Vietnam War has to be the most holistic military FPS ever made
A thoughtful Cornerite drew my attention to this extraordinary Early Access FPS. The email Bekay sent was so arresting and informative, it deserves to be reproduced in full.
Category Other games
Steam recommendations for alphabetical completists
Mildly troubled by the fact that your Steam library doesn’t contain games beginning with all 26 letters of the alphabet? The following list of top-notch time-killers is designed to help completists fill gaps wisely. In its original form THC’s Steam…
Y is for… Yoomurjak’s Ring
My vast Steam library finally includes a game beginning with the letter Y! It was a tough choice, but after pondering your suggestions and perusing the relevant shelves in the world’s largest video game emporium, I eventually managed to turn…
G2K
G is for Grim great-grandparents game. Sound effects are used to great effect in Onthecht, a short but powerful offering by a Dutch dev whose great-grandparents were among the hundreds of thousands of Jews murdered at Sobibor.
A2F
Tally-Ho Corner HQ is feeling decidedly Spring-like at the moment. The lilacs in the dooryard are in full bloom, there are bouncing bunnies on the lawn, and a moment ago, for the first time in around eight months, a little…
The Airflow Trials (Portal with quadcopters?)
At first glance the two circles in the flight game – puzzle game Venn diagram appear to touch rather than overlap. However, peer closely and there is in fact a common sliver – a common sliver populated by novel noodle…
Is Lushfoil Photography Sim the perfect presomnial plaything?
WW2 combat fatigue and 1980s sectarian violence aren’t the best anxiolytics. While my current unwind aid of choice, aerofly RC, generally gets the job done, tonight, for a change, I’m going to let this £10 ramble-em-up cleanse my cranium before…
Commandos: Origins under fire
Commandos: Origins’ first day in ‘enemy territory’ could have gone better. Slathered with ineffective bug repellent, encumbered by a pretty hefty price-tag, and lacking useful kit like rucksacks and D-IX pills, Commandos-4-in-all-but-name has found the past 24 hours a trifle…
Quinquagintaphilia (Game your way back to the 1950s)
DecimusSaxon, one of THC’s older readers, has an urge to revisit the era of his youth via the medium of PC gaming. He asked me for some Fifties game recommendations, and the following was the best I could come up…
Dagger Directive owes an awful lot to Delta Force 1 and 2
Most of the gaming swag/tat I was given during press trips in the Noughties, swiftly found its way onto eBay or the shelves of local charity shops. There were exceptions though. I still slurp hot beverages from an IL-2 Forgotten…
Partisan gets a firm ‘nyet’ from me
Some forgotten PC games deserve eternal obscurity. Recently winched from the Russian bog where it’s sat for the past sixteen years, WW2 RPG Partisan is just such a game.
Inspired by Indiana Jones, Venturous is everything a retro shooter should be
Move over DUSK, Strafe, and HROT; I think Venturous qualifies as my favourite fuddy-duddy FPS now. I was planning to mention this free, standalone Doom 2 total conversion in the current A2Z, but recent experiences in Egyptian tombs and Tibetan…