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Teacup has you facing your fears to plan host a tea party!
Sometimes, you just want to enjoy a delightful, cute, colorful game where you can relax, solve simple puzzles, and enjoy the experience. Teacup is a short, narrative driven point and click adventure game that fits the bill. In this game,…
7 Wonders Architects: Easily one of the top seven gateway games
Board games are so vast, so luscious and so packed with interlocking mechanisms these days that I’m beginning to wonder whether making a game that is both simple and brilliant might not be the true sign of a masterful designer. Up step…
Jackbox Party Pack 8 — The box that Jack built
Considering the series started as a somewhat niche quiz title in the mid 90s, it’s gone from strength to strength, embracing streaming and in person competitive and cooperative gameplay to become a party game series beloved by many.
Search for your lost love in Gothic pixel-art adventure, Lamentum
For Lamentum’s main protagonist, Victor Hartwell, life has not worked out as well as it should have. A young aristocrat in 19th Century New England, Victor is delighted to win the hand of his beloved Alissa — but before long a terrible…
Find Funny Animal Creations in Mixups
When it comes to games that can be played with both young and old, often you can find there isn’t much that actually works for all age groups. Our family includes some quite young players; aside from the two adults there's a 5 year old, a…
Terraforming Mars might be board game perfection — and is now infinitely expandable
Post Updated: 5 Nov 2021 - Terraforming Mars Turmoil and The Big Box added to the article I’m going to tell you why Terraforming Mars — in its base form — is the best board game that almost any of us will ever play. Sometimes, the stars…
Heart Chain Kitty — Candy Coated Nightmares
Once upon a time, I watched David Lynch’s 3-hour long nightmare Inland Empire while I was heavily sick, and actively hallucinating from an intense fever. While watching that movie, the faces appeared to shift away from the actual heads, and…
Forged in Shadow Torch (FIST) — Animal Farm
A strong showing from TiGames, FIST is a great platformer with some unique mechanics, smooth platforming and interesting varied combat.
The Wratch’s Den — Building Villainy
The Wratch’s Den has you building a villain's underground lair to reclaim the three Orbs of Infinite Power and awaken the ancient gods.
Minecraft: Farmer’s Market Expansion — More Chaos, more fun
Minecraft Builders and Biomes is a board game that our children really, really enjoy playing with us. Traveling around the area, flipping over tiles to reveal buildings or monsters, and deciding if you want to fight, build or collect blocks…
Elegant Desk Chairs Don’t Need to Look Like Racing Chairs with Lakeland Furniture
When it comes to desk chairs, often gaming chairs are what I tend to see most of in the gaming industry. There isn't anything wrong with that. Many of them look like race car chairs, all the same basically, with different paddings and…
Mundaun — Pencilling in an odd one
I’m going to get this out of the way — this hand pencilled, enigmatic folk horror? It can be an absolute chore to play, and the switch port is in all honesty, a bit rubbish. But Mundaun is an absolute must play. It can grate — any combat…
Damocles Gaze — Soul-Searching in 12 Minutes
Players have 12 minutes to battle their way through an increasingly difficult rougelite as their avatar traverses the sanctums of their soul.
Like the radioative green gems it features, Chernobylite shines brightly — with some downsides
I’ve said this before, and I am sure that I will say it again — there’s nothing better than passing hours and hours of your free time with a videogame that massively exceeds your expectations. Chernobylite is exactly that kind of game, and…
What if Overcooked was Single Player? Well, you’d have Ooops! 2.
Once upon a time, I fell in love with Overcooked, and then proceeded to talk at every opportunity about how it should have a single player mode. You see, I had no friends to hang out with or who would put up with me when it came to playing…
Dice Legacy — Dicing with destiny
All your workers are represented by dice of different colours. Orange peasants are good for gathering resources, working in fields, and building structures, whilst blue soldiers can fight and build, but have no capacity for gathering or…
Xuan Yuan Sword 7 — A Beautiful, Flawed Masterpiece
A brand new ARPG in the Western sphere, Xuan Yuan Sword 7 weaves a tale about kindness, and the lengths that we will go for the ones we love.
Hues and Cues challenges your ability to describe colors
Colors, colors everywhere, but how good are you at actually describing the ones you see around you? And do you and your friends feel that colors can match your description? Well, Hues and Cues is a very interesting, yet simple, game where…
Big Rumble Boxing Creed Champions — Champ or Chump
If you go into it with the right level of expectation; players will find an arcade fighter, great use of a licence and some fun (if not long lasting) one on one competition.
Bristol 1350 sees you avoiding the plague and getting out of town!
When it comes to plagues, I feel that everyone now has had enough experience to understand how illness can be quickly spread and that it's something to be avoided. In Bristol 1350, you are put back into medieval times with a simple goal of…