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Clean Up Earth – Scrubs up well?
As you clean up, you’ll gain recyclable rubbish that you can take to a machine which will turn it into coins or usable resources. Coins can be used to upgrade your Terra Cleaner and its attachments, whilst resources are used in the…
New survivors game R.I.P is a bullet heaven you have to earn
The cathartic flashes, shakes and audible jingles that accompany an end-game run of a bullet heaven are addicting, and have made survivors-likes a staple in the modern gaming scene. Each has its own take on the genre, R.I.P (Reincarnation…
The Marvel MaXimum Collection puts the deserving X-Men front and centre
Marvel MaXimum Collection on Xbox is one of the most sought after retro throwbacks that I can remember. It’s far from just a bundle of old ROM’s, and much more a curated archive of some very specific slices of Marvel’s gaming history.…
Pokopia – Living the Dream with your Childhood Friends
Pokopia has hit the headlines recently as being one of the first Switch 2 must haves, with fans flocking to stores to pick up the console in order to dive in. It probably goes without saying, but Nintendo didn't send us a code for this one.…
Neopets – Mega Mini Games Collection – The Neopian Arcade Odyssey – For the…
Neopets is that nostalgic, internet website that I feel everyone my age played when they were a child. It's a website that I feel like most people have heard of, if not for it's strange past than for the forums and ways that the website was…
Perch Review – Birds Behaving Badly
There are many board games about animals living peacefully in nature. Grazing deer. Industrious beavers. Happy little woodland creatures cooperating under the gentle glow of the forest canopy. Perch is not one of those games. Instead, Perch…
Earth Must Die! Review – Polite Apocalypse, Delivered with Alien Indifference
There are villains, and then there are the sort of villains who gaze thoughtfully at an entire planet and decide, with quiet conviction, that it’s all a bit unnecessary. Not evil, exactly. Just… inefficiently existent. Earth Must Die! is…
Small and simple adventure Under the Island is exactly what I needed
Nostalgia is a powerful tool in the gaming industry with genres like the first-person grid-based dungeon crawler (Hello Vampire Crawlers and Dungeons of DUSK) still resurging in 2026. Under the Island is the latest in a consistent string of…
Arkham Horror The Card Game Chapter Two Core Set Review – A Perfect Starting Point?
There are games that invite you to sit around a comfy table with friends and enjoy a pleasant evening full of laughs and light-hearted competition. Then there is Arkham Horror: The Card Game. This one hands you a flickering lantern, leans…
Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown Review – There’s Coffee in That Nebula
“There’s coffee in that nebula.” Few lines capture the spirit of Star Trek: Voyager quite like that one, and it’s a fitting starting point for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown, a strategy game that puts you in command of the…
Drop Duchy – Princley Puzzle, or Ponderous Pauper?
Drop Duchy - Complete Edition dropped onto Xbox Game Pass early this year, so I decided to take a look at this strange puzzle/deck building/rogue-lite. What I found intrigued me. If you've read any of my other reviews, you've probably…
ICARUS: Console Edition is a flawed diamond in a packed genre
ICARUS: Console Edition is one of the more ambitious survival games to make the leap from PC to Xbox, and in many ways it succeeds in delivering the same atmospheric, punishing, and strangely hypnotic loop that defined the original. The…
The Fortress proves that luck-based games still need agency
Chances to hit, effect procs, damage ranges and luck of the draw have been relevant to gaming for decades – longer if you consider the Pen & Paper RPG origins of those mechanics. Luck can make us cry “Bullshit!” just as easily as it can…
If you like accessible strategy games then this is Dewan you want!
Dewan, from designers Johannes Goupy and Yoann Levet and published by Space Cowboys, is an attractive, thematic strategy game that blends straightforward yet crunchy mechanics with a gentle post-apocalyptic story. It’s clean, elegant, and…
Focus – All about what’s not said
Some board games require a bit of mind reading, and so need someone that you are familiar with in order to play them. Focus feels like one of these types! It's a two player sort of card game (though all of the cards are square) where you…
Dark Quest 4 is a big stab of nostalgia, right to the face.
There’s something undeniably comforting about a dungeon crawler that knows exactly what it wants to be. From Brain Seal Entertainment — the studio behind other gems like Monarchy (which I happily lost an entire weekend to) and Story of a…
When the great eye of The King is Watching, you better be ready to get back to work.
The King Is Watching comes to us from relative unknowns Hypnohead, but is published by the figurative giants tinyBuild. To give you a quick idea of what it's about, Imagine Lord of the Rings, but in this instance the all-seeing eye is not…
Battle Puzzle 2048 Queens of the Abyss – Technically a Puzzle, but not fit for Royalty
EpiXR Games is at it again with another technically playable game with little to no instruction. Battle Puzzle 2048 - Queens of the Abyss (By the grace of the editors, now shortened to BP2048) is a reimagining of the 2048 game everybody was…
Get Bit – Cute meeples, fun game
I was drawn to playing Get Bit at The Dice Box King's Lynn on a recent visit due to how cute the meeples looked. That's not normally something that I really consider, but these meeples were little divers, with detachable limbs, which just…
Krafted Couch Charger – Just Lounging Around
It’s not often that you test something which requires you to quite literally sit on the sofa and put your feet up, but for the Krafted Couch Charger that’s exactly the idea. Featuring a wireless charger built into a silicone frame that is,…