There’s a library in Skin Deep that really isn’t screwing around. It’s in outer space for one thing, and for another its calm, ordered stacks are protected by fidgety electrical gates that zap you if you’re trying to move through them with a book you haven’t checked out. Check enough books back in, meanwhile, and you’ll be rewarded with a gun. I suspect this place is a librarian’s dream. Read more

One of the loveliest books I’ve read in the last few years is J. L. Carr’s short novel A Month in the Country. The book’s about a lot of things – and I may have written about it before on Eurogamer – but, broadly, the novel concerns a veteran of the first world war who turns up in a small village up north to uncover a piece of art that’s been concealed in the church. For a month he works in the church, restoring a lost mural element by careful element, having nightmares of the mud and gas at night and making tentative friendships during the day. Nothing happens and everything happens. At the end, he leaves and is – somehow – transformed by the experience. Read more

There’s a conversation at the start of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that stuck with me throughout. A pair of ex-lovers discuss why they split up: one wanted children, the other did not. It’s the sort of human question that makes a fantasy story – no matter how surreal – a relatable one. Read more

Acclaimed point-and-click studio Wadjet Eye’s gently paced, time-travelling genre-hopper blends elegant puzzling and intricate, affecting storytelling to beautiful effect. Read more

Over 20 years ago, SNK blew the world away with Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Since then, Fatal Fury has become a relic of the past, loved only by those with wrinkles on their face and a place for gaming classics in their hearts. That flickering ember remains dormant no longer with Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, a grand resurgence with more money thrown at it than the next unsustainable AI start-up. But does City of the Wolves have what it takes to carve a home for itself in a market dominated by Street Fighter, Tekken, and more? Judged on what I’ve played, I’d say it’s got a damn good shot at doing so. Read more