Release Date: 25/09/2018
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Forza Horizon 4 is a thrilling racing game where you race all manner of vehicles across a wide range of landscapes. This fourth iteration is set in the United Kingdom, with Edinburgh’s narrow streets, the Lake District’s hills and rainfall and the...
Release Date: 05/11/2021
Forza Horizon 5 is a fast-paced racing game where you drive all manner of different vehicles in races and across the vast open landscape. Building on Forza Horizon 4, this fifth entry to the series is set in Mexico,...
Release Date: 13/10/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
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.
Release Date: 16/11/2021
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Moncage is an adventure puzzle game, where you find a mysterious cube. Each face displays a different scene and by rotating and interacting you can change your view and how they overlap with each other. You navigate through the island and the factory by...
Release Date: 10/02/2020
Platforms: PC and Web
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 traversal, vehicle administration and driving skill.
Release Date: 07/10/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Puddle Knights is a puzzle game where you use your cape to protect nobles from stepping in mud. While it may not challenge the ruling elites, it does create an intriguing challenge with steadily increasing difficulty.
Release Date: 07/03/2019
Tick Tock: A Tale For Two is a narrative-driven puzzle game played simultaneously with a friend, where you must escape an eerie world created by a clockmaker. It's unusual because each player's game is slightly different and must be combined to solve...
Release Date: 28/06/2017
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona (often called just Warsim) is a simulation management game where you rule a medieval fantasy kingdom. The twist is it's all depicted as text, through which you interact with your subjects and enemies, decide how you want to...
Release Date: 07/07/2022, updated in 2022
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
A Building Full of Cats is a hidden object brain game where you search to find and pet all the cats in pictures of each room. You play by tapping on the hidden felines in monochrome illustrations of different domestic scenes. If you find all the cats in...
Release Date: 10/05/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Dead Cells is a running, jumping and fighting game where you are escaping a prison. In a bright pixelated world you must accurately time attacks and dodges to defeat a wide range of enemies. It's intentionally hard, and you will die a lot. But each time...
Release Date: 30/10/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
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.
Release Date: 08/11/2018
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
11-11 Memories Retold is a narrative adventure about two young men caught up in the first world war. A young photographer who joins the western front in Europe to impress a woman, and a German technician who's signs up in search of his son who is...
Release Date: 16/08/2016
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
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.
Release Date: 18/10/2021
Against the Storm is a construction-based strategy game where you build outposts, towns and villages in an eternally rainy world. Unlike other city builders, this is a game where you attempt and fail over and over. Each run you use intricate gameplay...
Release Date: 28/10/2015, updated in 2019
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.
Release Date: 04/09/2020
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.
Release Date: 16/09/2022
Ankora: Lost Days is a puzzle adventure game where you explore the wild planet Ankora. As you play you craft different tools, build structures and create a new home in this friendly survival game. It stands out for the simple overhead perspective,...
Release Date: 15/02/2022
Platforms: Mac and PC
Arctico is a meditative, exploration and base-building game where you play a lone scientist on a quest to continue your mentor's legacy and grow food in the arctic. You explore the vast frigid wilds of the island of Arctico with your sledge dogs, create...
Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
This game offers hunting-and-harvesting gameplay in a primal setting. Although not as polished or streamlined as a game like Horizon Zero Dawn, this is a more ambitiously open world where you can choose your own way to survive. With crafting and...
Release Date: 12/09/2013
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...
Release Date: 23/09/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
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.
Release Date: 16/12/2016, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
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...
Release Date: 28/05/2020
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.
Release Date: 31/10/2018, updated in 2018
Bad North is a stylised strategy fighting game. You control an army defending an island and must train and develop your forces efficiently. The simple visuals and knife-edge Viking combat along with the jeopardy of losing precious troops make this a lot...
Release Date: 29/10/2009, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Bayonetta 3 is the latest fighting game in the Bayonetta franchise, where you use fantastical guns and outlandish attacks to defeat monsters and hordes of enemies in fast-paced combat. As you move through the stages, you attack enemies with your wide...
Release Date: 12/11/2019, updated in 2020
Bee Simulator is a strategy game you play as a honey bee, flying on expeditions from the beehive to collect pollen, fight wasps and perform missions ordered by the Queen, as well as participating in races and dancing rituals. Along the way you'll learn...
Release Date: 08/05/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Before We Leave is a city building simulation and strategy game. Humanity has been living in bunkers after a great calamity, and are emerging to start a new life by building farms, industry and trade routes throughout the solar system. It's an unusual...
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Biped is an adventure game where two players closely collaboration to walk through levels, solve problems. It has unusual controls and friendly cute characters that make it great to share in the family.
Release Date: 09/06/2021
Black Skylands is an adventure game where you pilot an airship through a sprawling open world of floating islands. You play Eva, who's ship has been destroyed and father killed. Your task is to rebuild your home from the deck up, arm and prepare for...
Release Date: 01/12/2011, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
The Bridge Constructor games are a series of physics-based building challenges to make stable bridges over chasms and ravines. While it's a simple concept, the variety of locations and different geometry means that building a stable bridge requires...
Release Date: 21/09/2019
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling is a role-play game reminiscent of the Paper Mario games. You play three bugs, Vi, Kabbu, and Leif, as they search for The Everlasting Sapling. Explore, level-up and take on fun battles in this lovable adventure.
Release Date: 22/04/2021
Buildings Have Feelings Too is set in a city where buildings can walk and talk. Not only that, but each has aspirations, hopes and fears. Your job is to create a city that works for all the buildings, a task that will see your city planning pulled in...
Release Date: 26/10/2017, updated in 2020
Don’t be put off by the name and theme of this intriguing game. Bury Me My Love is an adventure played by choosing responses in what looks like a messaging app. You take the role of the husband of a Syrian migrant travelling to Europe. As the game...
Release Date: 10/03/2015, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
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...
Release Date: 21/11/2022
Climber: Sky is the Limit is a survival climbing adventure, where you scale the peaks of the highest and most famous mountains in the world. Plan the best route, select the correct equipment and avoid dangerous hazards as you ascend. It's a unique blend...
Release Date: 10/11/2022
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Common'hood is a squatter simulator where you craft the means to survive in an abandoned factory. You work to create a thriving community by growing food, constructing shelters, workshops, and eventually high-tech manufacturing. It stands out for the...
Release Date: 16/10/2020
Crown Trick is a fighting adventure game in a dungeon where monsters only move when you do. You play as a girl with a magical crown that grants mysterious powers over a maze-like dungeon, giving you complete control of the speed of the battles as you...
Release Date: 19/05/2015, updated in 2020
Pieces: Dice
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. You recruit explorers and equip them for what they may face, then set out on your next...
Release Date: 26/01/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Cyber Shadow is a retro running and jumping game where you defeat enemies and dodge obstacles. It combines classic 90's platforming games with modern controls and checkpoints that make it more enjoyable and approachable. Dodge and attack midair to...
Release Date: 14/10/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Dadish is a pair of tongue-in-cheek running and jumping games that are simple to play. You are Dadish - half Dad and half Radish - who hops his way around enemies to reach the ends of levels in search of his lost children. The cartoon visuals and fun...