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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…
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami – Silly and Challenging
I love ducks. I love salami. Clearly, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami has somehow hit a weird cross section of things that I am interested in. This narrative-driven detective game has you becoming the Duck Detective, who has run out of…
Cryptmaster – Spell slingers
This wordplay ties into pretty much every element of Cryptmaster. Combat is driven by it and takes place in real time, with your heroes having cooldowns after each word. Type “hit”, and your warrior will strike a blow, whilst “sing” will…
Ransom Notes – Fridge Magnet Fun
Ransom Notes is an adult party game where players are tasked with grabbing random fridge magnets and creating sentences that may or may not make sense. This is the type of party game that works well with groups of people that have the same…
Nacon Revolution 5 Pro Controller – Worth the price?
The Nacon Revolution 5 Pro Controller is quite an expensive alternative controller for the PlayStation 5. It’s one that has a mass of of features, however does feel like its missing something when compared with other controllers of similar…
Happy Salmon is an incredibly fast-paced matching game
Matching cards gets up and out of its seat with Happy Salmon, a game all about clearing your hand by performing the actions on the cards when you pair up with others. Happy Salmon is probably one of the simplest games that I've reviewed…
Broken Roads – Wasteland Walkabout
As I get older, I find that I am rarely surprised by new games — I’m not saying that everything is a rehash of something that came before, but I guess I feel that we’re running out of themes, mechanics and settings and that leads to…
Stargate: Timekeepers – SG Wannabe?
Your team members are not even remotely hardy, dying very quickly if a firefight opens up. In fact, if you’re spotted and there’s even a hint of open combat, you may as well load your last save as you’ll probably be swamped and killed…
Team GB: Ready Set Win – Planning Teams for the Future
Team GB: Ready Set Win challenges players to create teams that are battling it out against each other in the Olympics. You will spend your turn trading in specific points for members of your team, who will then be needed when their activity…
Project 13 – Unlucky for all
Project 13 is another entry in the rapidly-growing 3D spot the difference genre. If you consume much gaming content on YouTube, you’ve probably seen The Exit 8 crop up here and there. If you aren’t familiar, it’s a game in which you walk…
Cards vs Gravity is a card-stacking game of careful balance
Stacking games, as well as other physical games, have intrinsic ties to both the toys that we played with as a child and also with idle-hands activities like cairn-stacking and the assembly of house of cards. Cards vs Gravity takes this and…
Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom is a great platformer with no jump button
With a name like Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, there's probably very little imagination required to start conjuring up an image of the kind of game that it is. If your mind goes to Crazy Taxi, from catching the odd screenshot then you might…