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Weird West — Wiki wiki Weird, Weird West
The gameplay itself reminds me very much of classic Fallout games, or Desperados if you remember that wild west adventure. You’ll move around an over world map by selecting where to go before exploring your destination. There are towns,…
Clash of Cultures Monumental Edition is the Civ VI of board games
Whilst I’ve previously gone on record to say that Through the Ages might be the ultimate civilization-building simulator, there’s no doubt that it does its thing in a fairly abstract way — as do other Civ builders such as Civilization: a…
Festival Tycoon — Promising start to a new spin on the management genre
Festival Tycoon sees players building and then running their own music festival, responsible for everything from band line-ups to accommodation to man management of clean-up crews. Keeping staff, sponsors, artists and punters happy is a…
Maglev Metro has some beautiful pieces!
We have a person in our board game group who just loves trains, so we have started playing a bunch of train games when they are around! Maglev Metro is a train related tabletop game where you and your friends are all competing to be the…
Backbone — No need to worry about slipping a disc
Arriving in a stylish and well-presented box, there’s very little to tell you what to do beyond a small card showing how to connect your phone. Attach your phone to the lightning port on the right side, pull apart the handgrips, and release…
Sheriff of Nottingham (Second Edition) takes bluffing games to a whole new level
Bluffing has always been a cornerstone of traditional card games, with games like Go Fish, Bluff and S**thead (or your local variant thereof) all being popular classics the world over. But sometimes, a game like Sheriff of Nottingham comes…
Onde — How do you pronounce that?
The sheer amount of fascinating shapes and colours that will appear ahead of you during your journey is amazing. Over the course of your three-or-so hours with the game, you’ll visit underwater worlds, lands in the sky, and a black hole in…
Diplomacy is Not an Option’s high walls smash RTS together with Tower Defence
In medieval-set real-time strategy Diplomacy is Not an Option, the peasants are revolting and unfortunately for you, you're the target of their discontent. Sliding into the 'base-building meets tower defence' space repopularised by They are…
Blood Rage is late to the digital party, but you still Mead it in your life!
When I think of iconic modern board games, Blood Rage occupies the top spot in terms of the genre that is affectionately known as “Ameritrash". This area control game from legendary designer Eric M. Lang and big-budget publisher CMON is…
Stardew Valley: The Board Game is a great adaptation of the video game
I have spent hundreds of hours in Stardew Valley the video game. I spent so much time cultivating my land, fishing, mining, befriending everyone, and otherwise ensuring my farm is perfect. So when I heard there was going to be Stardew…
Grammarian LTD can teach you great grammar
More than a few games have tried to gamify spelling and typing over the years, but most of them, like Typing of the Dead or Scribblenauts, have it more as an input mechanic than the actual core of the game. Grammarian LTD has you take on…
Splash Cars — Making a splash, or a terrible crash?
The police will try to smash you off the road, making your life more difficult whilst other road users will undo your good work by turning the road grey again. In a neat twist though, if you drive near them, they’ll become colourful too,…
Ankh: Gods of Egypt: Pharaoh expansion adds little complexity, but lots of fun
If you’ve read my recent review of Ankh: Gods of Egypt, then you’ll know how big a fan I am of Eric Lang’s epic “Mythic” trilogy. Ankh is a fantastic game in its most basic form, but as with most games launched via Kickstarter, there are…
VR puzzler Tentacular is built for sandbox, but thrives in its campaign
I don't know about you, but when I first heard about Tentacular, a game where you're a giant betentacled beast, I knew that I had to play it. VR seems to be a perfect for anything with even a slight chaos factor — we play games to do things…
5 Minute Read — Space Engineers on console (Xbox Series X)
Open-world crafting and survival games can be daunting at the best of times, but when you take the standard approach to resource collection, base building, survival and ultimately combat and then put it in space; you have an entirely more…
Ticket to Ride: 15th Anniversary Edition is a very special thing indeed
If you’re reading this review, then I’d be willing to bet a lot of money — maybe even a crisp fiver — that you’ve heard of Ticket to Ride. Even if you’re here because you're curious about whether you should take the step of purchasing it as…
Aztech Forgotten Gods — Weight of the Past
I'm not sure where to even begin with Aztech Forgotten Gods, so let's start at the beginning. Almost two years ago Lienzo studio teased an announcement for an alternate reality future of Mesoamérica people. Personally, the project having…
JBL Quantum 610 Wireless — Sound is Survival
The JBL Quantum 610 is more than adequate enough for the discerning gamer with a simple setup, massive battery life, hours of comfort and most importantly punchy, clear audio.
Beat Arena — Band from VR
Beat Arena grants you the opportunity of playing in a VR rock band with classic tracks from Konami titles and the Bemani games.
Happy City is the small box city builder that has universal appeal
How do you define a happy city? Is it the number of shops and banks a city has? Is it the public spaces; the parks and libraries? Or is it access to work via industrial and commercial districts? In Happy City, you’ll balance these decisions…