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Death’s Door — Tiny Crow, Big Homages
Death’s Door showcases a best-of in the action-adventure genre. As a crow reaper I faced challenges that never felt insurmountable. A ghastly manor tried keeping me away from its basement. I mazed my way through a temple in ruin. A climb to…
Behind the Frame Is Art Come to Life
Behind the Frame was quite a new experience for me. Often when I hear the words interactive fiction or story-rich I tend to check out immediately; Which is to say I’m not a fan. Yet something drew me to this particular offering from Silver…
The Mind has you guessing amongst friends, hoping to not cost them the game
When it comes to card games, there is a large variety of them. The Mind is a two to four player card game for ages eight and above that doesn’t involve much talking at all, yet has everyone working as a team, trying to complete various…
Imagine Earth dreams of a better Utopia
For anyone who follows my writing, you would be forgiven for thinking that Imagine Earth should be right up my street. Attractive, clever and rammed with content, this global-scale economic and environmental strategy simulator tasks players…
Get Packed is another couch co-op about moving, but slightly more intense
You probably know that we play a lot of couch co-ops in our household. With a family of five people who love games, we spend quite a lot of time playing video games together and one of our favorite things to do is play couch co-op ones.…
Weaving Tides Ties Together A Heartfelt Story
Weaving Tides ties together the story of Tass, and his dragon Kilim in a world of full of fabric and magic.
Vadoran Gardens is a tiny box that reveals an expansive journey
Known for the iteratively popular big box games The City of Kings and The Isle of Cats, designer Frank West and his team at The City of Games decided to try their hand at something a little more portable. Vadoran Gardens comes in perhaps…
Sunless Skies — Sail the seven skies!
Yes, Sunless Skies is a rogue-lite, and a hard one at that, but not in quite the same way as many. Your death doesn’t reset the game, rather you create a new captain, who follows your legacy by claiming some of what you’ve lost before…
YUKI — Still a kid inside
YUKI introduces a unique premise, a bullet-hell roguelike that has you directing your character by holding it in the air like an action figure.
Synth Riders Caravan Palace DLC — King of the Swingers
The content drop includes a handful of songs across the band’s portfolio ranging from tracks taken from the bands 2015 album - , one from the 2012 album “Panic” and up to 2019’s Chronologic
Andor: The Family Fantasy Game is a lightweight adventure from a heavyweight duo
If you look at the back catalogue of Inka and Markus Brand, the couple behind games as diverse and award-winning as Rajas of the Ganges, Village and several games in the Exit series, then you’d be forgiven for wondering how on Earth they…
Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunt — Turok n’ Roll
You are a nameless hunter who travels from their aerial base to a variety of dinosaur infested islands with the goal of hunting the biggest dinosaurs you can find. There’s no explanation for any of this, so just have at it!
Veilwraith is another solo epic from Hall or Nothing
When I last reviewed a game from designer Tristan Hall, I remember suggesting that Gloom of Kilforth was a must have for fans of solo games. Since then, Covid-19 has prevented multiplayer and face to face gaming in almost all its forms, and…
Eternal Starlight — VR RTS Done Right
Graphics are good but it’s the scaling that’s most interesting. Grabbing a ship and moving your hands apart — like stretching dough — zooms in. It can either get you in on the action or be used to investigate enemy ships and show where the…
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf is not the 40k Tactical Strategy game you are looking for
I like to think that reviewers such as myself keep an open mind. After all, games are very rarely made by people who don’t care about the subject matter — especially not when you’re talking about independent games that are created outside…
Ultimate ADOM — Caverns of Chaos (8.3) is a deep dive into the RPG element of roguelikes
Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos is a long-awaited sequel to ADOM, but how well does it build on the classic, dungeon-crawling roguelike formula? The original ADOM, Ancient Domains of Mystery, was released a long, long time ago. First…
1565: St Elmo’s Pay allows you to re-enact the fall of Malta
For Suleiman The Magnificent — leader of the Ottoman Empire for more than fifty years, the siege of Malta was the beginning of the end. With 30,000 men at his disposal, Suleiman had calculated that the 500 Knights Hospitaller defending…
Starship Troopers has nothing on real-time blaster, Project Elite
If I have said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times — real time board games are really not my thing. Do you know what is even more not my thing? Relatively complex real time games. As you’ll recall from my review of Pendulum, I sometimes…
Blue Fire — Precision or Punishment
It’s as if The Legend of Zelda and Dark Souls shacked up and decided to create something with the exploration, wonder and scale of Hyrule but with the enemy difficulty and punishment factor of Lordran
Boomerang X — Passerby Action Blues
Boomerang X is a heroes' passerby-tale of too little too late. You swing around arena style levels. Plucking the chords of a mythical instrument to upgrade your boomerang, to then slow-motion your way behind enemies to expose their…