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Hellbreach: Vegas – Putting everything on red
From a mechanical standpoint, this is very similar to Call of Duty Zombies. You start in a small environment with a basic weapon as monsters spawn in. Killing them completes the round and earns you money you can use to buy weapons and perks…
Terracotta Army has great ideas, but will it stand the test of time?
I am all for new ideas in board games — especially when they are designed and implemented to a high standard. In Terracotta Army, there are several good ideas including more than one that I’ve never seen before, but what I’m struggling to…
Pikmin 4: Pikmin Clover Patch Nintendo Switch Controller – 90s Vibes!
In the 90s, I use to really love collecting electronics with transparent casing. There is just something nostalgic about seeing into devices, and seeing how they work. The Pikmin 3: Pikmin Clover Patch Wireless Nintendo Switch Controller…
Pokemon Labyrinth – Slide around the map
Pokemon, being such a massive franchise, of course has a Labyrinth version. It just makes sense to have all of those little, iconic pocket monsters littered all around a map, waiting for you to scoop them up one-after-another. Pokemon…
SULFUR is a pulpy first-person dungeon crawler with roguelike sensibilities
A cartoony, dungeon-diving shooter, SULFUR is both unpredicatable and fun in equal measures.
If you turn back time several years you couldn't move for first-person, roguelike dungeon-crawlers. There were some real gems out, and by the end…
Pinball M – Tommyknockers
Brilliantly, the table comes with a campaign of sorts, setting you challenges over multiple attempts at the machine. These amount to scoring targets within time limits, or surviving a certain amount of time on a single ball, but each one is…
Hidden Cats in London has you lighting up the town
There have been a few Hidden Cat games that have made their way to Xbox lately, with the most recent being Hidden Cats in London. You see, these types of games have you looking at a screen, trying to find hidden objects in the picture. In…
Age of Comics: The Golden Years has a unique theme and a familiar feel
Of the many things I love about board games, one of the most prominent is the stories they tell that wouldn’t normally get much of the spotlight. Whilst I am no comic book history buff, I love the theme in Age of Comics: The Golden Years…
The Best 14 Dungeon Crawlers for When You Don’t Have Time for Gloomhaven
We’ve all been there — you’ve had a hard week, Friday is here and your mates are coming over for a games night. The thing is, whilst they might be expecting to spend four hours slogging through a heavy eurogame, you’re just not feeling it.…
Jaws: No Swimming, Beach Closed makes a great 2 player game
If you are a fan of the movie Jaws and simple to pick up and play board games then Jaws: No Swimming, Beach Closed might be the perfect game for you. This board game can be played with more than two players, however only one player can be…
Assetto Corsa Competizione is simply a sublime celebration of GT racing
With its sole focus on GT Series racing, Assetto Corsa Competizione reduces the scope of the original Assetto Corsa, but delivers the kind of focus that hardcore racing fans will love, assuming that they have the skills to match their…
The Invincible centres on out of this world storytelling
The Invincible challenges you to rethink human dominion. It's a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world. Developed by Starward Industries, it challenges you to explore a barren planet and face unforeseen threats.
The Invincible…
Break The Loop hurtles heroes through time into a cartoon, run-based roguelike
Gather your adventurers and blast through time to save humanity against a deadly, abyssal monster and its minions in Break The Loop.
Break The Loop places you at the wheel of a motley crew of heroes that have been sucked through time to…
Age of Wonders: Planetfall (the card game) crashes down with a bang
When I reviewed Age of Wonders: Planetfall back in 2019, I never imagined that almost five years later, I’d be reviewing a card game about it. Even more bizarrely, when I received said card game, I never expected it to be as good as it has…
Gift Guide: Must have tools for new TTRPG players
There's no better time than right now to get into the TTRPG hobby, be that through the increasingly popular D&D 5e, or any of the thousands of other RPGs out there. That said there are a few things that you'll likely need to get started…
Sankoré: The Pride of Mansa Musa proves that higher education takes time
Sankoré: The Pride of Mansa Musa is going to be called a lot of things in this review… It’s clever, it’s beautiful and it’s fast-paced once you teach it, but it’s also daunting and opaque to truly understand, and I’m already predicting that…
Forest Grove – In grove danger
The setup is at least interesting, with you playing an unnamed investigator entering a digital recreation of the family home. An AI has analysed the house itself and recreated what it’s discovered for you to go in and explore without…
Rising Lords’ medieval strategy is fun and beautiful, but mechanically…
As regular readers will know, I’m always the first to put my hand up to review strategy games that make their way onto my console. The latest of these is Rising Lords — a game that feels every bit as though it is still only halfway through…
The Sims 4 Goth Galore Kits brings out your inner goth
The Sims 4 community is really dedicated to the content that is being created for the game, especially as The Sims 4 is now a free game, with tons of different add-ons that you can purchase to change your experience. Recently, the community…
Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcome! will occupy every bit of your free time…
The last time we experienced a World War II-themed cooperative game, it was Philip duBarry’s superb Black Orchestra: Second Edition. I couldn’t get enough of Black Orchestra at the time, and when I read about Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall…