Category Sims

The Road of Life demo leaves me cold

What’s the first thing you do if you’re making a driving game about trucking cargo across frozen Lake Ladoga during WW2? Chap in the ushanka and the Россия без Путина t-shirt? Correct, Sir, you ensure your vehicle handling isn’t blander…

Tim goes/is Over the Hill

Yesterday afternoon, after a brief daydream near Aberdeen, South Dakota led to a maddening* speeding ticket, I parked Sally in the first gas station I came across, and began scanning Steam for a potential disappointment dissipater. Over the Hill, the…

Slow Roads, quick assessment

Most games that irk Seth, my inner rural realism pedant, do it with dodgy flora or agriculture. Slow Roads, a relaxing £6 driving diversion from Topograph Interactive, does it primarily with questionable fencing. Good luck finding a Street View-able spot…

Glider Sim Deluxe reviewed

Front-page handkerchief knot: Remember to use the delightful Glider Sim Deluxe for the next Tally-Ho Corner tour! Since I first encountered it, Joey Sipos’s fuselage-free flight sim has undergone five years of Early Access tweaking and gained a feature that…

Medway Meander (Part 2)

It would be criminal to leave Kent’s county town without talking about the ferocious battle that occurred here in the Seventeenth Century, or mentioning at least one of the wrong’uns who’ve spent time in the local clink.

Medway Meander (Part 1)

After those unfortunate events in the St. Gotthard Pass and the so-called ‘River of Tears’ incident in Calabria, I thought it wise to mothball Tally-Ho Corner Tours for a spell. Now the press has found new whipping boys, and memories…

Corner Confessions #2

Corner Confessions is for sharing guilty gaming secrets. Secrets like… I yearn for the days when graphics options screens consisted of nothing but a resolution selection, and a detail slider with three choices: low, medium, and high.

3×3

Want to turn a green lane into a brown lane, tow a Gulaschkanone across a snowy field, or roam the Western Desert trashing Axis airfields? Get a 4×4. Want quick introductions to games of interest to realism relishers and old…