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Souldiers is a fantasy RPG tribute to metroidvanias, stuffed with modern ideas
Plenty of games threaten you with death, but few make walking into the light your first action. Souldiers does, and you'd best become familiar with death quick, because it's a key part of its learning curve. I've been slashing and dashing…
The Best FMV Games
The likes of Phantasmagoria, The 11th Hour, and Night Trap weren’t really all that great, and were more of an experiment now that developers had all this capacity on new-fangled CD-ROMs. So they’d fill them up with video and build a game…
Game Dev Diaries: Entry 2 — Make it, break it, test it, break it again.
Game Dev Diaries is a series of articles and videos that follows a cohort of young game design students as they embark on their final projects. With interviews, insights, and interesting viewpoints, these articles aim to showcase these…
Game Dev Diaries: Entry 1 — So, what you making?
Game Dev Diaries is a series of articles and videos that follows a cohort of young game design students as they embark on their final projects. With interviews, insights, and interesting viewpoints, these articles aim to showcase these…
10 Of The Best Games From The Bundle For Ukraine
Due to the ongoing political situation happening in Ukraine right now, a bunch of game developers publishes and indies have come together to create an amazing bundle of wonderful games. The proceeds from the bundle go on to the…
The Best Turn-Based RPGs for Nintendo Switch of 2021
This guest article, on the Best Turn-Based RPGs for Nintendo Switch, was submitted by Marcello Cacace of Turn Based Lovers. Turn-based games have been a staple of Nintendo consoles since the beginning. Fire Emblem got its start on the NES…
Submerged: Hidden Depths — What Lays Beyond?
Uppercut Games’ standalone sequel to Submerged — Submerged: Hidden Depths tells the story of the protagonist Miku alongside her younger brother, now a teenager in this third-person "relaxploration" game.
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.