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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…
Pirate Borg explained
If you're looking for a rules-light, dark Caribbean TRPG setting, one that takes place in the time of piracy but is littered with the undead, the monstrous and the eldritch, then look no further than Pirate Borg. Pirate Borg is, when it…
Volcano Princess has you raising the next monarch
Volcano Princess is a bit of a cross between a tamagotchi game and an RPG adventure, where you need to make sure that your daughter is well taken care of and raised right, so she can become the best princess the land has ever seen. …
Ghost Blitz requires fast movements!
Ghost Blitz is a bit different from the tabletop games we have previously played, and actually works better with smaller groups of people. It’s a game that has a collection of wooden pieces and a deck of cards, challenging players to very…
Mothered – Help! My mom is a mannequin!
Mechanically, this is very simple to play, with there actually being quite limited interaction. I could see some people arguing that this is a walking simulator, a term that I’m not a fan of, but there’s a certain element of puzzle solving…
Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance takes real-time tactics to the fallout of Judgement Day
Rebuild a resistance against the machines and save humanity in Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance's real-time-tactics. I was a little blindsided by the Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance demo. At first, I had thought it was going to be a string…
Everspace 2 – Room for two?
You can end up with a fleet of ships to hop in and out of when you head to home base, or you can sell them to get a new model. They feel quite different too, with powerful, armoured Vindicators being quite sluggish when compared to the…
A Castle Full of Cats is a spooky hidden object game!
A Castle Full of Cats is a hidden object game where you are looking for various cats within static screens to help you unlock more doors, go through lots of levels, and learn more about the cats that are living within this massive castle.…
Ghost Castle, the classic 80s board game, is a fine fit for Halloween
Ghost Castle is back, perhaps you never knew it the first time around, but it's back now. The early seventies game, Which Witch?, was a classic, race-to-the-finish board game with a tower-powered trap gimmick that made it instantly…
Mind the Gap is Line-Hopping Fun for All
From the iconic map design to its succinct and distinctly British cautionary phrase the London Underground is instantly recognizable. Mind the Gap is a game about negotiating the subterranean network beneath London, hopefully with more…
Punzel das Spiel challenges you to escape the castle
It’s a classic childhood tale; The princess is stuck in the castle, waiting to escape. Punzel das Spiel is a simple looking point and click adventure game, with minimal story and a big focus on puzzle solving and social interactions! …
Tenderfoot Tactics—Turn-based strategy fans rejoice!
Sometimes reinventing the wheel is as simple as realizing what each wheel does right and finessing those traits into a brand-new Mega Wheel—an ethos that translates quite well into the creation of Tenderfoot Tactics. Tenderfoot Tactics is a…