“ICE quoting Halo is surely as close as I’ll get to hell this week”, I said to myself earlier. “Hold my beer,” interjected Manor Lords publishers Hooded Horse, before diving into a flyblown burlap sack and fishing out the press release for Darkwood 2. Did you ever play Darkwood? It’s the survival horror game about being a hermit in a horrible, horrible, top-down forest. It’s the game that persuaded Adam Smith to mercy-kill his dog. The new one is set in “the scorched deserts of a dying sea” that is slowly being engulfed by evil trees.

