21st December
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing over the past few days. This week, we love a nice festive level, tackle some plant-based puzzles, and explore a brilliant open world while wearing some tremendous outfits.
Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.
Astro Bot, PS5
Look, I’ve got so many games on my list that I’m keen to play, but when Astro Bot got a free winter/holiday themed level I had to play that immediately. It’s, as expected, rather lovely. I wrote a completely original song, not at all based on an existing Christmas classic, to celebrate its release.
Botany Manor, Xbox Series X
Welcome to the last weeks of December, aka: the weeks where we play ‘Let’s mop up all the millions of great games we missed from earlier in the year’. I’ll be honest, readers, despite playing loads of games from January to March this year, and then another truckload in these latter months from September onwards, I’ve got a great big gaping hole of games I’ve missed from the spring and summer months – something I’ve been trying to rectify with some rapid-fire quickplays lately to see what grabs my attention and what doesn’t.