In Viscera Cleanup Detail you take on the role of the mighty janitor. Armed with little more than a mop, a bucket and a trusty boom-box - your task is to clean up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Viscera Cleanup Detail is a first-person experience which sees you trying to mop up blood, pick up trash and incinerate body parts and you can play all stages in the game solo or co-operatively. In this episode we review Viscera Cleanup Detail from an online co-operative perspective. You can pick up this title for download on Steam for €12.99, although it’s been out for a few years now s ..read more

Bismo and Plom were forever connected by a freak scientific accident and so Ben and John step in and take control to help these two jelly creatures navigate through this platform puzzler. Shift Happens is a co-op exclusive platform game which sees you take control of two characters who can shift their mass with the push of a button. You must work your way through 4 worlds of devious puzzles which require you to make use a range of mechanics you unlock along your journey. In this episode we review Shift Happens from an online co-op perspective. We get a chance to discuss some of the highs and ..read more

John and Ben grab their daggers and start vomiting over food as they get sneaky in the guise of vicious little goblins in Styx: Shards of Darkness. Styx: Shards of Darkness is the second game in the Styx series and it gives you a chance to sneak through huge open environments in a fantasy setting with a friend, while stealing important objectives and assassinating anyone who gets in your way. Styx: Shards of Darkness feels like a hydrid of Hitman, Thief and Assassin’s Creed in a classic fantasy setting. The game sees you sneaking through streets and climbing around buildings with a third-per ..read more

John and Ben hop into their planes and take to the sky to rain down fire and destruction on all in their path in Sky Force Reloaded. Skyforce Reloaded (2016) is a remake of the 2006 vertical scrolling shooter which was originally released on Symbian, Pocket PC and Palm WebOS - bonus points if you remember any of those! Sky Force Reloaded has been recreated from the ground up in glorious 3D with flashy explosions and a gorgeous, coherant and vibrant art-style. After recently meeting up in the UK in real life, we had a chance to play this local-only archade shoot ‘em up on the Nintendo Switch ..read more

We take up the roles of Vincent Moretti and Leo Caruso, a pair of hardened criminals who have been incarcerated and imprisoned for murder and grand theft respectively. A Way Out is an exclusively co-operative third-person action-adventure game with a strong focus on story and the relationship between the main characters. There is no single player game mode in a A Way Out and it must be played co-operatively in split-screen mode - either online or local. We discuss our experience having played through the game on our YouTube Let’s Play Show (see https://shyguys.io) so you can decide whether y ..read more

John and Ben grab their grog, take to the high seas and try their hands at a pirate life full of fighting, plundering and treasure hunting in Sea of Fetch Quests, aka, Sea of Thieves. In Sea of Thieves you embark upon a journey to become a pirate legend. In a shared world filled with other players, you embark upon quests to find chests, merchant wares and skeleton skulls in a colourful and stormy world. We talk about the game mechanics which make this game unique and interesting and share some stories of our time on the choppy seas. Ultimately however, while the PvP moments and stories we sh ..read more

We prepare ourselves for the inevitable zombie-ridden apocalyptic future by honing our skills in Versus Squad - a dual-stick shooter featuring hundreds of zombies and base-building action. Unfortunately, if the zombie apocalypse plays out like this, death will be a sweet release from our frustrating and awkward lives. Versus Squad is a mixture of a sandbox defense game where you get to build the stage that you will be defending and a fast action dual-stick shooter with the usual array of weapons and pick-ups. While the core gameplay and concept is solid, we struggled to find enough in Versus ..read more

Here at Connecting to Host we like our dungeons twisted, winding and mysterious. As Dark Souls was too scary for Ben, John decided that we should try out Necropolis instead to get our fix of brutal and hard-core combat while exploring the depths and hunting for treasure. Necropolis is a third-person action game with rogue-like dungeon-delving with brutal and hard-core combat. Every time you play the magical deathtrap dungeon reconstructs itself with new challenges and mini-quests to explore. With dozens of enemies, tons of loot and a crafting system - Necropolis has a bunch of features to ke ..read more

Lost in the frozen arctic, Lord John and Peasant Ben stumbled across a medieval castle. Upon entering, the two split up (because that always works out well) and ended up trying to escape through a sequence of chambers which required the sharpest wits and the strongest co-operative puzzle solving skills to overcome. We Were Here Too is an online only co-op adventure game in which two players are split up in a medieval castle and need to try to escape. What makes this game unique is that each puzzle the players are faced with will see one player have to do the mechanical work of solving the pu ..read more

Just like most weekends, John and Ben don their druid robes and witches garb to explore a mystical, Mesopotamian-inspired world - this time, the world of Issaria in Moon Hunters. In Moon Hunters you set out alone or with up to 3 friends to solve the mystery of why the sun has stopped rising over Issaria and attempt restore balance in just 5 days, before King Mardokh and the Sun Cultists declare war. As the world of Issaria is procedurally generated every time you play, Moon Hunters offers multiple playthroughs. In each play through you can unlock new character classes, areas and abilities th ..read more