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Simon Parkin

Simon Parkin

Freelance Contributor at The Guardian Australia

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    Recent Articles

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    Now Play This 2025 review – the end of an era of experimental game design

    After 10 fun-packed years, it’s a wrap for the UK’s biggest celebration of indie, communal gameplay. But the folk games at the heart of this year’s edition have now filtered into the mainstream, from Taskmaster to The Traitors
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    Expelled! review – deliciously daft private school murder mystery

    Prove that Verity Amersham is innocent of trying to bump off the head girl in this ingenious whodunnit from the makers of Overboard!
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    Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review – high-stakes sci-fi adve...

    The sequel to the hit cyborg-on-the-run game is text-heavy and dice-based, but also thrilling
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    Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders review – the democratic joy of skiing

    A graceful game of tricks, turns and time trials, as you either race against the clock and other players or just glide through the wilderness on your own terms
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    Ballionaire review – addictive, pinball-inspired strategy game

    Make virtual millions in this deceptively simple game that’s all about bumpers and the luck of the bounce
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    Games: Simon Parkin’s five best of 2024

    A crafty whodunnit, a galaxy of 80s games and a subterranean adventure enthral, while poker with a twist proved addictive
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    The Rise of the Golden Idol review – thrilling 70s whodunnit takes ...

    This ingenious follow-up to The Case of the Golden Idol requires all your powers of observation, deduction and reasoning
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    The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank

    The long read: During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger
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    Wilmot Works It Out review – gently therapeutic puzzler that turns ...

    Fill the walls of your nice big empty house with pictures delivered – in pieces – by your friendly local postwoman
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    UFO 50 review – a galaxy of 80s games brought brilliantly back to t...

    UFO 50 review – a galaxy of 80s games brought brilliantly back to the future
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    Cygni: All Guns Blazing review – a thrilling new space frontier

    The Scottish studio’s debut game is a fiendishly innovative take on the classic space battle genre
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    Voice Mimicry Show review – a gloriously ridiculous party game

    Recreate the bleat of a sheep, a gust of wind or even the sound of anxiety in this riotously lo-fi, low-cost game that unites everyone with its sheer daftness
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    Riven review – ponderous yet powerful remake of the 90s island classic

    This satisfying reboot of the sun-baked puzzle adventure now features VR clifftop walks, new solutions and star turns from fan Ronan Farrow and more
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    Animal Well – beautifully wrought indie underground adventure

    A shimmering subterranean world reveals itself bit by bit to you, an amorphous blob, in this enchanting, intricate game
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    Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes review – rip-roaring adventure fr...

    Head into battle with your own turbo-charged squadron in this crowd-funded Pokémonesque sequel to the the Japanese designer’s classic Suikoden series
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    Now Play This 2024 review – the eccentricity is the point

    A world away from Fortnite and Call of Duty, the UK’s biggest festival of experimental games celebrates quirky one-offs and making it up as you go along
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    Supermarket Times review – surrealist adventure in a store of secrets

    On this delightfully silly journey your challenge is to explore the supermarket aisles, meet the staff – and freezer goblin – and buy alcohol for teenage loiterers. Cheers!
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    Of Two Minds review – a curiously satisfying psychological mystery

    Fusing real movie footage and interactive free-association components, this is a compelling and at times enlightening experience
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    Pushing Buttons: The video game magazines of our youth are disappea...

    In this week’s newsletter: The closure of publications and changes at sites like Pitchfork give us less space to critique and evangelise video games and culture at large
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    Games: Simon Parkin’s five best of 2023

    From the all-action thrills of Zelda to catching your own sushi, immersive worlds captivated
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s campaign is a queasy anachronism

    Uninventive and a little uncomfortable, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s single-player is little more than a fairground ride – but will its players really care?