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Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail is an 18th Century Toybox
The peak of rank-and-file warfare during the Napoleonic Wars has always been an area of great interest to me, and whilst the number of Imperial atrocities committed during that age is enough to raise more than a few eyebrows, I still love…
Poly Bridge 2 — There’s a reason I didn’t go into architecture
When I was a wee kid I had a demo for a game called Pontifex. This was my intro into bridge building games — a genre I hold dearly to this day. Throughout the years I had issues with getting a hit of bridge-building since nothing seemed…
Chocolate Fix is a cute, single player logic game
I’ve found another food game! We’ve played a few other chocolate-themed board games (like Chocolate Factory and Chocolatiers) while at tabletop, but Chocolate Fix is a single-player experience where you take on puzzles in an attempt to find…
Choose wealth and notoriety, or take the moral high ground in Beholder 2
I’ve always been a fan of the humble point and click adventure, but in recent years, it hasn’t felt enough to deliver the same tried-and-tested gameplay that made this genre so popular during the nineties. Beholder 2 is essentially a point…
Why am I still playing Perfect Pizza?
A YouTube ad plays on my PC screen - ah wait, it’s a double ad. I stare at the screen, then look at my phone. Almost instinctively, I open Perfect Pizza and make another pie to give to a customer waiting. The game is simple, you make the…
Franky: Rock’n Vegas is the most basic of dice rolling games
There are hundreds of dice games out there, from classics that use regular six sided dice like Yahtzee and Liar’s Dice, to a whole host of modern variants that mix up the formula. Franky: Rock’n Vegas is one such modern take, but with that…
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling — Cheering for Bugs in an RPG
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling tells the saga of a misfit gang of three bugs with a huge adventure in front of them. Using the traditional Paper Mario visual style and fighting mechanics, it manages to both replicate the classic game…
Dawn of Fear may be the worst game you’ll play in 2020
I honestly can’t imagine a better title for a survival horror game than Dawn of Fear. I can only imagine the excitement around the development team associated with this game since I can’t help but feel that the title is the one redeeming…
Project Warlock — Killing Time
If you can tolerate Project Warlock’s issues as I could, then you’ll be in for a brilliant throwback game that deserves attention. Great soundtrack, great visuals, and great combat, just let down by some technical issues.
Property Brother Home Design — I miss American TV
I used to watch a lot of Property Brothers back when I was in America, where it featured on HGTV each week. I love the dynamic between the two twins — one a real estate agent, the other a renovator — as they help couples and small families…
A Space For The Unbound – Prologue dives into dreams
An emotional journey through the minds and misadventures of two schoolchildren, A Space For The Unbound - Prologue is a touching puzzle game. A Space For The Unbound - Prologue follows the story of two school children, one who is writing a…
Skelattack — Difficulty Spikes, Literally
Graphically the style forgoes the ultra-clean, high-resolution approach seen in other recent platformers, but instead utilises a hand-drawn effect and a somewhat faded palette reminiscent of early 1950’s cartoons and put to good effect in…
Dr. Cares – Amy’s Pet Clinic — Become a vet with a rival!
Have you ever had someone in your life that is out to challenge everything you seem to do? A rival, following you around forever, trying to beat you down? Well, in the small town of Snuggleford, Amy Cares has a rival with a storied history.…
In Montmartre, aspiring artists compete for the favour of discerning collectors
I have often found that art is an underutilised theme for board games, especially since good artwork is so critical to the presentation of games these days. The last art-themed game I played was the light eurogame Atelier, but now I’ve got…
Metamorphabet spells fun
When it comes to educational games the gameplay can be as simple as ABC, but rarely are they fun. Metamorphabet feels specifically made to solve that problem. Learning games are often not too engaging or fun, however, Metamorphabet brings…
Travel Across The Grooves
Music can conjure up far more than memories, as Across the Grooves' protagonist Alice learns when she listens to an old gift from a long lost lover.
Kingdomino Duel is a surprising roll-and-write that is quite different to its namesake
When I opened the sturdy, magnetised box of KingDomino Duel, I was expecting something that at least vaguely resembled the original game. What I got, however, was something that looked entirely different to me, to the extent that aside from…
Pax Nova takes 4X from settlement beyond interstellar colonisation
In the biggest 4X games your scale never shifts — in Civilization you conquer the planet, in Stellaris you conquer the stars. Pax Nova allows you to go from conquering a single planet's surface to controlling the whole system. A few years…
Iron Danger is a fantastic puzzle game dressed as an RPG
Rewinding time is a complete game-changer in tight, tactical RPGs — it's also the core mechanic in Action Squad Studios' recently released Iron Danger. I remember staring at Iron Danger while at Gamescom a few years back. Every time that I…
Shantae & The Seven Sirens — Whip your hair back & forth
As with many games of its ilk, and in the vein of its predecessors, Shantae & the Seven Sirens has players advance through areas toward their goal but more often than not return several times across the story as new abilities unlock new…