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There aren't many stealth games out there, and one reason for that is that it's incredibly hard to balance what happens when stealth goes wrong. You've got to give your enemies the same brutal power that you have over them, and you need to…

One of the most underused but effective design choices in action games (and cleverly used in puzzle games) is a transforming and evolving main character. In Munch it's core to the action-adventure experience. Imagine yourself as a blob, or…

Setting up frontier settlements is probably already hard enough as it is, but in Circle of Kerzoven you also need to factor in the fact that the weather, flora and fauna are all set on following their own patterns regardless of your plans.…

As the world's oceans rose, humanity took to hiding in three underwater cities, as a result, space is at a premium and large numbers of people are cast out to survive in the ruined world. In Swordship you're a rebel from the city…

The movies, the theatre, the cinema. There are a lot of different names for the place where we go to make films, and that's because of how far-reaching the movie movement was — through class, race and generations.  Moviehouse - The Film…

Monster Hunter World Iceborne: The Board Game takes the setting from Capcom's 2019, Monster Hunter World expansion and brings it into the board game format as a lightly-compatible, playable stand-alone package following on from…

A solid BBC staple for the last decade, the Peaky Blinders setting has now made its way to VR as Maze Theory developed Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom. Now, you might be asking, "But Dann, how does a TV adaptation of a period crime drama…

Into The Odd is a rules-light RPG brimming with myths, mystery, arcana and creeping horror. It exists at a crossroads between easily accessible starting out and spiralling potential, with a vague 'age of industry' meets 'age of exploration'…

The King and his heir are dead, so you're back in for a shot at the crown. Crown of Exile throws players into a medieval succession crisis, where noble houses race to claim the now-vacant throne. The B3 'South' Tabletop group rarely…

Let's Build a Zoo challenges you to not only build a functional, profitable zoo, but to also build a responsible one. Whether you take that challenge though is entirely up to you — and it caters to you even if you don't. How does the…