LAIR OF THE CLOCKWORK GOD

Developer/publisher Size Five Games

Format PC

Origin UK

Release 2019

Two years in development but a decade in the making, Lair Of The Clockwork God is a return to the genre with which Size Five Games first made its name – or, more accurately, its previous name, Zombie Cow Studios. Just don’t call it a comeback. “I know it feels like we’re going back to point-and-clicks,” Dan Marshall tells us. “But in a lot of ways I never really left them.”

That said,, while sequel celebrates its tenth anniversary this month. Since then, Marshall has worked on the Channel-4-funded edutainment game , the underrated one-on-one shooter , steampunk stealth Roguelike and football parody . “I think I need to go away and do different things, I need that creative space,” he says. “If I’d made adventure games solidly for my entire indie career, I’d have gone potty by now.”