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Grindstone — Razor Sharp puzzler
Grindstone is a puzzle game where chaining attacks on colored creatures allows you to destroy them to move around the room.
Donut Nab — Fast reflexes needed
Fast reflex games have a very specific audience. People who like living on the edge, waiting for a card to be placed so that they can grab whatever is in the middle of the table. In Donut Nab, that item is three different colored donuts,…
RONE 2e — Tidy boxful of post-apocalyptic aggression
In RONE (Races of a New Era) 2 players face off across a post-apocalyptic landscape in a battle for supremacy. Each player has a hero with unique abilities and they must deploy units, tactics and technologies to bring about a grisly end for…
Potion Punch 2 — It’s nearly cooking
Cooking potions and preparing fish is very much like cooking meals, as such, Potion Punch 2 is a cooking game and one I have enjoyed playing. I’ve played far too many levels, got so many upgrades, a favorite character, and yet at level 40 I…
Man of Medan — is it a ship shape successor to Until Dawn?
Until Dawn was one of the five or six Sony exclusive games that first made me invest in a shiny new PS4. Supermassive Games' blockbusting horror game featured an all-star cast, incredible visuals and, most importantly, a heart pounding…
The Surge 2 — Which way to Undead Burg?
The Surge 2 moves the franchise along with a welcome update in mechanics, engine, design and story. The bugs and issues of the original removed, it’s a great application of the Soulsborne formula but with its own distinctive features.
Sayonara Wild Hearts — Musical Neon Love
Sayonara Wild Hearts has you riding on a fantastical neon highway in the sky as ‘The Fool’, the masked biker persona of a girl whose broken heart has impacted the balance of the entire universe.
Flashpoint: Fire Rescue — Hot under the collar
If you stare into the looking glass back through tabletop history, you’ll spot that we once reviewed Hotshots, a firefighting themed cooperative game from Fireside Games. Hotshots was not the first game to riff on the idea of firefighters…
Talisman: Legendary Tales — A game of Luck
Talisman: Legendary Tales is aimed at a new, much younger audience and even though it is faster and simpler than the original, it also manages to be way, way smarter. When you mention Talisman to a modern board gamer, you’ll likely get one…
Northgard — Probably the best RTS to hit Nintendo Switch
With the number of strategy games hitting Nintendo’s incredible Switch platform recently, you’d be forgiven for missing some of the more obscure entries into the market. Shiro Games Northgard is most certainly not to be missed however, and…
Untitled Goose Game — Honk!
You are a horrible goose in a quiet English village. Honk at the locals, steal items and cause chaos in Untitled Goose Game by House House.
Foodies — Building the best food court
When it comes to food courts, one of the best parts of being in one is the variety of food around you. In Foodies, you are looking to make your food court the most popular one around. Foodies takes a simple concept and gives you so many…
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.