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Faraway, designed by Johannes Goupy and Corentin Lebrat and published by Catch Up Games, is a small-box tableau builder that punches well above its weight. Supplied to us by Hachette UK, Faraway is a small box game that offers a clever…

Macabre is a four player “extraction horror” that pits you and your friends against a creature that learns as you play. The main idea is to go into the environment,complete a main task (and optionally a few others) and get out with all of…

Jump Space pits you and your crew against high stakes missions as you venture deeper and deeper into the depths of a massive galaxy. It lets you customise your ship with all manner of upgrades as you fight off the robots that have taken…

Jackbox Party Pack 11 has all new games in a variety of different forms which are fantastic to play with your friends. With ten party packs under their belt, for a total of thirty products on Steam, it was just a matter of times before they…

If you played the likes of Warcraft or Command & Conquer back in the day, you’ll feel immediately at home. The controls are exactly what you’ll remember, from contextual right clicking to numbered control groups, everything feels like…

Ratatan is a rhythm roguelike that has you build a small army of cute musical creatures that react to your lead in a musical adventure to take down hordes of enemies, room by room, on the journey to find their goddess.  You can either take…

Action, Rhythm and Arcade Racing: Music Drive has it all. Arcade racers are almost a thing of the past nowadays, left behind as we continue in our mission for more realistic simulators. Forza, Gran Turismo and the Formula 1 games are among…

There and Back Again, designed by Reiner Knizia and published by Office Dog, is a charming and refreshingly straightforward roll-and-write adventure that invites players to journey through Middle-earth one quest at a time. With eight unique…

There’s a quiet confidence about Earthborne Rangers — an inherent sense that it has a lot to say, but it’s not shouting about it. Designed by Andrew Fischer, Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt, Andrew Navaro and both Adam and Brady Sadler, and…

The Best Life Adventure Games is a book recently released by Jupiter Hadley, featuring her outlook on just under fifty of some of the best slice of life and life adventure games. If you have a game where you can step into another reality…

When adventuring out in the wastes of Fallout there’s one faction who you can depend on to guard and horde technology and that’s the Brotherhood of Steel. Who better, then, to watch your technology than this Nuka-Cola Branded T-51 Power…

The concept of Whirly Derby is pretty simple. You each have a set of marbles of a single colour, you select a number of marbles to enter into a race and put them into a provided cardboard cup, then roll them into the circular tray. The…

Take a small plot of land and create a stunning pocket of nature in Grow Wild, a wholesome nature game about habitats and ecosystems. It's been a while since I've played a game about managing a small plot of land that quite conveys the…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a visually and mechanically striking reinterpretation of the TMNT formula. Rather than the arcade brawler that we’ve become used to, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is much…

Playing as the founder of the titular Shuten Order, disaster strikes from the moment the game opens. You’ve been murdered, seemingly by one of the five leaders of the different ministries of your order. Lucky for you, you’ve been revived by…

As much a satire about house prices, economic boom and bust and even the world's most famous capitalist board game, Magnate seeks to build up and then destroy all you know about city-building. Designed by James Naylor and published by…

Ready or Not on Xbox Series X feels like a deliberate throwback to a more considered era of tactical gameplay. It tasks you to slow down, think, and act with precision — and while it doesn’t always hit the mark, it’s certainly aiming at a…

Back to the Dawn is a game that sneaks up on you. At first glance, it looks like one of a thousand pixel art throwbacks — the kind of game you might expect to find buried in a Steam sale bundle. The longer I played it, though, the more I…

Car designs are fabulous, and the tracks feel like bonkers cityscapes in a technology-gone-mad future and I really like how the art style comes together as something really fitting for the type of game the devs are going for. 

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