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Zombies!!! — Greens and brains
Every fortnight, some of the team at B3 meet up to play tabletop games together, trying out new games and playing some old favourites. This week, we played Zombies!!! by Twilight Creations, Inc.
River City Girls — Girl Power !
Played out in either single player or couch co-op with drop in/out functionality, River City Girls sheds the common theme of muscle-bound freaks and dark gritty scenes within previous entries in the genre for a lighter, sassy and…
Technotopia Early Access — Platforms provide paths to pinch paintings
In Technotopia, you play as the Red Guy, who is approached by the Green Guy — a green square, perhaps unsurprisingly — who asks you to steal paintings.
Robotech: Ace Pilot — Dice blast
There are lots of dice based minigames emerging in the market, but few of them carry the same level of interest as those with big licenses. Robotech: Ace Pilot is a brand new “small footprint” game from Japanime Games, who recently…
Blasphemous — Sinners Rejoice !
Blasphemous starts out as it means to go on, awakening on a pile of bodies. Those bodies seem uncomfortably familiar until you realise that they are the ones that came before you. Immediately thrown into your first boss battle you can see…
Watch is a perspective-twisting narrative platformer about loss
Watch is a narrative driven platformer, with Fez-inspired controls where you change perspective to progress through the story. Watch requires that you view the same world from several different perspectives in order to find the way forward,…
ESport Manager — Middle Management
You’ll get to decide whether you’re a MOBA team (think DOTA 2 and League of Legends) or FPS (Counter-strike and such) before being dropped into your base, ready to develop your team into a world-conquering colossus.
Sea of Solitude — Fighting the monster within
Sea of Solitude is the tale of Kay, a girl who fights the monster that is depression in a city drowning with despair.
War Dogs: Air Combat Flight Simulator WWII — Drop Torpedos
War Dogs: Air Combat Flight Simulator WW II is a smooth-control flight simulator featuring loads of planes from Germany, UK, USA, Japan and Russia. I don’t know much about the fighter planes that were around during World War II, but War…
Puzzle your way to city-planning success in Concrete Jungle
Concrete Jungle is dense and can feel like several games compressed together, but compressed in such a way that the complexity and spark of each idea is still preserved. At its core, it's a puzzle game constructed around deck-building, set…
Futuropia — The future is fairly bright
Generic looking Euro-American people are shown on the box of Friedemann Friese’s Futuropia, they dance awkwardly at an almost empty discoteque, relax on beaches and enjoy open fires with their friends. This is because they have achieved…
Slay the Spire — Build a deck and gain relics
Scale the tower and defeat the corrupted heart in card-based roguelike Slay the Spire. I am not the biggest fan of deck builders — I don’t like designing decks around strategies because I am not good at planning ahead. Slay the Spire,…
Age of Wonders: Planetfall — Golden Age
With deep and meaningful strategy games making the leap onto consoles in unprecedented numbers recently, players have never been so spoilt for choice. Even so, relatively few strategy games have the same grand ambitions as Age of Wonders:…
Kind Words — Spread love and compassion to strangers
Anonymously share your worries with strangers and receive support in Pop Cannibal’s Kind Words — a unique experience that feels like a warm hug.
Heave Ho — Heave huh
Devolver Digital are becoming connoisseurs of a specific type of character — a red blob with two appendages. Earlier this year we had the wonderful Pikuniku where the titular Piku had only two legs. Now we get Heave Ho where the character…
Fast Food Fear! — Hungry, confusing monsters
You and two to five other players all are cooks in a very fast, very demanding kitchen. Legoblah Swamp is full of monsters, each demanding fast food with very little waiting time. In Fast Food Fear! you need to deliver these orders in…
Bulletstorm: Duke of Switch Edition — Bail on the King baby
Weighing in at just over 10GB you wont need to delete too much from your storage to accommodate Bulletstorm and, with its arcade score-like approach to FPS, it's small enough to retain a place in your catalogue as you keep coming back for…
Valeria: Card Kingdoms (with expansions) — a land of plenty
Valeria: Card Kingdoms is a one to five player game about tableau and engine building in the name of the kingdom, which is being ravaged by threats from all sides. Our review includes content from the base game, as well as the Flames and…
Battlestar Galactica — Elegance and depth in one of the best board games of all time
We take a new look at a tabletop classic in Fantasy Flight's Battlestar Galactica.
Gloomhaven — Gather Your Party
When it comes to modern board games there are few as iconic as Gloomhaven. Weighing in at over 10 kilos of physical mass, and boasting one of the largest boxes you could imagine, it’s also the one game that is perhaps most suited to a…