you play as a mortician, Charlie, working in a funeral home. As you play, you handle bodies of the deceased, including cleaning and beautifying them, as well as dealing with embalming and cremation. The dead...
Rime
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/05/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Open World
Players: This is a single player game
Rime is an adventure on an island where you play a boy led a fox-like spirit as a guide. To progress through the beautiful environments you solve puzzles across five large levels. You can run, climb, carry objects, and push or pull larger objects across...
Apart Of Me
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 12/12/2016
Platforms: PC
Genres:
Players: This is a single player game
This is an exploration game were you visit a peaceful island, meet friendly characters, and complete quests. The theme of grief intertwines through these things. At their own pace, the player can collect various tools designed to help with coping....
Retimed
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/11/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Platform and Shooting
Developer: @StrayFawnStudio
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Retimed is a multiplayer shooting game where players can create a bubble that slows down time. This makes the usual frantic shooting and dodging more achievable as when you are in danger you have more time to get out of the way.
The Last Day of June
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 31/08/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Last Day of June is a game about a couple called Carl and June, who suffer a tragedy when a car accident takes June's life and leaves Carl in a wheelchair. You control Carl, remembering life with June and discover that you can interact with her...
Islanders
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 04/04/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Creative, Open World, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Islanders is city-building game where you carefully place structures to earn points from their geographic location and relation to other features and buildings on your islands. Earn enough points and you unlock new buildings and eventually the chance to...
Stormbound Kingdom Wars
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 18/09/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Stormbound is a strategic battle game combining Chess and Clash Of Clans gameplay. You build an army by earning cards for different units, defences and abilities. These have to be carefully chosen to do well in the battles...
Clash Royale
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 02/03/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Clash Royale is a real-time strategy game where you collect cards to gain units and powers for a player vs. player battle. It's like a simpler version of Clash of Clans.
Clash of Clans
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 02/08/2012, updated in 2013
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 50 players online
Clash of Clans is a cartoony strategy war game played on smartphones and tablets. Set in a fantasy world, you take charge of a village and must build defences against attack from other players. Likewise, you gain resources by attacking others.
XCOM (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/01/1994, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting, Shooting, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
X-Com (which became XCOM) is a science fiction strategic battle game where you control units to stop an alien invasion. The long running series has come in many forms, but always has in common the finely tuned turn-based ground combat where you control...
Pocket City
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/07/2018
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Creative, Open World and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
You build your own living breathing city by creating residential, commercial, and industrial zones, as well as placing special buildings. In addition to this Sim City style play you earn points to upgrade by competing missions.
Grounded
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 28/07/2020
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @GroundedTheGame
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Grounded is a survival game where you are tiny and find yourself in someone’s back yard garden. It’s like Honey I Shrunk The Kids meets Fortnite. Ants, cockroaches, and bees pose a threat along with environmental hazards like water, tall grass and...
Lonely Mountains Downhill
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 22/10/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Racing and Sports
Players: This is a single player game
Race down a mountain on a bike. Make your way through thick forests, narrow trails and wild rivers. Race, jump, slide and try not to crash all the way from the peak to the valley. You choose your route to find the fastest way to the finish line.
Wide Ocean Big Jacket
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 07/02/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative and Open World
Developer: @_TurnFollow
Players: This is a single player game
This is a game about camping. Or rather, it's a game about the conversations you have while you are camping. You follow 13-year-old teenage friends Mord and Ben who recently started dating. The camping trip is with Mord’s Uncle Brad and Aunt Cloanne.
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 07/09/2018
Platforms: PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Open World
Players: This is a single player game
Marvel's Spider-Man is a series of superhero adventures where you swing through an open-world city fighting crime and advancing a film-like story. There are also many side quests and missions you can take along the way.
Mario Kart (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/08/1992, updated in 2018
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 16 players online
Mario Kart is a go-kart racing game on Nintendo systems. You race against other Nintendo characters around different circuits, picking up power ups, attacks and speed boosts. It is frantic and chaotic, but still requires skills to do well at.
Scrappers
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 10/04/2020
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Scrappers is a futuristic fighting game with a twist. You are not only battling the bots but fighting to manage waste as you traverse the city streets and take out the trash. You can play the game on your own or in a team of four mechanised trash...
Riverbond
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 10/06/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure and Fighting
Developer: @Cococucumberco
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Riverbond is a frantic adventure in a blocky world. With four people on one system you take on an adventure to defeat evil and free the charming citizens. It's a brawling game with the emphasis on fun and over the top cartoon combat.
Phogs
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/06/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Phogs is a game where you control a stretchy dog that has a head at both ends of its body. It sounds a little strange, but is actually an endearing adventure where, on your own or with another person, you control each end of the dog separately to...
QWOP
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/12/2010
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Players: This is a single player game
QWOP is a sports game with a difference. You have to control each limb of your virtual athlete. This changes it from a challenge of hitting buttons to using the touch screen or keyboard to deftly co-ordinate movement to gain forward motion. It's really...
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/11/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Platform, Simulation and Sports
Players: This is a single player game
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a strange game about movement and momentum. You are tasked with climbing a mountain. However, your only means of locomotion is a hammer that can stick to objects and drag you forwards.
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 26/06/2018
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is an adventure game set between Life Is Strange and Life is Strange 2. You play Chris Eriksen, a young boy who creates the superhero alter ego Captain Spirit to deal with the loss of his mother.
Regular Human Basketball
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 01/08/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play with 10 players in the same room and up to 10 players online
Regular Human Basketball is a very different sports game. You play basketball by jumping around inside the robot players to control their moves. It sounds both strange and hard work, but in reality it's a lot of fun.
Costume Quest (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/10/2010, updated in 2011
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Role-Playing and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Costume Quest is an adventure game where you play a trick-or-treating child when they encounter a monster that kidnaps your sibling. You travel the neighbourhood collecting items for your costume, candy and fellow children as companions in order to face...
In Other Waters
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 03/04/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
This is an underwater exploration game where you play an Artificial Intelligence assistance to a stranded xenobiologist in a mysterious alien ocean. The world is not seen except through the instrumentation available to you. This creates a non-violent...
The Red Lantern
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @TimberlineGames
Players: This is a single player game
The Red Lantern is a personal adventure about making something of your life. You and a team of sled dogs head into the wilderness and must navigate the ever-changing events of the Alaskan bush to find your way home.
Dicey Dungeons
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 13/08/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Fighting, Puzzle, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Dicey Dungeons is video game adventure where you build a deck of cards to represent characters, attacks and weapons. Here the novelty is that these cards combine with dice roles to determine who wins battles.
Wingspan
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for one to five players. You create flocks of birds to extend a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to...
Superliminal
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/11/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Open World and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Superliminal is a puzzle game incorporating optical illusions and forced perspective. As you play and explore you can manipulate objects so that when put down their perspective, scale and size has changed. This enables you to progress through areas...
The Last Campfire
Rating: PEGI 7+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
The Last Campfire, from the same developer as No Man's Sky, is an adventure about Ember who is trapped a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home. As you travel you take a flame with you to the world, lighting...
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/07/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is an adventure where you explore a world seeking out and collecting magical creatures, known as sprites, to banish an ominous shroud known as the Murk. As you do this, you make your way in the world, farming,...
Among Trees
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Among Trees is a game you play in a forested wilderness full of creatures and fauna. It's handcrafted by a small team and creates a vibrant world to explore. This is a game you aim to win or dominate, but rather find your place in.
Crazy Taxi
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/01/1998, updated in 2012
Platforms: Android, GameCube, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and iOS
Genres: Action, Open World, Racing and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Crazy Taxi is a series of games where you take people to different locations in a city, as a taxi driver. It sounds a little dull, but in this brighter and bigger world it's a joy rather than a chore. When you complete a fare you get money based on how...
Jet Set Radio (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/01/2000, updated in 2012
Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360 and iOS
Genres: Action, Creative, Open World, Simulation and Sports
Players: This is a single player game
Jet Set Radio is an action game where you play a skating youth traversing Tokyo, spraying graffiti and evading authorities. It was influenced from late 90s Japanese pop culture such as the rhythm game PaRappa the Rapper.
Meteos
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/06/2005
Platforms: Nintendo DS and iOS
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Meteos is a tile-matching game inspired by Missile Command and Tetris. You stack coloured blocks which fall from the top of the screen. The aim is to launch three or more blocks of the same colour onto the top of the screen to make them disappear.
Lumines
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/01/2004, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Rhythm
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Lumines is a music puzzle game where you rotate and align small blocks to form squares of a single colour. As you do this, in time with the music, they are erased as the beat line passes over them. The game is lost when the blocks reach the top of the...
Chime (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/02/2010, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Players: This is a single player game
Chime is a block-dropping music puzzle game where you control a single shape to move, rotate, and then place it onto a grid. A beatline moves across the grid in time with the music, setting off events when it hits placed shapes.
Lost Winds (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/05/2008, updated in 2016
Platforms: Nintendo Wii, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
LostWinds is a running and jumping video game with a difference. As well as controlling a young boy named Toku you also control the wind. On the Wii you do this by gesturing with the Wii Remote controller, on iOS you draw the direction on the screen. A...
Snake Pass
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/03/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Snake Pass is a puzzle game where you move around objects and through the world like a snake. Rather than running around the levels like you do in games like Mario games, you have to slither along the ground and coil around...
Fractured Minds
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/11/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Fractured Minds is a short game that explores the implications of living with mental illness. You explore everyday spaces that behave in strange and sometimes disturbing ways. To progress, you need to solve some simple puzzles.
Star Wars Battlefront (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 17/11/2017
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Shooting
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 40 players online
Star Wars Battlefront II is a shooting game based on the Star Wars films. There have been four games in the series and is similar to the main Battlefield series. The latest version is Star Wars Battlefront II that features...
Mutant Mudds
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 26/01/2012, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Players: This is a single player game
Mutant Mudds is a retro platform video game. It's unusual because it Is unforgiving and hard to play so presents a substantial challenge. Also, playing to the 3D feature of the Nintendo 3DS console, the game allows you to jump into the background of the...
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 22/03/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an adventure fighting game set in the Sengoku period in Japan. You play a shinobi known as Wolf, who has lost an arm, as he attempts to take revenge on a samurai clan who attacked him and kidnapped his lord.
Neo Cab
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 03/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
This is a narrative adventure from behind the wheel of a cab. You play as Lina, the last human driver-for-hire on the streets of Los Ojos. Your friend and only lifeline has gone missing; with no money and nowhere to stay, your only leads are the...
Monomals
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 01/11/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Creative, Puzzle and Rhythm
Players: This is a single player game
This is a game about fishing and music. You drop your line into the water, catch a fish and make music along the way. There are different animal DJ's to choose, each with a different sound and 21 different underwater courses to fish in.
Windbound
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Windbound is an adventure game where you hunt, explore and craft to survive. But unlike games like Zelda when you die you start over and the world is endlessly changing for each new adventure.
Pendragon
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Narrative, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @inkleStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Pendragon is a character-driven strategy game, from the creators 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault where you rally the Knights of the Round Table to reach Arthur before he meets his fate.
Valorant
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 02/06/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Valorant is a free online shooting game, where two teams of five compete under the role of agents with unique abilities. In the game, there is a virtual economy system used to purchase utilities and weapons.
Paladins: Champions of the Realm
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 31/03/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Paladins: Champions of the Realm is a free online shooting game, like Overwatch that lets you play as different heroes in the battles. It's set in a world combining fantasy and science fiction, including medieval-looking...
Guns of Icarus
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 10/03/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 32 players online
Guns of Icarus (Online/Alliance) is an online battle between teams of steampunk airships. Join up to 32 players for epic airship battles, with four players manning each ship. Or you can team up with a few friends to fight the AI that learns your habits....
Trailblazers
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 17/04/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 6 players online
Trailblazers is a racing video game where you paint the track your colour to gain a boost. In multiplayer mode, this creates a uniquely co-operative race. There are 8 different vehicles to choose, each with different stats and capabilities.
Tooth and Tail
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/09/2017
Platforms: Mac, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Fighting, Open World and Strategy
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Tooth and Tail is a real-time strategy game about anthropomorphic animals. Before each match, you choose a commander from four factions and six units from a pool of twenty. You then use these units to build farms, lookouts and gather resources.
Autonauts
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 17/10/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
This is an adventure game where you tame new worlds. You start with a blank slate similar to Sim City, but her you must build each dwelling, tool, vehicle yourself. It’s a task that’s too complex for any one person to handle. You are soon forced to...
Sociable Soccer
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/11/2019
Platforms: Android and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Sociable Soccer is a fast-paced, quick to pick-up, slow to master, football game. Unlike the intricated lifelike simulation of FIFA, this game wants to recreate the frantic feel of classic arcade football games. It has its heritage back in Sensible...
Where Cards Fall
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 15/09/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Where Cards Fall, from the same developer as Alto's Adventure, is an adventure where you build houses of cards to advance. In a beautifully hand-drawn world, you need to create pathways with the cards through the dreamlike...
Outlanders
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 17/09/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Outlanders is a town-builder simulation where you are the leader of a group of regular people building a town together. Some want to survive, while others want to build amazing things. It’s up to you to guide them towards their goal
Lego Builder's Journey
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 20/12/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Players: This is a single player game
This isn't what you expect it to be. Rather than a brick-based puzzle for kids it's more like a thoughtful and nostalgic work of art for adults. You work through abstract levels by following instructions but also by breaking the rules. Take the time to...
Spek
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/09/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
A puzzle game where objects are seen only in outline and you must travel the world with your dot, by manipulating the perspective. You navigate through minimalist yet colourful environments full of challenging puzzles, dangerous inhabitants, and...
Football Manager 2020 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/12/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Simulation, Sports, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Football Manager is a football management simulation video game that started back in 1992 and has evolved each year. Now fully licenced for most of the Football Leagues, it offers an intricate way to manage a Football Club of your own.
Pyre
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/07/2017
Platforms: PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Sports
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pyre is an unusual mix of action role-playing and sports. It takes place in a fantasy world, where you guide a caravan of exiles during Rites fantasy sports games. As you explore you build a party of characters who encounter other groups of exiles and...
The Last Guardian
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 28/10/2016
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
The Last Guardian is an adventure, that follows Ico and The Shadow of the Colossus in the Team Ico trilogy. As the other games, it has an artistic look that is unusual for a video game, and a minimalist approach...
Myst
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/01/1983
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation Portable and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Myst is a classic video game graphic adventure. Published in 1983, and sellig over six million copies, it pre-dates many modern adventure games and created a new genre for gaming. Exploring by clicking in the world to move, you use a special book to...
Kentucky Route Zero (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 07/01/2013, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game in five acts. This means that you explore a deep and rich world backed by haunting electronic music and hymns to unfold a story of unpayable debts, abandoned futures, and the human drive to find...
Dropsy
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 10/09/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Dropsy is an adventure video game where you move around and interact with the world by simply clicking. You play a clown called Dropsy in a surreal world. As you explore and interact with the environment, solve puzzles, and talk to characters you learn...
Hello Neighbor (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/12/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 7 players online
Hello Neighbor is a stealth survival game with a horror feel. You try and sneak into the basement of their neighbour’s house to uncover a "horrible secret". The game responds to your strategy by setting traps along paths the player followed in...
Peggle (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/02/2007, updated in 2014
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Turn-Based
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
In Peggle, you fire a small ball into an array of pins that are triggered and disappear when the ball touches them. It's like a bright, saccharine pachinko game. But. being electronic you can earn all sort of bonus balls and abilities by hitting...
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 13/11/2007, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Shooting and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Assassin’s Creed is a game where you enter a past civilisation and explore pseudo history of real events and locations from the past. You can climb the environment extensively, interact with different characters, collect items to unlock more the...
Cadence of Hyrule
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/06/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Rhythm and Turn-Based
Developer: @BYG_Vancouver
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Cadence of Hyrule is a Zelda infused version of a popular rhythm action indie game called Crypt of the NecroDancer. Like the original you go on an adventure viewed from above and progressed by moving, attacking and dodging in time with the music.
Tangle Tower
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/09/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Players: This is a single player game
Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game, from the same developer as Snipperclips, where you explore a grand old house and it’s intertwining families to solve a mysterious murder. You are given the events of the murder, each...
Little Misfortune
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 18/11/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @KillMondayGames
Players: This is a single player game
Little Misfortune is a dark adventure where you play a small girl called, Misfortune, who, guided by a voice in her head, seeks the prize of eternal happiness for her mother. It's played side-on and unfolds a narrative about the girl's family as you...
Snipperclips
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/03/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
This is a game where you play a piece of paper that can be cut into different shapes. Through a series of puzzle levels, you adjust your shape by clipping and overlapping other players. Sometimes this is to match a shape, at others it is to catch a ball...
Age of Empires (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 02/02/1998, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 2 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Age of Empires is a strategy game where you command an ancient civilisation in real-time and must develop from hunter-gatherers to advanced forms of defence and war. This is similar territory to Civilization but focus on...
Good Job!
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/03/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Platform and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
You play an office employee with a difference. Together with a friend you must climb the corporate ladder to take over the family business. But rather than starting as tea boy and working up, you have a set of more bizarre office problems: building zen...
Knack (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/09/2017
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Shooting
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Knack is a platform action series where you control a shape-shifting robot called Knack. Through beautiful arcade-style battles and worlds, you collect Relics that enable you to grow bigger and gain more powers.
The Wonderful 101
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 23/08/2013
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Wii U, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure and Fighting
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
The Wonderful 101 is an action game where you control not one but a huge horde of superheroes. Viewed from above, you work your way through levels defeating enemies. The group can "Unite Morph" into different shapes with specific powers.
My Time At Portia
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/01/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Strategy
Developer: @PatheaGames
Players: This is a single player game
This game is set after civilization has been destroyed, and humans are emerging from underground to rebuilding society. By gathering resources, crafting and building you slowly gain the tools to collect food, store grain, chop trees and build dwellings....
Coffee Talk
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 29/01/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Creative, Narrative and Role-Playing
Players: This is a single player game
Coffee Talk is an interactive story about a barista working in a coffee shop in Seattle. You listen to customer's concerns about life and love, in a retro pixilated world back with lo-fi chilled hip-hop music.
Kind Words
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 12/11/2019
Platforms: PC
Genres: Creative and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Kind Words is unusual because of the main interaction. You write letters to real people and receive back encouraging letters in return. Set in a cosy room with soft furnishings and relaxing music, it creates a space in which to find support and...
Kinect Sports (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 03/11/2010, updated in 2014
Platforms: Xbox One
Genres: Action, Physically Active, Racing and Sports
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Kinect Sports and Kinect Sports Rivals are a pair of games offering the Xbox equivalent of Wii Sports. Although these games use the Xbox Kinect camera so you simply move in front of the screen to control the different activities.
Wii Fit (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/04/2008
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Physically Active and Rhythm
Players: This is a single player game
Wii Fit is a collection of games designed to help you exercise. They use the Wii Balance Board peripheral that works with both Wii Fit on the Wii and Wii Fit Plus on the Wii U. The Balance Board measures the pressure you place on it and enables a range...
Ring Fit Adventure
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 18/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Physically Active
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
This is a running and jumping adventure game with a difference. You control your character with the circular plastic Ring-Con in your hands and Leg-Strap on your leg. The game can then tell how much you are moving and relate that to progress in the game.
N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/05/2015
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
N.E.R.O. is a story-driven first-person indie game with puzzles to solve and story threads to follow. The player character essentially walks a linear path and solves puzzles blocking their way, while a story is narrated.
Advance Wars (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 11/01/2002
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Shooting, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Advance Wars is a strategy war game where you control different units on a small map made of squares. Each unit has different abilities and must be used carefully and strategically to win. Each player takes it in turns to make their move, meaning there...
Castle Crashers
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/09/2015, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure and Fighting
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Castle Crashers is a cartoon looking fighting game, like Golden Axe, The Simpsons or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade games, set in a medieval universe where a dark wizard steals a mystical gem and captures four princesses. Four knights are charged...
Kerbal Space Program
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/03/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Creative, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Kerbal Space Program is a space flight simulation game. You direct a space program, staffed and crewed by aliens. It looks like a cute game for kids, but under its comic exterior is a hugely complex and engaging space simulation.
TerraTech
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 04/07/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative, Open World, Shooting and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 16 players online
TerraTech is a construction game where you create vehicles to explore the environment, find resources and craft upgrades. It includes a modular building element where your decisions affect the performance of what you make. Each building block has its...
Valiant Hearts The Great War
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 25/06/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Valiant Hearts is an adventure game set during World War I. You play four characters who help a young German soldier find his love in a story about survival, sacrifice and friendship. This is achieved by solving puzzles and interacting with various...
Bomber Crew
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/08/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Bomber Crew is a cartoon-styled World War 2 strategic bombing simulator. While it avoids the grim reality of these missions, it connects players to the extreme difficulty and danger of making it out and back again.
Runbow
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/08/2015
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Racing
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room and up to 9 players online
Runbow is an unusual racing game where each player controls a coloured figure who must run and jump their way through the platform levels ahead of their opponents who are trying to do the same thing.
Skies of Fury
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/04/2018
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Shooting and Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
This is a World War I fighter pilot game set during the Bloody April battles. You pilot one of 10 aircraft from WWI era and take on missions as a single player before challenging friends to the multiplayer, split-screen battles.
Teach Your Monster To Read
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/03/2014, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Players: This is a single player game
Teach Your Monster to Read is a game about phonics, letters and reading. Children create a monster for a journey through three games. The combination of colourful well-animated characters and proper reading learning is both fun and powerful.
Quantum League
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Quantum League is a shooting game where you go back in time when you die, to play through the same loop of the battle. You have three lives and so play through the same short gun-fight three times. But each time you have more knowledge about what the...
Summer in Mara
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/06/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Summer in Mara is a farming game with a strong narrative about an adventurous girl called Koa. With a full day-night and season cycle, you can take the challenge on at your own pace as you build your farm and explore the world around you.
I Am Dead
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 07/10/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: @A_i
Players: This is a single player game
I Am Dead is a puzzle game from the creators of Wilmot's Warehouse. You play a recently-deceased museum curator trying to avert a disaster from his home town of Shelmerston.
Shadow Of The Colossus
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 18/10/2005
Platforms: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @SonyJapanStudio
Players: This is a single player game
You play a young man who enters a forbidden land to defeat sixteen massive beings to restore the life of a girl he cares about. It sounds like any other video game, although in fact, Shadow of the Colossus stands apart in many ways.
Manifold Garden
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/10/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Open World, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Manifold Garden is inspired by Escher drawings and the reality-bending moments in the film Inception. You play from a first-person perspective and explore a beautiful, and what seems to be an abstract world, bereft of colour. It takes time to master and...
Let's Catch
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/06/2009
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Narrative and Rhythm
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
This is a game on the Wii about catching. It's created by Prope, who made the Sonic the Hedgehog games. You use the Wii Remote controller to motion a catch or a throw to a player in the game. The challenge is to learn how to press the button just right...
Assemble With Care
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 19/11/2019
Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Players: This is a single player game
From the makers of Monument Valley, this puzzle game is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories. You play a restorer who repairs people's favourite possessions: from family heirlooms to broken statues to...
Super Mario Odyssey
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 27/10/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Platform
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Mario has stared in running and jumping Super Mario games on Nintendo hardware since the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 80's. The formula remains unchanged. Explore a level, jump on enemies, collect coins and get to the flag at the end to inch...
Pokemon Go!
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 06/07/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Physically Active and Turn-Based
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 20 players online
Pokémon Go is a game you play by walking outside. You play on a smartphone so it can use the GPS to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon, which appear as if they are in the player's real-world location.
Super Mario Galaxy (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/11/2007
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Mario Galaxy is a different style of running, jumping and exploration game. It takes the Mario character to 100s of different planet shaped levels adding more realistic physics to the platform Ing play. Each world, or collection of worlds is different...
Battlefield (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 19/10/2018
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 64 players online
Battlefield V is the latest in a series of first-person shooting games set in various locations, such as Norway, France and Germany, during World War II. Like Call of Duty this aims to recreate the adrenaline, excitement and...
Mario Strikers Charged
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/05/2007
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Fighting and Sports
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Mario Strikers Charged, also Mario Strikers Charged Football and Mario Power Soccer, was the sequel to Super Mario Strikers for the GameCube. It offers a fast and furious game of football staring Nintendo characters.
Recore
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 26/08/2016, updated in 2016
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Shooting
Players: This is a single player game
Recore is an adventure platform game where you control Joule Adams, one of the first volunteers for the utopian colony of Far Eden, who wakes after centuries in cryo-sleep to find that nothing has gone according to plan. With her three robotic machines...
Astroneer
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/12/2016, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
Astroneer is an open-world space adventure where you colonize planets by creating habitable structures, farming and mining resources. There is no specific story, although the challenges of each planet give rise to struggles of achievement to placate the...
Hidden Through Time
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/03/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Players: This is a single player game
This is a spot the item game that also takes you on a journey through different time periods. You are task with finding specific items and must zoom, interact and uncover things to find each one.
FIFA (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/12/1993, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @EA
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
FIFA is one of the two main football video games (the other being Pro Evolution). Each year it's released with improved visuals, more realistic physics and enhanced competitive play. For those that follow the game closely and play it a lot, it offers a...
Call of Duty Modern Warfare (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 25/10/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Shooting
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 16 players online
Call of Duty (COD) and Modern Warfare are games that recreate the adrenaline of being in a warzone. The games have walked the line between glamorising this kind of heroic violence and recreating the horror of the experience. Either way, these are games...
Fortnite
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/07/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Shooting
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 100 players online
Fortnite rose to popularity via its Battle Royale mode where 100 players fight against each other in online battles to the death. While they play, using shooting, evasion and building skills to survive, a storm is closing in to make the playable area...
Dauntless
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 21/05/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @phoenixlabs
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Dauntless is an action fighting video game where you play a monster hunter in a fantasy world. Cataclysmic events have released Behemoth creatures that prey on the surviving humans. You play a Slayer you take down the Behemoths, collect treasure and...
The First Tree
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 11/10/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS
Genres: Creative, Narrative, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
The First Tree is an exploration narrative game. In a dream, you explore a forest wilderness as a mother fox looking for her cubs. Simultaneously, you revisit childhood memories in spoken reflection from two lovers remembering the dream and their...
Mirror’s Edge (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 14/11/2014, updated in 2016
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Platform
Players: This is a single player game
Mirror's Edge and the follow up, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst are free-running games where you traverse a futuristic city using aspects of urban exploration and parkour movements to complete missions and evade or fight enemies. The focus is on this...
Catastronauts
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 28/11/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
This is a team-work space survival game where you must take on tasks to keep your ship together and also fire at enemy invaders. Controlling a team of Cat Astronauts, it’s a management challenge as you repair systems, extinguish fires, arm the...
Lost Ember
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/07/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Lost Ember is an animal exploration adventure game. While forward progress is relatively linear, it involves beguiling flying, swimming, digging and running to explore the mysterious world through the eyes of different animals.
Crossout
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/05/2015
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Racing, Shooting and Simulation
Players: You can play this with 16 players online
Crossout is an online vehicle combat game set in a Mad Max, post-apocalyptic world. Players design modular vehicles combine weapons, armour and engines. As you progress in the game you earn currency to upgrade components and access more powerful parts....
A Way Out
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 23/03/2018
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Shooting
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
From the same developer as Brothers A Tale of Two Sons, this is another game centred around two playable characters simultaneously. With another player, you control Leo and Vincent, two convicted prisoners who...
Lego City: Undercover
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 04/04/2017
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Shooting
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Lego City Undercover offers an open world to explore. While most Lego games have an open-world element in at least some areas, this one keeps play open throughout so that children can enjoy exploring at their own pace.
Lego Worlds
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/10/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Lego Worlds takes virtual building back to the classic bricks with familiar figures, buildings and challenges from other Lego video games in an open world where your imagination can go wild in a bottomless bucket of bricks.
Civilization (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 21/10/2016, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Fighting, Open World, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Civilization is a long running strategy game where you develop a society from hunter gatherer to space travel. There are many ways to approach this challenge; socially, militarily, politically or perhaps building wonders to impress other nations.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 06/08/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
This is a turn based strategy game with a large strategic map that lead into multiple turn based battles. You build your empire with one of six unique factions, progress through each faction’s missions using your wits, military strength and diplomacy,...
Everything
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/03/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
This is an unusual game that simulates a world where you can become any object. It sounds strange and not much fun, but the enjoyment is in discovering how small or how big a thing you can become. From tiny atoms to whole planets and everything in between.
Wattam
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 11/06/2019
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Open World and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Wattam is an absurd adventure where characters are everyday objects with problems to solve and fun interactions to enjoy. You play as The Mayor and start on your own. As you complete simple tasks you populate the world with other strange characters.
Baba is You
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/03/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Baba is You requires some lateral thinking. Each level is controlled by rules written on the screen, such as ‘Lava is Hot’, ‘Wall is Stop’ and ‘Flag is Move’. By moving the words around with your pixilated character, you subvert the...
Ghost Trick
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 19/06/2010
Platforms: Nintendo DS and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a game where you play a ghost that can stop time to solve crimes and save lives. You can inhabit and control objects and possess corpses to alter what happens. His ultimate aim is to use his memories to find out how he...
Another World
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 30/11/2019
Platforms: Android, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Platform
Players: This is a single player game
Another World (Out of This World in North America) is a retro cinematic running, jumping and shooting game about a young scientist who, as a result of a failed experiment finds himself on a dangerous alien world where he is forced to fight for his...
Heavy Rain
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 06/10/2010, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure and Narrative
Players: This is a single player game
Heavy Rain is from the same Quantic Dream studio who made Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human. It preceded these games but shared the same branching narrative and photo-realistic aspirations.
Bomberman (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/03/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room and up to 64 players online
Bomberman is the spiritual ancestor to last-player-standing battles like Fortnite and Apex Legends, but here you all play on the same screen and have the same bomb weapon. There are lots of versions, but in all of them you battle with up to eight...
Hacktag
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/06/2017
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Strategy
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Hacktag is a fast two-player game: one player is the stealth ‘Agent’ while the other is the virtually-infiltrating ‘Hacker’. You work with the other player to carry out espionage in different settings and complete each challenge.
Nintendoland
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 30/11/2012
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle, Racing and Shooting
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
This collection of Nintendo games was created for the Nintendo Wii U launch. It uses the console’s tablet screen to create specific roles for different players. In Mario Chase, the hiding player uses the tablet controller screen while the four seekers...
Cricket Through The Ages
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 03/10/2019
Platforms: Mac and iOS Apple Arcade
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Cricket Through the Ages is a competitive sport game themed around cricket but with little to do with the rules of that game. Players face off and aim for each other as much as wickets. Controls work by holding or tapping the screen to spin limbs and...
Mario Party (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/10/2010, updated in 2013
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Racing, Sports and Strategy
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Mario Party (Wii, Wii U, 3DS and Gamecube) is an interactive board game. Players compete in different mini-games to earn the chance to throw dice and proceed around the board. You play as Nintendo characters and take on challenges that make use of the...
Burnout (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 16/03/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: GameCube, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Open World, Racing and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
The Burnout series is an over-the-top racing game where you’re encouraged to crash, bash and ram other cars. Throughout the series the bravado and crashing increases, but they all have the same novel core gameplay.
Wii Sports (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 08/02/2006, updated in 2014
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Fighting, Physically Active, Racing and Sports
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort and Wii Sports Club offer motion-controlled sports. Although these games are well known, the depth each of them offer is a best-kept secret. Games like bowling, tennis and boxing are easy to pick up but require considerable...
Limbo
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: This is a single player game
Control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age-rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways. But this is not without reason. Rather than violent...
Cannon Brawl
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/07/2016, updated in 2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Fighting, Shooting and Strategy
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Cannon Brawl is a two-player battle where you collect resources and build weapons and defences, all in real time. It’s shout-out-loud fun where one wrong shot can let your opponent get the upper hand. Each battle is as frantic as it is silly. To win...
Towerfall
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/06/2013
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Shooting
Developer: @Exok_Games
Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room
Each player selects a pixelated knight and fights to eliminate opponents by shooting them with arrows or jumping on their heads. The arena is a single shared screen. What makes it so competitive is the limited resource of arrows and the ability to dodge...
Nidhogg
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 12/09/2014, updated in 2014
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita
Genres: Action, Fighting, Rhythm and Shooting
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Nidhogg is a fast two-player duelling game whose simple visuals belie the skill required to defeat your opponent. The novelty is that upon death you reappear in the next screen. The player to advance through the most screens wins.
Joust Mania
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 11/06/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Fighting and Physically Active
Players: You can play with 16 players in the same room
This movement-sensitive game of tag is played in the real world, holding PlayStation Move motion controllers. First appearing as one of the games in the Sportsfriends pack, and then evolving as Joust Mania with more modes and up to 16 players, it’s an...
Horizon Chase Turbo
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/11/2018, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Racing
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
This is an arcade racing game with the focus on competitive fun rather than realism; its graphics make it look like it was plucked from the nineties’ arcades, with a nod to Outrun and Lotus Turbo Challenge. It balances modern affordances with retro...
Halo (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/11/2001, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting, Narrative and Shooting
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 16 players online
Halo is the longstanding sci-fi shooting video game series that started when Halo: Combat Evolved launched alongside the Xbox in 2001. The franchise has featured on every Xbox platform since then, with Halo 5: Guardians serving as the latest entry in...
