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Shadowrift is a cooperative, hand-management boss fight for one or more players
During the last two months or so, like the rest of the United Kingdom and most of the world, I’ve been confined to quarters thanks to Covid-19. During this time, aside from expanding my collection of unopened Lego sets and drinking too much…
HopBound — A nice friendly game about rabbits
Things get brutally tough as you go on, to the point with this being nigh-on a ‘rage game’ — games that tend to lead to players rage quitting due to the difficulty. In Darius Guerrero’s games, there’s often a purpose to this that ties into…
Monster Train — The road to hell is paved with… well it’s more of a railway thing actually
Monster Train is a roguelike deckbuilder in which the player must marshall the forces of Satan to try and break back into the underworld and relight the eternal flames of Hell. You have to do this because Hell is actually full of angels and…
Cloudpunk — Special delivery
Cloudpunk is filled with flying cars and impossibly tall skyscrapers doused in a future-noir chic.
Go Camping in Wide Ocean Big Jacket
I didn’t go camping much as a kid. I remember going during a handful of summers with a friend of mine from school. We’d do all the camping things — talk with her dad, cook in a fire, explore the camp. Wide Ocean Big Jacket perfectly…
Desperados III is all the tactical stealth action I need — and more!
Whilst I never really clicked with the Desperados series when it first launched almost twenty years ago, I remember considering it to be fairly important because it followed on from the hugely successful, unique Commandos games. Desperados…
On a Scale of One to T-Rex is intense games of pretend
On a Scale of One to T-Rex is a game, not entirely dissimilar to charades, where players perform actions like "Be a T-Rex" or "The Floor is Lava" to a specified intensity — which can produce some truly funny moments. This game is made for…
Alubari: A Nice Cup of Tea is far more intense than it sounds
If you’re familiar with a popular worked placement game called Snowdonia, then it would probably suffice to say that the subject of today’s review, Alubari: a Nice Cup of Tea, is more or less the same game but set in India. Sadly though,…
XCOM: Chimera Squad — No pain, no gain
XCOM: Chimera Squad is set five years after the events of XCOM 2 within City 31, a place where the liberated humans and aliens are trying to peacefully coexist. The titular Chimera Squad is a special unit, the first to consist of both…
Red Wings: Aces of the Sky — Arcade Dogfighting Action
Red Wings: Aces of the Sky closely follows the adventures of famous polish ace, the heroic Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. Players have a choice of either joining his squadron in the Triple Alliance made up of Germany, Austria and Italy;…
Song of Horror — Nothing to do with Daphne & Celeste
Over the years, the likes of Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Fatal Frame (or Project Zero as I knew it) have become the poster boys for the genre, but barring the recent Resident Evil remake games, that static camera, super slow-paced…
Valorant — Bred for competition
Let’s get this out the way from the beginning: Valorant definitely isn’t for everyone. Riot Game’s newest venture, Valorant, is a game with competition at its core, and it’s not ashamed to show it. Does that mean it's bad? No. But this…
Darksiders: The Forbidden Land — The Horsemen Ride Again!
There are additional challenges along the way, including escort quests, bosses to fight, and secret doors to open, but the core mechanics stay fairly similar. You’ll find that your character develops over the course of the chapters — each…
Maneater — Apex Predator or Wet Fish ?
The world of Maneater is presented in a way similar to that in which Saints Row parodies Grand Theft Auto. It’s almost a caricature which accentuates its key points in order to keep the player entertained
Tang Garden — a visual feast for gamers of all levels
It’s 8th century China, the Tang dynasty, and Emperor Xuanzong wants a garden building where he can live with his concubine. Players take on the roles of garden designers, placing tiles in the garden to create areas of enchanting terrain…
A Year Of Rain remains a dry experience
A Year Of Rain promises cooperative real-time strategy. We have been playing it.
Panzer Corps 2: Correctly Improving a Classic
Whether in charge of a Campaign, Scenario, or a Random Scenario, it's your mission to defeat one of the many enemies during WWII. Lead your side to victory!
Foldit Wants You to Save the World from COVID-19
In 2008, the University of Washington offered gamers Foldit, a puzzle simulation that challenged players to bend a 3D model into a specific shape. Points were awarded based on factors including how compact the design was or whether or not…
Huntdown — Run & Gun Fun
Huntdown successfully emulates the gritty ultra-violence of the late eighties and early nineties cinema scene with an excellent electro futuristic soundtrack that accentuates the run and gun gameplay
Metro X takes you on a Draw-and-Write tour of the Underground
Although I’ve only played a few personally, the Roll-and-Write genre is becoming ever more popular among board gamers. Played on a printed sheet with nothing but a pen and a few dice (in most cases) these games are fast and filled with…