Can you guess how many times I misspelled Gylt in this review and had to go back and fix it? Every...damn...time.

There's never been a better time to be a fan of 2D, multi-plane beat 'em ups. With the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle, River City Girls, Fight 'N Rage, Streets of Red already out, Castle Crashers making a comeback this year, and Streets of ...

It's all a matter of perspective. If there's one thing Superliminal hopes to hammer home -- thoroughly, repeatedly, exhaustively -- it's this. There's no single universally-correct approach to every problem. Sometimes creativity is nee...

Fans of the sublime Ori and the Blind Forest will want to tune into The Game Awards next month, as host Geoff Keighley has revealed that Moon Studios is set to raise the curtain on its equally charming follow up, Ori and the Will of the Wis...

Last week, my birthday took me one step closer to 40, more than late enough in the day to consider myself middle-aged. That's halfway toward 80. Ergo, it's more than possible I'm halfway through my personal turn on this mortal coil, and alt...

Far too many times I've booted up a decently technical roguelike, not liked the presentation, and decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. On the other side of the spectrum, visuals and charm can count for a lot in a frequently frustrati...

Destructoid has had its share of ups and downs over the past 12 years, but there's one thing about us that has never changed: we want to give everyone a chance to be heard. That's gotten us in trouble more than a few times, but without that...

After a string of duos, the Epic Games Store is back to giving out a single video game this week, but it's one worth nabbing. The next time you're in a classic Ninja Gaiden mood, you'll be glad The Messenger is only a few clicks away. The r...

Independent studios Dim Bulb and Serenity Forge have announced that tall tale adventure Where the Water Tastes Like Wine will be coming to consoles later this month, following on from its quiet release on PC in early 2018.Where the Water......

I had been looking for an excuse to cover Garden Story, a ripe little adventure RPG coming to Steam next year, and today I've got a great one: there's a limited-time demo from November 12 to December 21. The Autumn Town demo runs about hal...

Devolver Digital has announced that the particularly gooey looking horror title Carrion will be coming to Xbox One in 2020, alongside its PC brethren, giving console players the opportunity to sample the delights of being a gross amorphous ...

The Falconeer isn't your everyday aerial combat game. Instead of zipping around in high-tech aircraft, you'll take flight as a big ol' bird in an ocean world full of warring factions, airships, and manta rays. "Using ranged weapons, the ga...

We love Katamari Damacy, and I'm confident we'll also love Keita Takahashi's latest oddball, Wattam. It's been such a long time coming, but the friend-making puzzle-adventure game is about to launch. Look for it to land on PlayStation 4 and...

[Update: Headcannon developer Simon Thomley has announced that the Vertebreaker crowdfunding campaign has been cancelled. After the project reached only 5% funding after its first week, the team decided to pull the plug on the Kickstarter. ...

At this point, I'm convinced you could make a simulation game for any niche on this planet. On one end, we've got Microsoft Flight Simulator – a jaw-dropping recreation that lets you fly planes around the world above eerily accurate l...

Today's contest features Switch copies of top-down shooter Ritual: Crown of Horns! Did someone say "weird?" Y'all know I can't resist weird. The second things get a little outside the ordinary, I go from zero to sixty-nine instantly. INSTAN...

I remember the first time I sat down to play Jamestown (also known by its full name Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony) back in 2011: it was bliss. Not only is the premise incredible (an alt-history Mars that mirrors colonial co...

A few weeks ago, we reported on an intriguing new title, Chorus: A Musical Adventure, that had begun raising capital on crowdfunding website Fig. Well, it appears plenty of people are ready to give it once more with feeling, as the unique l...

Publisher Graffiti Games has released a new video for arcade-style shooter Bite the Bullet, which is bringing its retro-flavoured action to PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch next year, courtesy of indie developer Mega Cat Studios.Described a...

Do horrible things to your liver in today's contest to win a PC copy of Afterparty! Oh, that pesky Satan. He's always doing stuff that's kinda evil, but also kinda tricky. It's like the scales are tipped against you when dealing with him. Q...

Indie developer Good-Feel has released the first trailer for its twin-stick shooter Monkey Barrels, ahead of its upcoming release on Nintendo Switch next week.Monkey Barrels is the story of two simian pals who set out on a quest to rescue t...

One of the creepiest video games to release in the past few years didn't come from one of the more well-known developers of horror. It came from Airdorf, an indie-outfit that used lo-fi graphics and sound to create something along the lines...

According to its lead designer Robert Kurvitz, stylish indie RPG Disco Elysium is headed to PS4 and Xbox One in 2020. The developer revealed the ports in a new interview with The Escapist."The immediate plan, and this is why I won’t g...

Enter our contest for your chance to win a PS4 or Switch physical copy of Forager! I know I say this every time, but giving away limited physical editions of games is my favorite thing to do. There's nothing quite like having something sitt...

Halloween is a weird one. Once considered a Pagan holiday that celebrated the connection between the world of the living and the dark worlds of hell, it's morphed into a celebration of being benignly "bad" in a variety of ways. If being hol...