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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…
Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns — Three gems in a plastic brooch
A match three rpg, a killer soundtrack all adds up as an easy way to spend 20 minutes.
Overland — Go west young pup
Overland is a turn-based roguelike that casts you as a survivor on a more-often-than-not doomed road trip through a devastated American wasteland. Driving from the East Coast to the West, you must scavenge for supplies, invite other…
All Walls Must Fall — A Temporal Techno Tech Noir
Berlin, 2089; the Cold War never ended and the Berlin Wall still stands. A nuclear bomb has gone off in the city. It’s up to you and your STASIS operative, Kai, to travel back and forth in time on a single night to figure out who was…
Join the Order of Warlocks in Warlocks 2: God Slayers
Rise to fame and claim your seat in the Order of Warlocks in Warlocks 2: God Slayers! Warlocks 2: God Slayers, ah yes, a game that at first glance looks like it would be incredibly intuitive and unique. Something that any roleplaying fan…
Chocolatiers — Creating cute chocolate boxes
Chocolatiers is a two to five player tabletop game about creating very beautiful boxes of chocolates. I backed it on Kickstarter a while back and have eagerly waited for the day to come when the box arrived. That day was recently, and it's…
Super Slow Sloths — Don’t win the race.
When it comes to sloths, there is one thing that comes to mind — being slow. Sloths are known for being slow, lazy animals, which isn’t really the best for winning things like races. Running? Being fast? Not taking naps? It’s just not…
Senshi — Martial mastery
Senshi, from Arcane Wonders, is a small box, very low key design from Dan Manfredi. The game centres around the idea that each player is one of the titular Senshi — a trainee monk under study from an ailing master. With the master fading…