Rival consoles - this week’s top games
Please Fix The Road PC
£7.19, Age rating: TBC
Please Fix The Road they said. Just connect the route, be it road, river, dirt track or some other material, tohelpcars,boats,andtheoddpink llama get to the finish flag. Easy. And so it seems, at first. But, as you progress through 100+ levels, you will be presented with some devious and tricky situations. The relaxing graphics are easy on the eye, the background music soothing and calm, the transition between levels particularly well-animated and surprisingly, very satisfying. A fun,beautifulpuzzlegamesuitable for all gaming abilities. 8/10
A quite popular import for some time, this squad-based nonlinear adventure now has a localised version for the Switch. Results are mixed. It’s pretty good fun with some nicely-rendered characters and a pleasingly bleak post-apocalyptic setting. However, some of the translations are quite strange and it can be quite unintuitive with objects you seemingly can’t access and glitches with enemy behaviour and lines of sight. But once you get the hang of it, it’s engaging and weird enough to hold the interest. 6/10
PC, Xbox, Playstation, Switch, iOS Free-£8, depending on platform, PEGI3
On the surface, Dadish 3 is exactly what it says on the tin – a game about a dad who happens to be a radish. The game’s pixelated hero has to avoid a range of junk food enemies to save his children, (also radishes) from being turned into vegetable soup. The game is a challenge early on, but even from the first level, it is charming enough to get you to persevere. What elevates it 3 from the average 2D platformer is the third wall-breaking humour sprinkled throughout, though the pixelated graphics and soundtrack are also a bonus. 8/10
Fall Guys
PC, Xbox, X|S, Playstation, Switch £15.99, free to play from June 21, PEGI3
Battlingaroundobstaclecoursesin the sky, the brightly-coloured jellybeancharactersinFallGuyscanonly do a few things – run, jump, grab and (unsurprisingly) fall. In this rainbow-coloured, extreme version of Total Wipeout, sixty players race to the finish line in a series of themed levels to avoid elimination – whether it be slipping and sliding through a winter wonderland or avoiding gigantic falling fruit while running up a hill. Everything about the game, from the innovative level design to the way the beans waddle and jump, is a sugary delight. 7/10