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Lumina — Chase fireflies as long as you can remember how to get there
Memory games have been around for so long — those games where you flip up two cards and hope that they match. It’s a simple something that even children enjoy playing. Lumina is a board game that takes that simple idea and uses it for all…
Order of Battle: Red Star focuses on the USSR’s fights from 1938-41
In a deliberate, continuing avoidance of the more classic, Western Front battles, The Artistocrats has, with Red Star, started a trilogy of expansions for Order of Battle which focuses on the Soviet's battles through WWII. One of the main…
Casetify — Design and durability
Picking a phone case is something that I have spent a lot of time struggling with. I always want something that looks cute, but I also am quite clumsy and end up dropping my phone to the death. I don’t like bulky items either, so having…
Hanni Honey Bee — a vertical boxed board game
It’s summertime and everyone loves flowers and bees, so Hanni Honey Bee is a great little garden-related game for young board game players to either play on their own or with up to four friends! Hanni Honey Bee has the aim of not only…
Knights will all come tumbling down in Knuckling Knights
Brave heroes — knights — each looking to find their way through a large tower. Knuckling Knights is a two to four player game aimed at children, age four and up, where you must simply roll a dice, put your knights in the tower and hope to…
Donuts Delivery really cares about the placement of donuts
I don’t know about everyone on Earth, but when I go into a donut shop,I don’t really care about where the donuts are physically locked in the box. I guess things would change though if I had teleporting donuts, like in Donuts Delivery. …
Ollie & Bollie: Outdoor Estate has you doing small chores with your friend
It’s sometimes difficult doing outdoor work on your own, but in Ollie & Bollie: Outdoor Estate, you have a fun friend to help you out! It’s all in a day's work, and on this big plot of land, there are quite a few different chores that…
Nordic Warriors Brings Us Tactical Vikings
Nordic Warriors follows the steps of real-time tactics classic Myth. We have been playing it.
Build A Bright Legacy In Sagrada
Sagrada's stained glass windows take on a more calculated form with careful dice placement.
Dream Catchers — Sweet dreams are made by these
There's nothing better than a good night's sleep, sadly sometimes nightmares — and monsters under the bed — are out to ruin that. You take on the role of the Dream Catchers, out to save the da... night. Play Nation Studios' Dream Catchers…
The Romans — Will you be hero or Nero?
In the latest from Ragnar Brothers, players guide the city of Rome from kingdom to republic to empire. Muster armies and send them out across the ancient world to conquer neighbouring lands but don’t neglect Rome herself. Senators must also…
Summer in Mara — mañana mañana
Summer in Mara successfully imitates the dream of living in a tropical paradise, a potentially stereotypical view that the Caribbean-like way of life is one of relaxing, sun-filled days with very little worry or concern entering the fray.
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…