Simon Parkin
Scoring Pattern
Disparity by Outlet
Disparity Over Time
Each point represents a review. Hover for details. Positive = critic higher than users. Negative = critic lower.
Reviews
“This bundle of 50 new games from the creator of Spelunky offers an electrifying range of retro genres rebooted, from point-and-click horror to Pong”
5/11/2024
Launch Window“The dialogue is warm and chatty, and while the storyline and voice-acting have the unsophisticated quality of a Saturday morning cartoon, this only compounds its evocative PlayStation-era appeal. Murayama, who fell ill during the final stages of the game’s development, did not live to see its release, dying in February this year, aged 55. Eiyuden Chronicle stands as a monument to his singular design sensibilities, and a testament to the power of a determined community, both within the game’s fiction, and by its very existence.”
9/2/2023
Late Review“]A sushi waiter is on a mission to bring exotic fish to the table in this stylish, satisfying game that delivers a vital message on sustainability”
“Cédric Babouche's exquisite landscapes evoke the lost land of childhood as a woman in her 30s explores her late grandmother's home”
“You solve puzzles, then create the songs, in this tactile puzzle game spanning genres and instruments, from Ethiopian jazz to krautrock”
12/3/2022
Late Review“Plants can cure or kill in this atmospheric puzzle game.”
11/12/2022
Launch Window“A treasure inspires murder, and your job as detective is to piece together the crime in this addictive 18th-century whodunnit”
10/27/2022
Launch Window“A pretty Sardinian village merges with all kinds of hellish influence in this nightmarish, claustrophic horror from arthouse developer Santa Ragione.”
“This award-winning single-person adventure, set in a run-down refinery town, is full of compelling mysteries”
7/2/2022
Launch Window“Timing is all as you wake from the dead and race towards a heavenly finish line, slaying demons en route, in this chaotic yet ingenious anime-inspired game”
6/5/2022
Launch Window“Your job is to manage a digital influencing agency with commercial and political clients – and ethical challenges”
5/6/2022
Launch Window“Presenting a series of impossible choices, this darkly comedic game stretches the player's moral scaffolding to its limits”
4/9/2022
Launch Window“An Olympic swimmer explores the roots of her compulsion to succeed in this dreamlike 'interactive poem'”
“The quick, free online word-guessing game designed as a present for one is proving a daily gift for all.”
“Soar across alien vistas powered only by kinetic energy in this interplanetary search for the mysterious, life-giving monolith”
10/2/2021
Launch Window“You play a young guitarist exploring your prog-rock ambitions to the full in this richly enjoyable psychedelic journey”
“As a single-celled animal, your options are limited – and yet this gem of a game is a masterclass in minimalism.”
7/3/2021
Late Review“A compelling mission to locate and photograph a series of images in a Māori-influenced world under occupation”
5/1/2021
Launch Window“Part town-planning exercise, part board game, this thoughtful debut gives plenty of scope for strategy and idealism”
4/3/2021
Launch Window“The big bang meets the whodunnit in this dazzlingly inventive point-and-click adventure spanning time and space”