Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Contributor

Edwin is a writer from London hailed by peers as "terminally middle-class" and "experienced". He would like to review your speculative fiction game.

Essential | Deathloop review - not Arkane's most surprising game, but possibly its best

All-rounder.

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Essential | Roadwarden review - one of the finest historical fantasies you'll play

Beating paths.

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Review | Dream Cycle review – chaotic procgen spellcraft from one of Tomb Raider’s original creators

From Lara with Lovecraft.

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Recommended | Live A Live review - a game's worth of occasionally excellent, always intriguing JRPG side stories

Gather your party.

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Preview | Live A Live is an RPG about the joy of channel surfing

I wonder what else is on?

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Recommended | Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters review - rich, raucous Space Marine strategy

A grim lark.

10
Recommended | Kaiju Wars review - a gigantically clever strategy spoof

Command & Kongquer.

18
Feature | How games imagine the past and future of solar energy

Eating the empires of the sun.

5
Recommended | Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition review – an RPG that haunts itself

Time crisis.

45
Review | Weird West review - almost, but not quite, a Dishonored CRPG

Dances with werewolves.

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Recommended | Sifu review - gripping kung fu time management through a Western lens

A kick in time saves nine.

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Feature | Playing videogames carefully

Content warning for mention of terminal illness.

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Feature | How is a battle system like a poem?

Active Rhyme.

3
Recommended | Vagante review - a hidden gem, but watch out for the arrow traps

Spellunky.

11
Feature | Looking forward: separating playing from earning

Not For profiT.

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Feature | The games we're looking forward to in 2022

It's a star field.

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Recommended | Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator review - body horror is just good business

Eye for an eye.

14
Recommended | Hunt: Showdown review - a sweaty, stinking, cat-and-mouse masterpiece

Drain the swamp.

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Review | Doom Eternal review - the same orgiastic thrills with a creeping weight of story

Groundhog slay.

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Recommended | Tasomachi review - Breath of the Wild's sky-faring little sister

Link to the coast.

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Recommended | Nix Umbra review - occult horror at its most focused and evocative

Stab in the black.

18
Review | Jett: The Far Shore review - a profound but extremely irritating space odyssey

Pop stars.

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Feature | If Ubisoft wants to cling on to Clancy, it's time to talk politics

By the book.

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Essential | Outer Wilds Echoes of the Eye review - a wondrous, spooky addition to the solar system

Look again.

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Recommended | Psychonauts 2 review - a feast for the wandering mind

Brain-pleaser.

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