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Extra Ordinary — a horror-comedy, now with its own little game
Extra Ordinary adapts a horror film into a minigame selection. We have been playing it.
Corruption 2029 — Slow and steady wins the race
Corruption 2029 won’t hold your hand, but that’s what makes it so satisfying. Developed by The Bearded Ladies, Corruption 2029 has players engage in tough-as-nails tactical combat that mixes stealth and strategy using a squad of robotically…
Blockbuster Board Game puts your movie knowledge to the test.
Test the movie knowledge of you and your friends with the nostalgic Blockbuster Board Game — a 90s themed game designed for anyone who has ever seen a movie, by Big Potato Games.
Art and Soul — Trüberbrook
Trüberbrook is a gorgeous game about things not always being what they seem.
Kanagawa Yokai is the expert expansion that might just ghost past you
If you look back at our Kanagawa review, you’ll see that I fell in love with its soothing, beautiful artwork and the undemanding nature of the gameplay. In Yokai, the first and only expansion for Kanagawa to date, players balance risk and…
Coffee Talk is as refreshing as it is sweet
Much like a cup of coffee, Toge productions’ Coffee Talk is both simple-seeming and complex. It's a narrative experience that left me feeling warm and more than satisfied. From the start of my playthrough I could see the love and care that…
Sky Rogue ー A Rogue Flight
Feeling somewhat like Afterburner, but no longer on rails and with a slower pace, Sky Rogue has you fly around a small set of islands fending off enemy aircraft and destroying buildings. Success sees you earning money to upgrade your plane…
Minecraft Builders and Biomes is one of the best video game adaptations
I’ve played a terrible video game adapted into tabletop experience before. The Super Mario Bros. The Powerup Card Game is one of the worst video game adaptations I have ever played. With that in mind and a love of Minecraft, I wanted to…
Disintegration gives you RTS and a hoverbike
Disintegration has you speeding around on a gravcycle, commanding your crew of Outlaws to victory below you.
Iconoclasts — Fight the Power
Following the well-established Metroidvania system of gated progression through tool, weapon or item acquisition, Iconoclasts presents a surprisingly complex map with a high number of secret or unattainable items early on.
Young Souls is a beat-em-up about twins with ‘tudes
Young Souls mixes punk and medieval to create a fresh, fun beat-em-up with RPG elements.
POSSESSION: a Daemonic Card Game full of demons
As a brand-new board game maker, it can be extremely difficult for your project to get the reach and excitement it deserves. It can be even more difficult to get people on board (sorry) to try a whole new type of game altogether. Luckily,…
Jam Favorites: Bitsy Jam: Rat
There are a ton of game jams happening online at any point during the year. Many of these jams follow a theme and a timeframe, giving developers the challenge of creating a game within a specific jam’s restrictions. I am able to record…
Art and Soul — Fugl
Fugl is a voxel-art game about transformation and discovery. Its use of voxels defines more than just the art of the game, but the experience as well.
Space Grunts 2 — Can’t quite lift-off
Space Grunts 2 still has the potential to be a great game, and hopefully, with more time and new development focused on expanding its already solid mechanics, it will become the game that it can be.
Take your loved one to play Museum this Valentines Day
With hundreds of beautifully illustrated cards and a thought-provoking theme, Museum is a recently fulfilled Kickstarter that focuses — as the name might suggest — on complex set collection. In Museum, two to four players operate as the…
Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is scary, fast
Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, a new FPS that pushes the Quake engine to its limits, throws hordes of enemies at you with one hand and offers you powerful weapons to slaughter them with the other — all while you run around gothic environments at a…
Keep moving Forward in Forward.
Over the last year, I have started really enjoying card-based games. Forward, a game from the 7DLR challenge feels inspired by Slay the Spire. It's an experience where you can slowly move forward, a card at a time, trying to defeat monsters…
Otto & The Ancient Worlds has moves like Mega’
Otto & The Ancient Worlds combines the moves and weapon formulas from Mega Man with the whip from Castlevania to make a unique platformer that is both fun and fresh.
Tapestry takes time and effort to unravel, but the result is worth the wait
The expectations placed on some board game designers are, simply put, too high. One designer who finds himself in the (both enviable and dubious) position of being considered among the very best of all time is Jamey Stegmaier, the…