Alexis Ong

Reactor • 21st October 2026

Swagger, Heart, and Cosmic Horror: A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School by Kuzhali Manickavel

Kuzhali Manickavel’s debut novel is "one of the most delightful books I've read in a minute," writes Alexis Ong.

Eurogamer • 24th September 2026

Roman Sands Re:Build review - a fiendish immersive sim drenched in a vaporwave glitchcore palette

Eurogamer • 18th September 2026

Control Resonant review - more scale, but less narrative bite than its sibling

Eurogamer • 13th September 2026

Inside the weird, wonderful world of Miles Buckle...

A feed of incredible, but totally imagionary retro-style video games becomes a window into nostalgia and fiction.

Eurogamer • 18th May 2026

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies review - it's the RPG we don't deserve

Portofiro loathing in La Luz.

The Verge • 22nd April 2026

The year’s weirdest game is hard to explain and even harder to put down

Titanium Court is a seemingly confusing mixture of many different genres. I can’t get enough.

Reactor • 20th April 2026

Allison Mick's Humboldt Cut Is Ambitious and Full of Personality

"A rich feast of dark comedy, horror, historical drama, and eco-surrealism"

Eurogamer • 20th April 2026

In Moves of the Diamond Hand, the vibes so far are transcendent

Time and punishment.

Eurogamer • 10th April 2026

Esoteric Ebb review - camp and cutting political comedy in a D&D Disco Elysium wrapper

Reactor • 23rd March 2026

Boarding School Trouble and Trauma: Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran

Alexis Ong reviews "a must-read for boarding school fiction junkies."

Reactor • 14th January 2026

Theodora Goss’s Excellent Letters From an Imaginary Country Explores Genre, Gender Politics, and Identity

Alexis Ong reviews a "thoroughly inspiring, beautifully written corpus on the possibilities and politics of place."

The Verge • 5th October 2025

The developers behind a hit sausage-dueling game hope Steam launch will take it furter

Already a hit in Japan, the oddball Sausage Legend is primed to go global.

Eurogamer • 1st October 2025

Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile review - it's just fine

Hercule as a cucumber.

Eurogamer • 13th August 2025

Death Stranding 2 is the World's Fair we deserve

On the ground at the World Expo in Osaka, with Hideo Kojima's game of global connections on the mind.

Reactor • 24th June 2025

The New You Begins: A Thousand Natural Shocks by Omar Hussain

This review of Omar Hussain's new thriller begins in 3, 2, 1…

Reactor • 12th June 2025

Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World Might Give You Nightmares

Vanishing world is set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination.

Reactor • 16th April 2025

A Medieval Myth: Once Was Willem by M.R. Carey

A dark medieval fantasy full of twisted folklore, macabre magic, and the strangest of found families…

The Verge • 14th February 2025

Yellowjackets continues to stretch itself thin in season 3

The teen survival show may have bitten off more than it can chew.

Reactor • 10th February 2025

Waterblack by Alex Pheby Is a Remarkably Self-Aware Series Finale

A review of Alex Pheby’s new fantasy novel

ANMLY • 22nd August 2024

To build something that outlasts the present: a Review of Memory Piece by Lisa Ko

My struggle with Memory Piece began with turning a slow and uncomfortable eye toward my own..

Reactor • 15th August 2024

Beautifully Understated, Effortlessly Atmospheric: Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías

Pink Slime unfolds in my hands with a customary string of lively blurbs, one invoking the well-worn name of J.G. Ballard...

Eurogamer • 18th June 2024

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC review

Reactor • 11th June 2024

An Evocative, Surreal Debut: Mouth by Puloma Ghosh

A review of Puloma Ghosh's new short story collection.

Eurogamer • 10th May 2024

1000xResist review - a deeply personal exploration of diaspora politics and psychology

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