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Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance is hard. Really hard. Even on the easiest setting, which is recommended when you start up, you’ll lose a lot of missions and a lot of troops in the early going. I’m not ashamed to say that I restarted some…
You Gotta Be Kitten Me – Guessing Card Game
Cats and dogs are such a popular, well-loved pet that having a board game full of cute cats and dogs, does feel like it would fit in well with most homes. You Gotta Be Kitten Me is a card game where you must guess how many accessories or…
Bounties of Babylon – Man-of-war or total bore?
Turns are split into tile placement and movement stages. Tiles include a path as well as a colour. The path shows you where a ship can go, and must match up to another path, meaning you can’t have a path ram into land. The colour dictates…
The Muddles is a quick-play, family-friendly set-collecting card game
Pog, Jellycow and Wee might sound like characters from a children's TV show, but they're actually fusion animals from The Muddles, an easy to pick-up and play game of set making and card capturing. Big Potato Games have done it again,…
Mullet Mad Jack – Dream stream
Blisteringly fast-paced and deliriously good fun, Mullet Mad Jack takes a gorgeous 90s anime aesthetic and creates a rocket-propelled FPS game that doesn’t stop being entertaining after the credits roll.
Zet Zillions is a cross-cosmos deck builder with great deck-building systems
There's not much that you need to know about Zet Zillions' backstory beyond the fact that you are the freshly awakened commander of a ship-planet and you've got to find humanity's new home. This isn't Battlestar Galactica though, this is…
Thunder Road: Vendetta is nostalgic fun, but don’t expect anything too cerebral
As a child, I never played the original Thunder Road, but thanks to the iconic, Mad Max inspired box art, I was always curious about it. Now, thanks to Restoration Games, a modernised version of the Jim Keifer/Milton Bradley classic is…
Bioframe Outpost combines study, experimentation and exploration into a fantastic 2D-metroidvania
Seven years on from when we saw it last, Starlit Colony is now Bioframe Outpost. It's the same compelling game, with slightly different skin in a very different time for the industry. Back when we first played Bioframe Outpost in 2017, we…
Planted – Making your Greenhouse Beautiful
Playing board games with a plant theme, especially ones with absolutely beautiful art, is always a highlight. Planted is one such game; where you are looking to create a little greenhouse of plants, all that have been cared for. This is a…
POOLS – Dip a toe
It was rare that I’d find myself going in circles in POOLS, and when I did it was really only in a small area that I could quickly progress from. Even so, I constantly felt like I didn’t know where I was going, and would find an exit by…
Trash – Morph Your Character
Although the idea of Trash may not be something you find appealing, Trash, the game, is about being in a world full of garbage and using different morphs on your character to overcome obstacles around you. This game is procedurally…
Fossilfuel 2 – Jurassic lark
It’s like watching a B-movie in that you know it won’t be perfect, but you’ll probably have a great time whilst you’re experiencing it. Fossilfuel 2 has its tongue so firmly pressed into its cheek that it’s popping out the side of its face.
NeverRift is a spatially aware TCG with its own kind of magic
NeverRift is a Kickstarter that will launch on 28th May and offers the excitement of a collectible TCG alongside a number of unique gameplay elements that should enable it to feel as though it occupies a unique space in the market. We’ve…
Pinball M – System Shock DLC
This single table on offer for around a fiver depending on your region takes everything that’s so solid in the free table and gives it that cyberpunk horror spin. You’ll be launching your ball into cybernetically altered mutants, flipping…
Sushi Go!: Spin Some for Dim Sum is simple, tactile fun
Here at BigBossBattle, we’re big fans of sushi-themed games, and we’ve already reviewed Sushi Go!: Spin Some for Dim Sum’s older sibling, Sushi Roll, as well as several other titles like Maki Staki and even Sushi Bar. Lots of sushi games…
Power Sink – Underwater Puzzles
Go into the depths of the ocean, find various power orbs and connect them onto dodgy, old buildings to ensure that the colony has power. In Power Sink, that’s your job. As a little creature, you need to jump and sink your way through a…
Classified: France ’44 disrupts German plans in the run up to D-Day
Having been interested in video games for more than thirty years, I’ve noticed that interest in WWII seems to come and go in phases. With several AAA games that deal with the war against Hitler’s Germany already on the horizon, it’s great…
Project Downfall – First-person hotline
The cartoon aesthetic belies how many severed heads, devastated bodies, and crushed bones you’ll leave in your wake. Linking this back to Hotline Miami once again, each chapter is split up into very short stages in which you need to kill…
Power Hungry Pets is a Single-Card Hand Shakedown
The Exploding Kittens team are back, this time with Power Hungry Pets a pet-based twist on modern-classic Love Letter. If you've not played 2012 release Love Letter then you're missing out. It's a quick to learn, quick to play game about…
South Pole Bebop’s turn-structure makes its PVP duels sing
At the bizarre intersection of very specific Jazz subgenres and tight-tactical gameplay comes South Pole Bebop, where penguins, seals and puffins face off against each other and zombies! I've got to be perfectly honest, there's a lot to…