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We’ve all been there — you’ve had a hard week, Friday is here and your mates are coming over for a games night. The thing is, whilst they might be expecting to spend four hours slogging through a heavy eurogame, you’re just not feeling it.…

If you are a fan of the movie Jaws and simple to pick up and play board games then Jaws: No Swimming, Beach Closed might be the perfect game for you. This board game can be played with more than two players, however only one player can be…

With its sole focus on GT Series racing, Assetto Corsa Competizione reduces the scope of the original Assetto Corsa, but delivers the kind of focus that hardcore racing fans will love, assuming that they have the skills to match their…

The Invincible challenges you to rethink human dominion. It's a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world. Developed by Starward Industries, it challenges you to explore a barren planet and face unforeseen threats. The Invincible is…

Gather your adventurers and blast through time to save humanity against a deadly, abyssal monster and its minions in Break The Loop. Break The Loop places you at the wheel of a motley crew of heroes that have been sucked through time to…

When I reviewed Age of Wonders: Planetfall back in 2019, I never imagined that almost five years later, I’d be reviewing a card game about it. Even more bizarrely, when I received said card game, I never expected it to be as good as it has…

There's no better time than right now to get into the TTRPG hobby, be that through the increasingly popular D&D 5e, or any of the thousands of other RPGs out there. That said there are a few things that you'll likely need to get started…

Sankoré: The Pride of Mansa Musa is going to be called a lot of things in this review… It’s clever, it’s beautiful and it’s fast-paced once you teach it, but it’s also daunting and opaque to truly understand, and I’m already predicting that…

The setup is at least interesting, with you playing an unnamed investigator entering a digital recreation of the family home. An AI has analysed the house itself and recreated what it’s discovered for you to go in and explore without…

As regular readers will know, I’m always the first to put my hand up to review strategy games that make their way onto my console. The latest of these is Rising Lords — a game that feels every bit as though it is still only halfway through…

The Sims 4 community is really dedicated to the content that is being created for the game, especially as The Sims 4 is now a free game, with tons of different add-ons that you can purchase to change your experience. Recently, the community…

The last time we experienced a World War II-themed cooperative game, it was Philip duBarry’s superb Black Orchestra: Second Edition. I couldn’t get enough of Black Orchestra at the time, and when I read about Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall…

When it comes to decorating your gaming space, there was a time when those massive, hexagon lights seemed to be the only thing people wanted. They felt a little bland, however, for gamer caves or people who wanted more than a soft glow of…

Reflex-based tabletop games and kids are a combo that often seems like it's only a few moments from disaster. Karate Cats and Kung Fu Dogs takes the classic snap formula and adds a few simple modifiers and a fun, animal theme. When it comes…

In Estate Agent Simulator, you unsurprisingly play as an estate agent, however — as per recent simulator games — there’s a lot that you can do outside of the core game loop including some RPG mechanics and, bizarrely, crypto trading. Estate…

You play as Jim Baylor, a former police officer who was set up by a corrupt force and sent to prison. Upon your release, you find that the city’s crime has escalated considerably, and you join a friend’s private security company intending…

Technology races ahead, authoritarianism is at a concerning high and activists are being suppressed. Solace State is a narrative adventure game that puts you right in the thick of a political hotpoint. It's easy to look at Solace State's…

In World Wonders from Zé Mendes and Arcane Wonders, players will plan out and construct an ancient city, adding production, food and luxury goods to their output and building monuments to demonstrate their wealth. With more than twenty…

Regardless, here you will find a horror game a year for the past decade, along with the occasional honourable mention. You’ll find fewer major releases here, as I’m much keener to shine my torch on something you may have missed, forgotten,…

A set-building game with a woollen twist, Sheep Dip is a short and simple game for 3-6 players. I was actually very pleasantly surprised by Sheep Dip, which is pitched as an approachable family card game but actually features a couple of…