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Bumpy Grumpy is an arcade racer about a nightmare commute
Dodge and near-miss your way through traffic as you race to work in Bumpy Grumpy's cool, arcade style. Mommy's Best Games are at it again. If you're a fan of arcade-style games, but are not aware of their previous work (which includes games…
Tom the Postgirl allows you to see everyone’s dark secrets
Tom the Postgirl is a story-based, point and click adventure game that is full of dark humor and slightly creepy scenes. Tom has the job of delivering packages all through the town, however beyond being someone just delivering items, you…
El Paso, Elsewhere – Not Liverpool or Rome
Luckily, the weapons are fun to use and can dispatch most opponents in just a few shots. The pistols are solid enough options, and your shotgun will destroy those annoying knights in a single blast with a little luck. I found myself leaning…
True Crime Stories has you solving real-life crimes
The genre of true crime and solving mysteries has become quite popular in recent years, so it’s no surprise that there are board games that put you as a lead detective! True Crime Stories is a little unexpected, however, as you aren’t…
PDP Wireless Afterglow Controller – Feels PRO
The PDP Afterglow Wireless Controller for Nintendo Switch feels almost as good as Nintendo’s own Pro Controller, and adds a beautiful light show all of its own. My abiding memory of third party Nintendo controllers harks back to the N64…
Dog Park is a breezy walk through the park
In Dog Park, players take on the thematic role of a professional dog-walker, and must build out their collection of customers (dogs) and focus on specific collections to score loads of points. With bidding, set collection, variable…
Rogue Voltage has you plugging in and organising your tools
Rogue Voltage is a mix of a roguelike deckbuilder and an automation game, creating something unlike I’ve ever seen before. You will be connecting your own modules, which allow you to make a sort of machine. This machine is then used to…
PDP Afterglow Wave Controller – Take Control
Firstly, there are two programmable buttons on the back of the controller where your middle fingers would likely fall. These are nice to have but aren’t as programmable as I might like. In real terms, you can simply duplicate another button…
Horizon Forbidden West: Seeds of Rebellion is one to keep an eye on!
We’ve all experienced the disappointment of a ropey adaption. Be it from page to film, game to screen or when established fantasy worlds are transported into the board gaming universe. These sorts of things can often feel like cynical cash…
Football Manager 2024 plugs feature holes for the strongest release in a long time
Perhaps obviously, Football Manager is back, and equally obviously, Football Manger 2024 is better than ever. Of course, whether it's good or not isn't the question, the question is how much better it is. I'm over a season into Football…
ORX is a delightful RTS twist on a board gaming classic
Sometimes a game comes along and builds out an existing formula, scaling up something that had felt like a finished product that couldn't be improved upon. Sometimes the thing that gets scaled up isn't even the same kind of media. ORX has…
Snap Ships Tactics blends fast paced fun with deep strategy
Snap Ship Tactics is perhaps both the most obvious and yet unexpected idea that I’ve seen in board gaming. It takes a simple, snap-together construction toy and turns it into a head-to-head tabletop duel reminiscent of Fantasy Flight Games’…
Wavo POD Streamer Kit – ideal for podcasts!
It seems everyone has a podcast these days with an ever-increasing number of people finding ways to share and ultimately monetize their interests and talents online. Usurpingly there is an expanding array of choices when it comes to…
Havendock has you building your own world, trying to survive
From your start stranded on an island, Havendock challenges you to build up your own world, create something sustainable, and help others who have been displaced. This game looks a lot like mobile adverts for something similar, that circled…
World of Horror – It’s a mad world
Larger confrontations are more interesting, with you having options like clapping and bowing in the correct combination to banish your foe, or perhaps using an ally to distract them. I appreciated these more as they put a thrilling…
Eternal Palace takes painting by numbers to a whole new level
The Emperor can be tricky to please. Eternal Palace from Alley Cat Games is designed by Steve Aramini with art by Quentin Regnes. This dice placement game sees players take on the role of Chinese nobles seeking to earn the most imperial…
Tales from Candleforth brings you into a horrifying world
Tales from Candleforth is a horror-filled 2D point and click adventure game where fairy tales were written in a forbidden book. Now, years later, the text is mixing with the pages of the story itself, twisting them around, and creating a…
Dragonkeepers challenges you to control a shared spellbook to herd dragons
Herd dragons and complete magical amulets and gems in order to win in short and approachable Dragonkeepers. There aren't too many games that come in A4-sized boxes and promise a humble playtime of 20 minutes, especially not ones that scale…
Hauma – A Detective Noir Story has you solving puzzles to find out what’s happening
Hauma - A Detective Noir Story is, as you may have guessed, a narrative-driven detective game. Here you play as Judith, an ex detective who is looking to figure out what's afoot in the higher society of her homecity. This narrative…
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun gives us GrimDoom.
Warhammer 40,000 has gone a surprising amount of time since it was last pivoted into a gore-soaked boomer shooter, but Boltgun has more than made up for it, as one of perhaps the most obvious adaptations of the universe, but also one of the…