Browsing Category
Reviews
ColourBrain Disney Edition — Family friendly gaming
Enjoyed by both the adults in our house and loved by the kids, ColourBrain Disney Edition is the type of game that brings families together around the table, it’s fast enough to set up that kids don’t get bored waiting and it’s interesting…
Into The Dead 2 — A headlong hike into zombie hordes
Into The Dead 2 works in pretty much the same way as the original, with you barrelling headlong into the undead hordes, only a handful of bullets to your name. You can control whether you run towards the left or right of the screen, fire…
Finger Guns at High Noon — Battle Royal
At the outer reaches of board gaming is a dark place frequented mostly by the drunk and the curious. It's a place where few dare to tread, yet those who do will often swear by the invigorating ambrosia that they find there. What am I…
Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon — Sowing seeds and planting trees
IELLO are known for their beautifully crafted, straightforward games, often focussing on lighter mechanics and gameplay with a family-friendly feel. Whilst Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon shares IELLO’s usual exceptional production qualities…
Cat Quest II — Purrfectly Charming
Great for players of all ages and a welcome change from over complicated, ultra difficult, gore soaked realism, instead offering a charming, well illustrated and relaxing jaunt through a story laced with canine and feline based puns and…
Escape Room: The Board Game — An escape room in your dinning room
I’ve gone to a few escape rooms, they’ve been expensive yet memorable experiences. That said, I don’t often have time during the day to book up an escape room and organise my friends. Escape Room: The Board Game takes the idea of an escape…
Lonely Mountains: Downhill — Poetry in motion
In a very similar way to Celeste, Lonely Mountains: Downhill tells a story about persevering, only this time the way is down a mountain.
Lornsword Winter Chronicle — Cold Comfort
Somewhere between MOBA, Real Time Strategy, Tower Defense and action RPG lives a game called Lornsword Winter Chronicle. It’s a strange game that tries to answer the age old question of how to make a compelling strategy game specifically…
Ash of Gods: Redemption — New Story, Old Turns
Like most people, I’m a fan of a good yarn. Stories are important, but can they truly carry a video game? After a playthrough of Ash of Gods: Redemption, I’ve decided the answer is, in this instance, no. This turn-based, story strategy game…
Skulk Hollow — A Foxen good time
The relationship between board games and video games is a strange one. Obviously board games came first, and have inspired many a digital conversion — yet sometimes, the opposite is true. Taking the immediacy of video games and translating…
Blood Will Be Spilled — The Good, the Bug, and the Ugly
Whilst it may not be entirely buggy in it's nature, its inhabitants certainly are.
Chronicles of Crime Noir and Welcome to Redview Expansions — Virtual realities
When I think back to my review for Chronicles of Crime, it was obvious at the time that the game was designed with expansion content in mind. After all, several add-on scenarios were available on day one, and, most tellingly, the box…
Megaquarium — Fishy business
When it comes to management simulations, the strength of the area of focus is often the deciding factor between whether a game succeeds or not. Theme Park, for example, excited millions of fans with its theme, despite some relatively…
Pax Pamir Second Edition — A great game about The Great Game
If you’ve never heard of Pax Pamir, then you’re probably not a fan of war games or political simulations — and you know what, that’s totally fine. For those who are fans however, the return of Pax Pamir is something that has been long…
Children of Morta — Family Matters
As you push on further, or fail trying, The Bergson's tale progresses. Driven forward by small cutscenes delivered between breaks in the action, new family members are introduced or new problems are raised in the families home to be solved…
The Bradwell Conspiracy — Smart Glasses and 3D Printers
The puzzles aren’t limited to this though, as about a quarter of the way in, you acquire a device called the SMP. This allows you to scan, deconstruct, and copy certain objects in the environment, assuming you have the resources to do so.…
Police Stories and my tragic tales of twitchy trigger fingers
Put your reaction times and tactical thinking to the test in brutal top-down shooter Police Stories.
Pixel Game Maker MV — Easy Peasy Game Development
Pixel Game Maker MV gives you the tools to develop an action or platformer title. It then throws a very easy to use, visual scripting system on top and allows you to easily add multiplayer features with minimal effort.
Drunkgeon — Grape and grain
Up until now, I think that every drinking related board game I’ve played has been strictly a party game, usually with a real focus on drinking and very little actual game. Drunkgeon, whilst undoubtedly linked to the consumption of alcohol…
The Ancient World: Second Edition — Old dog, new tricks
In Ryan Laukat’s The Ancient World: Second Edition, each player will take control of a city state vying for the attention of five migratory tribes, fleeing from rampaging titans. To do this, each city must be bigger, better equipped and…