If the reason you play slice of life, cozy games is for the smaller moments of peace, in isolation, things like catching a villager or resident kicking back in their perfectly manicured garden, or sitting in an area that you've just…

PowerWash Simulator 2 is collaborating with Lucasfilm Games to release the Star Wars Pack, which can be played from July 16th and adds in lots of iconic locations and vehicles from the Star Wars galaxy for you to clean up. For those…

Active Matter, the intense, realistic military shooter set in a fractured multiverse, where you must fight through unstable zones, through time and space that are bending around you, has made the jump from PC to Xbox with a free demo until…

Abiotic Factor, a survival crafting game that you can play with a bunch of friends, where you need to explore through different realms and survive against strange creatures, has just announced another DLC, this time taking players to a…

Rocky Roads is the third expansion for Days of Wonder’s fantastic HEAT: Pedal to the Metal, and very much represents a kind of “more of what you like” expansion in the best possible sense. There’s no attempt to fiddle with what works well,…

The Kinfire Delve series by Incredible Dream is a set of cooperative fantasy card game that I was not expecting to get as hooked on as I have. Kinfire Delve sits comfortably with the other high energy huge sprawling fantasy epics that have…

“Not-E3” has been in full swing this week, and while many of my friends think there were 3 shows (State of Play, Summer Game Fest Live and finally the Microsoft XBOX Showcase) there have been many, many more. Thanks to the voices online…

Fresh off squeezing out the Yulan faction for Songs of Conquest, Lavapotion have just announced the release date for their run-based, roguelite spin-off, Wielders of the Essence; It'll release on November 5th. It seems like everybody and…

Finspan: Sharks and Reefs is a “no bloat”  expansion that feels pretty clear in what it wants to offer: a richer, more varied version of the base game built around a single new mechanism that integrates cleanly into everything that we…

The Sinking City 2 has been announced, releasing on August 18th of this year, with a 1-hour playable demo already out on Steam! The upcoming survival horror game is set in the roaring 20s, but swapping out jazz, martini glasses and art deco…

Extremely popular game Vampire Survivors has you taking on hundreds of monsters at once, becoming the bullet hell to your enemies in a reversal of the genre. After it's successful launch it has gone on to have several DLCs, including…

Fellow Traveller has put together a Story Rich Showcase, which primarily features a bunch of unreleased games! Along side all of these upcoming story games, there is a selection of games you can purchase now, some of which are even on sale.…

Discounty, a cosy management game where you run your own supermarket in a small town full of drama and mystery, has a free expansion called People or Profit?, which is out now on PC. This expansion adds more endings, another chapter, and…

SFB Games, the creators of Tangle Tower and Crow Country, have now confirmed the release date for The Mermaid Mask, their next entry in the long-running, point and click adventure game series Detective Noir. It'll release for PC,…

Our family has gone to a lot of the different National Trust trails, but we especially love Wimpole, which has tons of different walks throughout the year. When we heard that this was one of the National Trust sites that would have the…

Gunnar Glasses are a brand of eyewear that specialise in reducing eye-strain, and they’ve got hundreds of pairs to try - from more mundane to these Mad Moxxie branded ones — which has come about as a result of a special collaboration with…

Culdcept The First, originally released back on the Sega Saturn in 1997, has an upcoming remaster, and that remaster — from Clear River Games and City Connection — now has a demo available through Steam right now, allowing you to get…

Hachette, the creators behind Cyclades, Yogi, Middle Ages and many other board games we've reviewed over the years have announced their upcoming game Encyclopedia of Monsters. This new game is designed by Antonie Bauza, Corentin Lebrat and…

There’s a certain charm to a world run by raccoons. Nighttime heists, furtive eyes peering over stolen loot, the occasional dumpster dive. Charming, opportunistic, slightly terrifying. This might be why I consider raccoons an avatar of…

Draco Ideas, a popular publisher of board games, has released their newest conquest into the wild for funding, called Dark Kingdoms. Dark Kingdoms is set in 5th-century Britannia, and will allow up to two to four players to take control of…