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Ah yes, the art of making a quality two-player board game is a tough one to master. Perhaps the most commonly played and toughest player count to get right, almost any game needs to cater for duo gamers. Whether the focus is on friends and…

You know those children who really want a pet hamster, but they don't get one because they don’t have the space or somebody knows that they won’t be as fun as the child thinks? Hamster Playground is an answer to this; it’s a wonderful, well…

As an ex home-brewer myself, Brewmaster is a very interesting prospect. I might as well just come out and say it — slotting in somewhere between a walking/narrative simulator and at times an unintentional physics puzzle, Brewmaster pretty…

In those moments where I’d put together an absolutely killer build, playing Vampire Survivors scratched that itch that only the likes of Dynasty Warriors can reach. It’s immensely satisfying to mow down acres of monsters simply by walking…

Sometimes, our tabletop group is particularly big — but many games do not actually work for a large number of people. Sounds Fishy, however, is a really fun party game that works for two to ten players, meaning you can play this game in…

What doesn’t keep you guessing so much is the gameplay itself, which handles in pretty much the same way as its inspiration. Light and heavy attacks, parries, dodge rolls, and stamina bars do exactly what you expect. There are a few things…

All Mine is a mining-themed game where you and your friends are all racing to get a set number of victory points, mining through rocks and seeing what is below. It’s a fun and relatively simple game to play, with a few different phases to…

One game stood out from the crowd thanks to its satirical, shameless humour and surprisingly enjoyable gameplay during my trip to EGX, and that was The Last Hero of Nostalgaia, an action-adventure Soulslike that became a favourite of the…

When it comes to lovely games to spend my evenings with, I often go for slice of life adventure games, where I can just relax and be a part of a village — one that doesn’t have loads of issues going on. Hokko Life feels like a fusion of…

It’s spooky season, and what better way to spend it than with a fridge filled with frights? The Fridge is Red is an anthology horror game featuring six bite-sized experiences for you to shiver your way through, with an overarching plot much…

Sometimes, it feels like developers create games designed for other game developers. Game Jam is one of these games, as it’s all about creating a game and then pitching that game idea without having your studio go bust. This is done through…

Each player selects their god and takes four dice of the matching colour. One player then turns over a card from the centre of the table, and everyone races to stack their dice in the same formation as those on the card. Your four dice…

I am a huge fan of food-based board games, so I was delighted when I saw Sandwich Masters at Tabletop Gaming Live, as it was a new food game I had not seen before, with neat looking art. In this game, you are racing against the other…

Castle Party is a great game for October or Halloween parties, as you are planning out an adorable, spooky bash for all of your monster friends! It’s made for two to four players and takes about half an hour to play, during which you plan…

Since its gameplay reveal back in June, Sonic Frontiers had fans understandably concerned for the blue blurs' newest outing with what looked to be a lacklustre new addition to the storied franchise, and I count myself amongst those people.…

Those puzzles are really solid too, harkening back to the genre’s glory days. Initially, things are simple enough as you find one object to deliver to a person and other such tasks to progress the plot. But by the fourth of the five acts,…

Mechanically it’s similar to more current iterations of card series like Hearthstone and Gwent but at the time was much closer to Magic: The Gathering.

Everyone loves a good cake, don’t they? In Cake of Doom, you have to bribe entire continents to be yours by giving them tasty, tasty cake. It’s a short game, for three to six players, that is full of sabotages, cakes to bribe and a lot of…

When I first read about Trekking Through History, I had no idea that there were already two Trekking games — Trekking the National Parks and Trekking the World. I now understand that the first two games in this trilogy are broadly similar,…

Losses really do matter too, not only because you’ll become attached to your best performers, but also because there’s no going back on that map screen until quite late in the campaign. This means there’s no real way to grind items, money,…