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Pikmin 4: Pikmin Clover Patch Nintendo Switch Controller – 90s Vibes!
In the 90s, I use to really love collecting electronics with transparent casing. There is just something nostalgic about seeing into devices, and seeing how they work. The Pikmin 3: Pikmin Clover Patch Wireless Nintendo Switch Controller…
Pokemon Labyrinth – Slide around the map
Pokemon, being such a massive franchise, of course has a Labyrinth version. It just makes sense to have all of those little, iconic pocket monsters littered all around a map, waiting for you to scoop them up one-after-another. Pokemon…
Pinball M – Tommyknockers
Brilliantly, the table comes with a campaign of sorts, setting you challenges over multiple attempts at the machine. These amount to scoring targets within time limits, or surviving a certain amount of time on a single ball, but each one is…
Hidden Cats in London has you lighting up the town
There have been a few Hidden Cat games that have made their way to Xbox lately, with the most recent being Hidden Cats in London. You see, these types of games have you looking at a screen, trying to find hidden objects in the picture. In…
Age of Comics: The Golden Years has a unique theme and a familiar feel
Of the many things I love about board games, one of the most prominent is the stories they tell that wouldn’t normally get much of the spotlight. Whilst I am no comic book history buff, I love the theme in Age of Comics: The Golden Years…
Jaws: No Swimming, Beach Closed makes a great 2 player game
If you are a fan of the movie Jaws and simple to pick up and play board games then Jaws: No Swimming, Beach Closed might be the perfect game for you. This board game can be played with more than two players, however only one player can be…
Assetto Corsa Competizione is simply a sublime celebration of GT racing
With its sole focus on GT Series racing, Assetto Corsa Competizione reduces the scope of the original Assetto Corsa, but delivers the kind of focus that hardcore racing fans will love, assuming that they have the skills to match their…
The Invincible centres on out of this world storytelling
The Invincible challenges you to rethink human dominion. It's a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world. Developed by Starward Industries, it challenges you to explore a barren planet and face unforeseen threats. The Invincible is…
Age of Wonders: Planetfall (the card game) crashes down with a bang
When I reviewed Age of Wonders: Planetfall back in 2019, I never imagined that almost five years later, I’d be reviewing a card game about it. Even more bizarrely, when I received said card game, I never expected it to be as good as it has…
Sankoré: The Pride of Mansa Musa proves that higher education takes time
Sankoré: The Pride of Mansa Musa is going to be called a lot of things in this review… It’s clever, it’s beautiful and it’s fast-paced once you teach it, but it’s also daunting and opaque to truly understand, and I’m already predicting that…
Forest Grove – In grove danger
The setup is at least interesting, with you playing an unnamed investigator entering a digital recreation of the family home. An AI has analysed the house itself and recreated what it’s discovered for you to go in and explore without…
Rising Lords’ medieval strategy is fun and beautiful, but mechanically unpolished
As regular readers will know, I’m always the first to put my hand up to review strategy games that make their way onto my console. The latest of these is Rising Lords — a game that feels every bit as though it is still only halfway through…
The Sims 4 Goth Galore Kits brings out your inner goth
The Sims 4 community is really dedicated to the content that is being created for the game, especially as The Sims 4 is now a free game, with tons of different add-ons that you can purchase to change your experience. Recently, the community…
Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcome! will occupy every bit of your free time if you let it!
The last time we experienced a World War II-themed cooperative game, it was Philip duBarry’s superb Black Orchestra: Second Edition. I couldn’t get enough of Black Orchestra at the time, and when I read about Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall…
Twinkly Generation II Squares – A Pixelated Light
When it comes to decorating your gaming space, there was a time when those massive, hexagon lights seemed to be the only thing people wanted. They felt a little bland, however, for gamer caves or people who wanted more than a soft glow of…
Karate Cats and Kung Fu Dogs is a fast-paced step up from Snap
Reflex-based tabletop games and kids are a combo that often seems like it's only a few moments from disaster. Karate Cats and Kung Fu Dogs takes the classic snap formula and adds a few simple modifiers and a fun, animal theme. When it comes…
Estate Agent Simulator is only a pretty good simulator, but a great sandbox
In Estate Agent Simulator, you unsurprisingly play as an estate agent, however — as per recent simulator games — there’s a lot that you can do outside of the core game loop including some RPG mechanics and, bizarrely, crypto trading. Estate…
Rough Justice ’84 – Roll with the punches
You play as Jim Baylor, a former police officer who was set up by a corrupt force and sent to prison. Upon your release, you find that the city’s crime has escalated considerably, and you join a friend’s private security company intending…
Solace State puts you at the heart of a political, emotional powder keg
Technology races ahead, authoritarianism is at a concerning high and activists are being suppressed. Solace State is a narrative adventure game that puts you right in the thick of a political hotpoint. It's easy to look at Solace State's…
World Wonders is a beautiful and generous city builder
In World Wonders from Zé Mendes and Arcane Wonders, players will plan out and construct an ancient city, adding production, food and luxury goods to their output and building monuments to demonstrate their wealth. With more than twenty…