With visual novels currently all the rage on Steam, it's easy to pass up a gem just because it has a Japanese name like Sayonara Umihara Kawase, a platforming game starring a schoolgirl swinging from a fishing lure. Yup.

"Enough Australian lingo to choke a dingo" is something I'm not proud of saying in the opening moments of the first Ty the Tasmanian Tiger game in almost a decade.

Violence and tension will always have a place in video gaming, but sometimes you just need to go on a journey of discovery in some crystal-filled caves. Let's chill.

In the late 21st century virtual reality has become the world's favourite pastime, and people spend massive amounts of time exploring fantasy worlds instead of fixing bugs and making sure the servers can handle the game launch.

Don't worry, it's only Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015. Or maybe worry. Up to you. Mind the video filled with pixel penis.

One of my favourite PlayStation 2-era action role-roleplaying games is now available on Steam. How much Ys nostalgia can I cram into five minutes?

The screenshots for "retro-survival-horror" InsanZ show off creepy creatures and awesome weapons. In the first five minutes I got toilets, cake-headed skeletons and really cheap deaths.

I know what you're thinking. "I completely missed Pony World 2!" Hopefully the first five minutes of the threequel can get you up to speed.

The creators of Ratchet and Clank and Sunset Overdrive finally take the PC plunge with Slow Down, Bull, a delightfully simple game about a bull and his art.

Piss on everything. If that doesn't work, there's always plan number two.

What deep insight can you glean from a classic video game within the first five seconds of pressing start?

We've never been here before, but it sure feels like we have. It's hard to watch the first five minutes of Axiom Verge and not feel just a little bit Metroid-y.

Being a From Software title in the Something Souls vein, the only thing keeping me from endless death is loading screens and cinematics. Can I beat the clock?

I'd be remiss if I didn't correct my headline with the official tagline for Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries. This is no fairy tale. There's nothing fair about it.

The closest one can legitimately get to playing The Legend of Zelda on mobile is now the closest one can get to legitimately playing The Legend of Zelda on PC. Let's see how much Link is packed into the first five minutes of Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas.

You're a ball of goo jumping, swinging and sliming your way through space. What a coincidence, that's exactly like the main character in puzzle platformer Grapple!

After years of torture and confinement in an underground covert research facility, five minutes in a mind-shattering underground maze should be a breeze, right?

Oh wait, it says here the game's name is Angry Birds Stella POP!. Oh well, too late to change the video. We're just going to have to roll with it. It's only five minutes, no one will notice.