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Ghost Giant — Feeling Boo
Ghost Giant is a game that greatly encapsulates the willingness to help and tells a story of Louis, a cat who just wants to help his mother.
Magic Mansion — Floor to floor traps
Magic Mansion, a retro-styled arcade platformer, sees you trying to scale a never-ending tower, with traps on every floor. This adorable mobile game challenges you to climb up the tower, taking on each floor with its traps and monsters.…
Kodama (and Kodama Duo) — Spirited away
Kodama (and recent two player standalone/sixth player expansion Kodama Duo) are among the cutest of all the small box card games that I’ve played. What these games lack in size and apparent complexity though, they more than make up for…
Forget the world is on fire — Play Bunnybuns
Bunnybuns puts you in the shoes of a bunny who owns a small bakery and wants to make some dough.
Heaven’s Vault — Words of the past
Even something so seemingly boring as looking at broken pottery and random words from thousands of years ago can be made interesting — and that’s what Inkle’s Heaven’s Vault tries to achieve.
Elevenses — Cutthroat tea time
Having the best tea party out of all of your friends is the aim of the game in Elevenses. Elevenses is a cute yet cut-throat card game which sees you trying to make the best tea party that you can as a 1920s socialite, all before someone…
Outward — To boldly go
What makes Outward unique, however, is that it supports split screen cooperative play and is arguably even more demanding than the games that inspired it. Outward is an ambitious, open world RPG from Nine Dots Studio and publisher Deep…
Wingspan — Soar to greater heights
Ornithologists: prepare your binoculars for the birds of Wingspan.
Feather — Friendly skies
Feather is a beautiful game where you fly around an island as a bird.
Generation Zero — Robot end wars
If you’ve had your fill of zombie-based, post-apocalyptic survival games, but still have room in your heart for the genre then perhaps Generation Zero’s robot based carnage will appeal. Generation Zero is a cooperative online shooter from…
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! — It’s a challenge on Nintendo Switch
When Cook, Serve, Delicious! came out on PC, I was all over it. I played a bunch of the game, getting perfect days, designing a menu that met my taste and generally enjoying creating my own restaurant. When Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! came…
Forum Trajanum — Forum the Emperor!
2018 was a year in which there was not one, but two Stefan Feld games themed around ancient Rome. The first, Carpe Diem, is a relatively straightforward tile drafting and placement game where players act as wealthy Patricians. The second,…
All the Delicate Duplicates — A cerebral trip down memory lane
The reality-bending premise of All the Delicate Duplicates is strong, and even with some errors, it was deeply satisfying to uncover clues in the small but ever-changing environment.
Horizons — To boldly go
Have you ever dreamed of travelling through the stars, exploring new worlds and exploiting their resources to fuel the expansion of your species? Horizons is certainly not the first board game to help this dream materialise, but it is one…
TumbleSeed — Patience is rewarding
The fate of the word is left to a seed, the only seed that can move across the land guided by a platform below them. TumbleSeed has you controlling a seed which sets out to explore a world full of holes, desperately trying to not tumble…
Warparty — Jurassic lark
Leading a stone age tribe, training dinosaurs, using your own magical power — all this and more can be found in Warparty. Since the days of the Super Nintendo and Megadrive, dedicated console fans have repeatedly shown their appreciation…
Kanagawa — Paint your masterpiece
In Kanagawa, players take on the role of art students in 19th Century Japan. In a time-honoured tradition, the students will compete to improve their skills, expand their own studio and compete to make the best impression on their master.…
Foundation — The picturesque, village-building beta
Like your cities all higgledy-piggledy? It’s time to sink your teeth into Foundation, a non-grid-based city-building game based around mediaeval villages.
Sushi Bar — Keeping a conveyor belt full
I am not a huge fan of idle games, but sometimes they get me hooked. In my challenge of finding all of the mobile, food-based games, I ended up with Sushi Bar on my phone. I knew it was an idle game, but in fairness, I needed to give it a…
The Fantasy Trip: Legacy Edition — Dungeon master and commander
It’s not every day that you’ll see a re-release like The Fantasy Trip: Legacy Edition. In fact, it’s a game — or rather a system — that I think will surprise a lot of people with both its accessibility and it’s flexibility. As the…