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Dead by Daylight – The Walking Dead Chapter – All Hail Rebar Jim
Dead by Daylight continues to churn out content, and as you may have read from my previous review of DbD and its Five Nights at Freddy's chapter, I am a huge, huge fan of this franchise. I'll do my best to set my bias aside in this review,…
Sulfur — Keeping it Close Quarters With The Melee Update
Sulfur — the highly successful dungeon crawler roguelite, not the element — has recently had a new update focused on melee weapons. Four new weapons to be exact, which grace our favourite cultist-fighting priest’s hands and can now be found…
9 Kings is an engine-builder all about army and base optimisation
9 Kings simplifies base-building down to an almost entirely pure form by bringing in auto battler mechanics and silly numbers. As regular readers of the site will know, we zig-zag the lines between board games and video games on the…
Luto – Good grief
I think it’s the sort of game where you need to go into it blind and experience all of its insanity with as little background knowledge as possible.
Flashpoint: Legacy of Flame is a long-awaited update to a cooperative classic
There was a moment in Flashpoint: Legacy of Flame — I think around the third or fourth mission — when I realised that I wasn't playing a rehash of the original Flashpoint: Fire Rescue, but something more akin to the culmination of 15 years…
The PXN-P5 8K is the budget friendly but premium controller you might be waiting for
There was a time when buying a third-party controller felt like a massive gamble. You’d pick up something half the price of a first-party pad, only to discover it had the ergonomics of a brick, the responsiveness of a sponge, and the…
Moga XP-Ultra Controller Review
I don’t always use a controller for PC gaming, but sometimes — when you just want a bit more precise movement to one of your Souls-likes or have a bit more control over vehicles in GTA and feel the rumble through your hands — then…
Junior Tension is an easy to play family trivia game for ages 6+
If you normally sit there, shouting answers at the TV during quiz shows or happen to be a master of memory, then Junior Tension, and its non-kids version Tension, is a great game for you and your younger children. Specifically aimed at 6+…
Raccoin is a coin-pusher twist on the winning Balatro formula
When you strike gold, you often find more nearby. That's the hope for PlayStack, it would seem, who are back with their next publishing attempt after Balatro. In an attempt to hold onto the bottled lightning of 'hypnotic twist on a classic'…
Faceminer is an incremental twist on training facial recognition software
Boot up your computer, power up your dial-up modem and get ready to become a Faceminer in an alternative-history's dotcom boom. Ah, 1999. Existentialism flooding the cinemas, the UK introducing a minimum wage, a fear of the millennium bug…
Frostpunk 2 expands macro-survival into post-apocalyptic civilization builder
The original Frostpunk was a masterclass in moral compromise. It asked players not just how they would survive, but what they were willing to sacrifice to do so. Now, Frostpunk 2 arrives with a colder heart and a broader scope, trading the…
The Night Shift – Looking shifty
Making things trickier are the mannequins that at first simply stand around. Some of them are active, whilst others are aggressive but it won’t be clear which are which until they actually become active. Your objectives will funnel you in…
Kinfire Council is a 2025 GOTY contender, and it’s only September!
Kevin Wilson has designed a lot of games over the years, but few feel as immediately confident and mechanically rich as Kinfire Council. This is a game that knows exactly what it is trying to be — an asymmetric, competitive worker placement…
Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel is a roguelike auto-shooter with serious atmosphere
Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel doesn’t waste time with subtlety. From the moment you drop into Niflheim, the game throws you into a Norse-flavoured bullet hell where survival is measured in seconds and progression is earned through grit,…
PXN P5 Wireless Controller – Brilliant Controller, Modest Price
The PXN P5 is the slightly cheaper counterpart to the PXN P5 8K, but is still a highly versatile neat little package compatible with PC, Xbox, Playstation and the Nintendo Switch. From its sleek and comfortable design to its highly…
Sandcastles of Burgundy is a great set collection gateway game for all ages
When it comes to discussing games that can be played with the family, there's normally a hard-line between games for younger children and older children. Sandcastles of Burgundy, like many classics, cleverly bridges that gap with a fun,…
Finding Office Furbabies in Secret Paws – Cozy Offices
Sometimes, you need to spice things up in your office, and how better than by hiding dozens of cat statues around it? Yes, Secret Paws - Cozy Offices is another hidden cat object game, this time with a 3D rendering of an office, that you…
Ground of Aces is already a promising military base management experience
You start WAY behind the eight-ball here, and pray you can survive to make it out alive.
Foretales is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure with Upside!
Here at B3, we love a narrative adventure game with cute, anamorphic creatures and a divergent narrative. Foretales, developed by Alkemi and published by Dear Villagers, is one of those rare titles that manages to feel both narratively rich…
Catch the Moon XXL is a simple pleasure that’s out of this world
Everyone loves a game that stops passer-bys in their tracks, and Catch the Moon XXL is exactly that kind of game — a towering, whimsical spectacle that draws gasps from children and adults in equal measure. With oversized ladders, a giant…