All posts by Matthew Smail

Near and Far is a storytelling and victory point collection game with a lighthearted but extremely strong adventuring theme running throughout.

An adventure game set in the halcyon yesterdays as built by the faltered minds of distant tomorrows.

Review | Last Day of June (PS4) - A widow's journey through their, and their neighbour's, loss in an effort to change the past for the better.

Eora needs a hero, and the gods have chosen an unexpected one in an unusual stranger who has become stuck in the Dyrwood.

In Eric Lang's critically acclaimed Blood Rage, players take control of rival Viking clans during the time of Ragnarok - aka, The End of the World. All Vikings dream of a glorious death and a place at Odin's table in the halls of Valhalla, and the clans of Blood Rage are no exception.

Dead of Winter from Plaid Hat Games, Dead of Winter has players controlling survivors in a colony after the civilised world has fallen in zombie apocalypse.

With its beautiful, fantasy interpretation of Southern Europe during The Renaissance, Masquerada: Songs and Shadows offers a modern, yet completely linear take on the classic isometric RPG.

... and now you realise your purpose here - to build the finest series of structures that Yamatai has ever seen and in turn, win Queen Himiko's favour.

Nail biting platforming, banging chiptunes, and a journey through the belly of a beast.

We rip and tear our way through the amazingly high quality (and astonishingly similar to the 2016 video game release) Doom board game.

Dice Forge, from Régis Bonnessée, is a revolutionary title where each player rebuilds their pair of dice as you play through the game.

"It's a bold, beautiful, innovative, annoyingly likeable hipster who not just sports an excellent beard, but can also shoot, skin and cook a Grizzly Bear"

Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detectives The Thames Murders is great fun in person, but how does it hold up remotely?

Claim the city blocks with shops, and now public services, in Quadropolis.

Build a criminal empire in perfectly balanced 30-minute chunks.

Ship-shape for a party

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but what happens when a game fails to live up to the standard of the game it hopes to emulate?

MP the Gathering.

"With this brutal and stylish follow up to PS4 launch exclusive Resogun, Housemarque may have achieved the impossible. "

Skulk the shadows, liberating the gold of the wealthy.