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An old school 3D Platformer adventure, told by an old guy chatting to his kid. How delightfully meta!

Crimson Company is a small box card game that centres around wagering cash and recruiting troops in order to secure control of two out of three central castles. The version you see in these pictures is the Deluxe Edition which features…

It all starts when a falling cat doesn't land on their feet. There are not many people out there who would have wanted Fluffy dead, but it's up to Inspector Waffles to figure out who is responsible for the murder. Inspector Waffles is a…

Dawn of Man is an ambitious and relatively serious simulation about the earliest stages of the development of humankind that is an unusual fit for consoles. Despite its muddy colours and slow gameplay, however, there’s an addictiveness to…

Following the death of her grandfather, Crowns and Pawns' Milda is expected to embrace her newly discovered family secret and embark on a dangerous quest to uncover the story of 'the king who was never crowned'. There are dozens of types of…

The hand painted auto runner which isn't quite a masterwork.

The New Year may be a blurry memory, and Halloween is just a vague shadow in the distant future, but that doesn’t stop the spookiness from flowing and a good ghost story from being told. Although far from spine chilling, this cutesy, spooky…

One of my favourite games on show last year at Pax, Operation Armstrong is an amazing asymmetric stealth/haxor game where one person in a VR headset is an elite secret agent sneaking through a robot infested moon base to complete your…

When it comes to a choice between a salad or a pile of fries I know exactly what I am going to order. In Fry Thief, a two player game, one of you has made the silly choice of purchasing a salad but now wants to steal some fries from the…

Whilst I don’t play tons of party games, I tend to favour those which rank as at least “mid-tier” in terms of the complexity. I’d much rather invest a bit more time and effort into a crunchier game, and I suppose in general that’s why I…

The Crimson Diamond is an EGA text parser adventure game where you play as a trainee geologist turn detective called Nancy Maple.  Nancy Maple is simply sent up north to a ghost town called Crimson in Ontario. There has been a massive…

Have you ever clonked your partner in the head with a spanner which you were also using to propel yourself? No? Well firstly, your weekends sound very boring and two, now you can! In Heavenly Bodies you and a friend are old school…

Exploring a beautiful environment with your flaming sword in hand, Kogarashi, a student project made by a team while they attended DigiPen Institute of Technology, Bilbao, has you fighting your way through frozen enemies. Kogarashi is a…

Shovel Knight: King of Cards tells the story of King Knight and his quest to win a tournament against three other kings in order to be the greatest king of them all.

Shovel Knight: Showdown is a fighting game featuring over sixteen characters from the series in an all-out brawl.

Mad Games Tycoon is like Game Dev Story but for grown-ups, so how well will it live up to the more immediate demands of a targeted console audience?  Personally, I love an economic management simulator, and to be honest, the more depth the…

Slamwich is an intense version of slam/snap, where everything looks like not so tasty sandwiches.  The game itself is pretty simple, you divide out the Slamwich deck between all players. Without looking at their card, each player puts down…

Once upon a time a designer called Martin Wallace decided that every game should be card driven, and once he had made war games, area control games and deception games thus, he rested. After pondering for a while, he thought “miniatures…

Sometimes it seems that games of a similar theme come in runs. I assume this is because of a particular theme across popular culture, but I’ve never been able to put my finger on it. One theme that we’ve seen a lot of in board gaming…

I love the look of claymation, so when I saw Clodhoppers at GAMAYO, it peaked my interest. Upon further inspection, I found that the game has you play as a variety of hillbillies who are all fighting each other in various multiplayer…