David Wildgoose


69 games reviewed
72.5 average score
80 median score
73.9% of games recommended
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10 / 10 - Disco Elysium
Nov 4, 2019

Disco Elysium is a detective RPG that sets a new standard for storytelling.

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Apr 15, 2021

Disco Elysium is a detective RPG that sets a new standard for storytelling.

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As a remaster, Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139… represents another kind of second chance, this time for a cult game to find an audience that eluded it the first time around.

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Jun 15, 2022

Beautiful, charming, smartly-designed and a joy to play, Please Fix The Road is one of 2022’s best puzzle games.

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Nov 18, 2022

Through interactions with these people and many others – the insights into their lives gleaned from talking to them while they work, or the hopes and fears they reveal around the dinner table as you share pottage and bread – Tassing comes to feel like as real a place I’ve ever visited in a video game. As the months and years roll by, you feel those layers settling in, the weight of decisions these people have made – and that you’ve made too – shaping the history of the place.

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By paying the 1994 original the utmost respect – retaining core systems, quirks and all, while changing on peripheral aspects entirely for the better – Nightdive Studios has rebuilt a classic game into something significantly better.

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9 / 10.0 - GRIME
Aug 9, 2021

Grime is a highly accomplished Souls-like action-RPG that delivers a hefty challenge without being punitive.

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Oct 22, 2018

Return of the Obra Dinn is a startlingly original detective adventure full of murder, mutiny, and monsters.

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Dec 5, 2018

An emphasis on stealth, scouting, and ambushing give Mutant Year Zero's tactical combat a thrilling spin.

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With embellished diplomatic options and climate change bringing new strategic choices, Gathering Storm is a whole new way to play Civ VI.

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9 / 10 - Eastshade
Feb 25, 2019

Eastshade is a rare first-person open world game about doing nice things and bringing communities together, a genuinely feelgood and gorgeous experience.

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Apr 13, 2020

In Other Waters tells a tense, absorbing mystery through exquisitely minimalist means.

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Jul 10, 2020

Desperados 3 is an elegant stealth tactics game that encourages experimentation.

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9 / 10.0 - Wylde Flowers
Sep 27, 2022

It was perhaps around the time I found myself feeding mulberry leaves to my silkworms so they could produce the silk I need to run through my loom in order to make the fabric required to produce the parachutes the island's meteorologist had requested for her research balloons… somewhere in that long chain of intertwined chores, anyway… that I realised Wylde Flowers was indeed a very good chore game. And by this point my wife was very much in agreement.

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Mar 6, 2019

The Occupation is a smart, story-driven stealth adventure, the sort of game that gets under your skin in ways you didn't even realize.

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The Missing is a dark, confronting puzzle-platformer that offers light at the end of the tunnel.

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Jan 9, 2019

The Eternal Castle Remastered is a stunning, evocative cinematic platformer that recalls a long-past era of PC gaming.

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8 / 10 - Sunless Skies
Feb 6, 2019

The follow-up to Sunless Seas is an adventure that conjures up a journey of endless wonder, where seemingly anything is possible.

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Mar 20, 2019

Hypnospace Outlaw is a time capsule of the late '90s internet that has a message for today.

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Jul 2, 2019

It's a smartly designed game at its core, despite the distractions. Just like a lone zombie can bring about your demise, sometimes one strong idea is enough.

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