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Blood Bowl 3 is quite Literally Fantasy Football
I've learned to temper my expectations when it comes to new releases with Games Workshop IPs. Having now played and reviewed multiple Warhammer titles, I often find their releases to range from slightly underwhelming to buggy and near…
Video game crossover — Which tabletop games are best for digital gamers?
We explore some of the games that have made the leap from the bits and bytes of the digital realm to the paper, wood and plastic of the dining-room table.
The best food-themed board games
Over the years we've reviewed an absolute mass of board and tabletop games, in fact, we've got over 400 tabletop reviews on the site already. What you might not know is that we've got a penchant for food-themed ones; We've actually reviewed…
Rob’s Top 5 Games of 2021
2021 has been another wild year, with the world still mostly on fire and everything being terrible. But you know what hasn’t been terrible? Some of the games I’ve managed to play during the last 12 months. Whilst I haven’t played as much in…
John’s Top 5 Games That Made Another Hellish Year More Acceptable
Does Alan Wake Remastered count? Maybe not. If it does, it's that. >So... 2021 huh. Let's leave it at that for a yearly recap. We all know it sucked. Will next year be better... I'm not willing to tempt fate. At least, as ever, media…
Aeterna Noctis — The Eternal Cycle
Aeterna Noctis sees the Queen of Light and the King of Darkness in an eternal strife for power over Aeterna.
20 non-violent multiplayer games that aren’t sports-related!
Play some games with your friends.
Best Free to Play, Browser-Based Retro Games on Piepacker
Retro games always bring a lot of nostalgia gushing back, especially if you have memories of playing them with your family and friends as a small child. With so many retro games from the past in memory, it can often be hard to find good…
Go on slightly sketchy adventures in The Big Con
It’s the 90s again, with video stores, no modern cell phones, and with massive debt sharks about to take control of your mom’s store. She's planning on sending you to bandcamp, in the hopes that you will become whatever she isn’t. Yeah, The…
Spire of Sorcery: overcomplicated, but interesting
We got our hands on Spire of Sorcery, a turned-based-strategy game in Early Access on Steam. It has a little way to go, but shows promise if you like a lot of complexity to sink your teeth into.
Urban Strife could be the best turn-based, squad-based strategy game for years
Society has broken apart into gangs and pockets of survivors. Urban Strife starts you off freshly rescued from a near-fatal crash and challenges you to save an ailing, failing community of elderly survivors from the wandering undead and the…
Mechajammer is a grungy RPG breaking new ground in the past’s future
Grungy cyberpunk, espionage and patience combine together in Mechajammer, the next title from Serpent in the Staglands developer Whalenought Studios. Mechajammer is a lot of things, and while, at its core, it's an open-world game set in the…
Starsand — Hardcore survival turns up the heat in an unforgiving environment
Take on the elements in a first-person survival game set in a brutal, alien desert.
Dream Cycle — A Dive into Magic & Dreams
In Dream Cycle, step into the shoes of Morgan, an arcane apprentice who is caught up in her uncle's schemes within the Dreamlands.
Second Opinion: Why The Forgotten City is the best game of 2021
What will you do with yourself today? This is a question asked mainly by parents when intending to load their teenage children with tasks around the house, or by a spouse who senses that their partner looks dangerously close to having a lie…
Demon Turf — Jump, Claim, Repeat
The main draw for me with Demon Turf is its obvious blend of 3D platformer with 2D visuals. Beebz is the main protagonist who set out to conquer different turf in order to become queen demon — but, there’s plenty for fans of the platforming…
Blooming Business: Casino sees you managing a cute animal casino!
What better to attract to your business establishment than cute and adorable little animals as staff? In Blooming Business: Casino, you are creating an attractive and fun casino for a bunch of animal friends, looking to spend their hard…
Sprocket — The Sandbox Tank Simulator
The popularity of MMO-wargames such as World of Tanks and War Thunder has raised interest in military history since the 2010s. Both games still enjoy substantial popularity, but their niche is still very much underserved even now. This is…
World Box is a high fantasy, chaos simulator sandbox
Want to drop nukes on elves, or level a volcano with a meteorite? World Box has you covered. Titled on Steam as a God Simulator, World Box exists in an interesting space. You can play an active role in your planet's human life, tweaking…
Balance training and spinning to bring glory to Flaustria in surreal strategy title Astronaut: The…
Lead the Flaustrian Space Race, carefully monitoring and managing your astronaut's stats, appeasing the five high priests, spinning the wheels of propaganda in your favour and all while trying to meet deadlines. Astronaut: The Best is a…