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Sometimes, the most straightforward ideas are among the best. Empire of the Ants takes an idea so simple — that of the tiny, highly social and surprisingly intelligent insects referred to in the title - and transforms it into an almost…

Enough milking these cow puns dry, on to the review. Herd Mentality is a party game for four plus players from Big Potato Games. In Herd Mentality you are aiming to be the first player to round up eight bovines. Achieve this by aligning…

Digital Eclipse’s Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord delivers a new but rustic coat of paint to the 43-year old granddaddy that inspired some of the biggest RPG franchises out there. When I was gifted a review copy of the game, I…

History. You either love it or hate it. Well, that or you like very specific, niche bits of it. The main reason for that is because its so vast, but its also not relatable — people don't draw the same connections between it as they do with…

You’ll enter the dungeon with a small backpack and a handful of basic equipment, normally a weapon, shield and a consumable item. You’ll move around a node-based map, finding treasure and events as well as enemies to confront. Combat is…

Turn-based, squad based fantasy games seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days, but the danger of assuming that they're all similar means that you'll risk missing promising titles like Zodiac Legions. There's a chance that, due to its visual…

Stunning, captivating and full of cute outfits, Infinity Nikki is likely going to end up being a mobile game that I will actually play! This is a massive feeling, open-world, slice of life adventure game full of secrets, places to explore…

When it comes to filling some of the extra time in the evenings, or during the school breaks, we often tend to crack out a simple board game to play with the kids. Junior Colour Brain is perfect for this situation, and suitable for almost…

Sushi Battle Rambunctiously is much like the title; where you and your friends play as Sushi, who battle around free to roam, single screen maps, trying not to die. There are tons of chunky, fun sushi characters to pick from, as well as…

Time flies, doesn’t it? I still sometimes think of Everdell as a brand new entry into board gaming, but it’s been over five years since we rated Everdell as our favourite game of the year 2018. Five years is definitely long enough to learn…

The best offense is a good defence if Dig or Die's core gameplay loop is anything to go by. More than a few years back, before Battle Royale's became the hot new thing, sandbox games were having quite a big moment. It was then that Epic…

From the very first moment that Space Marine II boots, you can feel the crushing weight of the Warhammer 40k lore bearing down upon you.  We’ve seen the quote “in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war” so many times now…

A lot has been said about Cyngi: All Guns Blazing, and even before it was officially available I’d started to see people offering opinions that suggested it might be something special. Now that it’s been out for a few weeks, we know a lot…

I have memories from when I was about seven or eight years old of using my dad's graph paper to plot maps for a game that I was never able to fully realise. It was some kind of adventure through forests and mountains, and in my mind it was…

Ascend to the golden temple in this multi tiered worker placement puzzle for the gods. Don’t you want your potato?

I am not sure what I picture Heaven to be, but The Holy Gosh Darn has a version of heaven that can be destroyed, is primarily full of dogs, and has angels that haven’t even met God! It’s a wild place, and one that needs saving. You play as…

Save the woodlands by cleaning up a mysterious goo and the creatures that it has afflicted in Nif Nif, a deck-building, run-based game designed with approachability in mind. Nif Nif, if you haven't already gathered from the imagery, is a…

Hire a crew, take to the seas, collect bounties and save the world in Seablip, a freeform sailing adventure. After a while of obsessively searching most people reach a point where they stop and suddenly realise that the search itself had…

I feel like I’ve played a large number of word-based puzzle games, as there are just so many out there. LOK Digital, however, does something completely different, as you don’t actually need to know any words to solve this puzzle. You just…

Strap in and get behind the wheel for a frantic race to the finish line set in Corvus Belli’s infinity universe. There are no banana skins in sight or Koopa shells to swerve in this high tech raucous racer. Plasma canons at the ready and…