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Hello hello. Blimey, 2020 has been about as far from a barrel of monkeys as it could be — I'm positively thrilled to put this calendar to bed and hopefully, with it, all of the junk that's been snowballing over the last five years. Anyway,…

Shift between four heroes in a tough showdown against a mind-controlling final boss in Awry. The four legendary heroes have made their way through the almost endless dungeon and are finally facing the creature behind all the recent…

With some of the political farce of the previous decade still very fresh in their minds, there are probably more than a fair few people tired of hearing the word Democracy being flung around. Democracy 4, and its predecessors, are a…

Runner Duck's Space Crew shares more than a few similarities to its predecessor Bomber Crew, but the (hyper)jump to a space setting does wonders for their refined systems. Sci-fi set Space Crew and WWII-straddling Bomber Crew have a lot in…

The Indie RPG genre is booming. More and more developers are seeking to rekindle the games of their youth and either replicate or build-upon the experiences that they had in their own early years. Video games and how we talk about them is…

There's chaos in the shadows of 2032 Singapore, but in order to get to the bottom of the conspiracy behind it, Chinatown Detective Agency's owner Amira Darma will have to travel the world. Perhaps the most interesting thing about General…

Sometimes when a trilogy wraps up there's a feeling of wanting left afterwards. However, unlike in fiction, history tends to wrap up at the highest point of escalation; Wars rarely end with a whisper. Order of Battle's Red Storm expansion…

Ultimately, everything which is created must be destroyed, but the stories of each cycle can only persist if you can lead successive generations of Pupils As Far As The Eye in this clever strategy game. I was first drawn to As Far As The…

Seven years on from the release of Rogue Legacy it has a sequel. As Rogue Legacy 2 launches into Early Access it's time to find out if the developers can strike gold twice within a genre that they helped define. I've been thinking about…

Paradox Interactive's long-awaited, medieval grand-strategy sequel is upon us. With Crusader Kings III the developer's face a challenge; how do they successfully build on a game which ran for 8 years and featured over a dozen expansion…