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Panzer Corps 2: Frontlines – Bulge is a great place to start your PC2 journey
It's odd to instantly go from the German Blitzkrieg to the American (defense ). All new equipment troops, and strategies, but, "Hey... let's just throw you into the deep end".
Ethnos 2nd Edition is prettier than the original, but are the improvements only skin deep?
Things move slowly in the world of board games, and the rumour mill is often turning long before anything actually materializes. This is often true when it comes to remaking older games — and in the case of 2017’s Ethnos, there seem to have…
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking – Chapter-based Hobbit
I am going to admit, this is the second Lord of the Rings board game I have played, and I have still not read the books or seen the movie. However, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking Game, is a simple to follow,…
Monster Train 2 – To hell and back
If you played the original, Monster Train 2 is more of that but with a few new twists. For the uninitiated though, your job is to complete eight fights on the way to the centre of heaven, picking up new cards and abilities between each…
Chains of Freedom is a tense and highly intriguing tactical RPG that is well worth your time
Where once the squad-based tactical shooter was a rarity, I feel that these days I’ve been inundated with them. This is a good problem to have as long as new entries to the genre, such as Chains of Freedom, pass the simple “is it as good as…
Pax Augusta is a (mostly) pleasing old-school city builder
While I much prefer the challenge of reviewing console-based strategy games, the dedicated Romanophile in me does occasionally surface in order to pick up the occasional, exceptional PC based strategy game. The last of these was 2019’s…
KIBORG – Updates Needed
Roguelikes used to be somewhat of an enigma to me. I never used to see the appeal of smashing my head against a wall over and over to progress in small increments. Then I got shown some very good ones, such as Slay the Spire, Cult of the…
Clair Obscura: Expedition 33 is an incredible modern take on the classic JRPG formula
From the moment Clair Obscura: Expedition 33 boots up and almost without fault across its 25 to 50 hour runtime, the player will be treated to a modern masterpiece that wows with its visual and aural delight — often in spite of its macabre…
Doomlings Techlings Expansion bolts new mechanics onto your winning strategy
The Doomlings Techlings Expansion adds modifications into the quick-play, set collection game, giving you the chance to refine and tweak your traits in cool new ways. The Techlings Expansions is one of a bundle of 'booster pack' style…
Joyride is an exciting, vibrant take on the racing genre that videogame fans will love
Well, here we are — no new or particularly exciting racing games in the board game world for ages, yet now we have HEAT: Pedal to the Metal, Thunder Road: Vendetta and finally Joyride all landing in rapid succession. For me, HEAT is still…
Spirit of the North 2 – North Harder
Now, the previous game had similar themes, but this was presented in a much more linear way. Your fox would go from level to level, completing traversal puzzles in semi-open areas. You could explore to find secrets if you wanted, or you…
Spreadcheat – Excel in business
I quite enjoyed this if I’m honest, as some of the puzzles later on become quite convoluted thanks to messy spreadsheet formulae being all over the place — meaning you need to work out which cell will affect which other cells.
Runescape Dragonwilds – A fresh face for an old friend
Jagex have hit out with a surprise new adventure set in the world of Gielinor with Runescape Dragonwilds. It's an exciting new survival, crafting adventure set within the world of popular MMORPG Runescape and was shadow dropped into early…
Blue Prince is a gently challenging, but far too random, puzzle experience
Games like Blue Prince make me wary. With a 90+ rating on Metacritic, this is a game that has met with widespread critical and mass approval, yet it left me feeling a little bit underwhelmed. Blue Prince is a puzzle game first and foremost,…
The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is an epic board game take
Games like The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era don’t come around very often. The size, scope and scale of Chip Theory Games’ latest effort — not to mention the cost of producing it — speaks volumes about the confidence of the…
Doomlings Mythlings Expansion spices up the inter-turn moments
The Doomlings Mythlings Expansion is all about playing out of order and building non-specialised decks. The Mythlings Expansions is one of a bundle of 'booster pack' style expansions available for Doomlings. In this case, it includes 16…
CarGo! – Car Gone?
In CarGo!, you and your co-op buddies are tasked with delivering goods from location to location, with a goal of selling a product for profit. Make enough profit and you’ll earn stars that will unlock more levels for more silliness. You’ll…
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is a Sci-Fi Nightmare No-One Is Ready For
I first became interested in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream about ten years or so ago when it had its first re-release on Steam (having originally been released almost thirty years ago on MS-DOS). I didn’t persevere for very long when I…
Wandering Galaxy is the next app-driven crossroads game from Plaid Hat Games
It’s been a long time since the first Crossroads game — Dead of Winter — was released. Since then, this choose your own adventure style system has been through a number of iterations, with settings that feature living toys, anamorphic…
Evolution: Another World is fun and pretty, but flirts too closely with extinction
It seems completely natural — excuse the pun — for board games to use natural history as a theme. The slow pace, the thematic concepts and the general appeal of animals and nature just seems to be a great fit for the medium. But what…