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Frostpunk 2 expands well beyond the borders and ambitions of its predecessor
When Frostpunk launched back in 2018 it became an instant classic by fusing together base-building, society management and an almost-hopeless post-apocalyptic setting. Frostpunk 2 manages to build on every element of that as it challenges…
Herd Mentality is an amoozing game of following the herd
Enough milking these cow puns dry, on to the review. Herd Mentality is a party game for four plus players from Big Potato Games. In Herd Mentality you are aiming to be the first player to round up eight bovines. Achieve this by aligning…
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord – If It Ain’t Broke
Digital Eclipse’s Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord delivers a new but rustic coat of paint to the 43-year old granddaddy that inspired some of the biggest RPG franchises out there. When I was gifted a review copy of the game, I…
History Heroes: A Little Slice of History is an easy-playing educational twist on dominoes
History. You either love it or hate it. Well, that or you like very specific, niche bits of it. The main reason for that is because its so vast, but its also not relatable — people don't draw the same connections between it as they do with…
Backpack Hero – Spark joy
You’ll enter the dungeon with a small backpack and a handful of basic equipment, normally a weapon, shield and a consumable item. You’ll move around a node-based map, finding treasure and events as well as enemies to confront. Combat is…
Zodiac Legion is an anachronistic Tactical Turn-Based fantasy celebration
Turn-based, squad based fantasy games seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days, but the danger of assuming that they're all similar means that you'll risk missing promising titles like Zodiac Legions. There's a chance that, due to its visual…
Junior Colour Brain is a colour guessing game fit for all
When it comes to filling some of the extra time in the evenings, or during the school breaks, we often tend to crack out a simple board game to play with the kids. Junior Colour Brain is perfect for this situation, and suitable for almost…
Everdell Farshore is the cleaner, tidier sequel to our 2018 Game of the Year
Time flies, doesn’t it? I still sometimes think of Everdell as a brand new entry into board gaming, but it’s been over five years since we rated Everdell as our favourite game of the year 2018. Five years is definitely long enough to learn…
Dig or Die says dig deep and defend, defend, defend
The best offense is a good defence if Dig or Die's core gameplay loop is anything to go by. More than a few years back, before Battle Royale's became the hot new thing, sandbox games were having quite a big moment. It was then that Epic…
Space Marine II brings the 41st Millenium to the next-generation
From the very first moment that Space Marine II boots, you can feel the crushing weight of the Warhammer 40k lore bearing down upon you. We’ve seen the quote “in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war” so many times now…
Cygni: All Guns Blazing is the best shoot-em-up I’ve played in years, but it’s also far…
A lot has been said about Cyngi: All Guns Blazing, and even before it was officially available I’d started to see people offering opinions that suggested it might be something special. Now that it’s been out for a few weeks, we know a lot…
Agemonia – big, bold and brilliant
I have memories from when I was about seven or eight years old of using my dad's graph paper to plot maps for a game that I was never able to fully realise. It was some kind of adventure through forests and mountains, and in my mind it was…
Tawantinsuyu: The Inca Empire – Gain fame and influence!
Ascend to the golden temple in this multi tiered worker placement puzzle for the gods. Don’t you want your potato?
REM Racers – Race your way to victory
Strap in and get behind the wheel for a frantic race to the finish line set in Corvus Belli’s infinity universe. There are no banana skins in sight or Koopa shells to swerve in this high tech raucous racer. Plasma canons at the ready and…
Tales from Candleforth – Wycan
The narrative is told in an interesting way, with lots of visual interpretation and foreshadowing, even though this game only clocks in at two hours or so. It’s helped considerably by the hand drawn art style that gives everything an almost…
Terminal 81 – End of the line
Each day Lorena heads to work, chats to the locals, and heads home. Before long though, she finds out that young women have been disappearing from the area. In fact the position she fills at the store is only as a result of her predecessor…
Rusty’s Retirement is a relaxing cautionary tale that sits at the bottom of your screen
I've now clocked over 200 hours in recent Steam Sensation Rusty's Retirement. I should have written up my thoughts long ago, but, as it turns out, I wasn't at my computer for most of those hours; in fact, I'm playing it right now. Rusty's…
Desolatium – Empty
Puzzles were equally frustrating as well, but not due to them being difficult as such. It’s often fairly obvious that combining something acidic with a padlock will allow you to open a door. The annoyance comes from how difficult it is to…
Distilled is a thematic drafting and set collection game that will leave you tipsy!
There’s no doubt that we live in a Golden Age for thematic board games. Long gone are the days of pasted-on themes about trading in outer space or Ancient Greece, and instead we have games like Distilled, which take the specific passions of…
Watchmen of Destiny challenges you to recruit a band of heroes at all cost
Form a squad of adorable animals through bidding and clever item usage, all in efforts to win the title of the Watchmen of Destiny. Watchmen of Destiny is a set-collecting tabletop game that's all about finding the right heroes, with the…