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Darkest Dungeon 2 – Misty Mountain
Combat works in the same way as it did before, with your four heroes taking on up to four enemies. Position in your party matters, as certain attacks can only be used if you are on the front line, whilst others require a character to be in…
Warhammer 40,000 Battlesector – Orks
Whilst there are a few other units for you to choose from here, I feel that there are a few really missed opportunities. I certainly wouldn’t expect every model from the tabletop to be included, but the lack of Squighog Boyz feels like a…
Sandwich Masters: Bread Roles brings characters into the game
Previously, we took a look at Sandwich Masters — a card game where you make sandwiches and try to fulfill orders. Recently, I sat down with the expansion Sandwich Masters: Bread Roles which introduces characters into the game, as well as a…
B3’s Father’s Day Gift Guide for Gamers, 2023 Edition
Updated June 5th, 2023 - Father's Day is just around the corner in the United Kingdom, which means that you might be wondering what the best gift to get your dad is. When it comes to finding gifts for dads, it's often a bit of a challenge,…
Sudocats – We missed you hissed Sudocats
In Sudocats, the numbers are replaced with cute cartoon cats, with you needing to do the same as regular sudoku, but with different pictures. There’s an option to change the pictures into numbers if you want, but I feel that kind of defeats…
Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist is a delight that improves on the first in every way
After Passpartout reached the top, there was only one place for him to go. Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist is an equally lovely, approachable and fun experience, but this time you exist in a more open, freeform world stacked with…
Railway Islands – On track
The concept here is simple enough. Your train will emerge from the red tunnel, and your job is to create a path for it to reach the blue tunnel whilst going to each train station along the route. The level is made up of hexes, some of which…
Spelunky 2 – familiar depths to plunder, for those who know the way…
There’s an old Erasmus saying that I sometimes like to refer to when I feel that I might be among a group of people who are all about as helpless as each other: “in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king!” I am reminded of this…
Mr Sun’s Hatbox is Tactical Espionage Action at its quirkiest and best
There aren't many stealth games out there, and one reason for that is that it's incredibly hard to balance what happens when stealth goes wrong. You've got to give your enemies the same brutal power that you have over them, and you need to…
Munch is an evolutionary adventure of careful dodges and decisions
One of the most underused but effective design choices in action games (and cleverly used in puzzle games) is a transforming and evolving main character. In Munch it's core to the action-adventure experience. Imagine yourself as a blob, or…
Ash of Gods: The Way – This is The Way
When you’re not having conversations and making choices, you’re taking part in battles. The gameplay itself is predominantly a card based game. Your deck of twenty cards contains ten units and ten support cards. You play units to the…
Remedium: Sentinels – Zombie survivors
The gameplay is pretty much what you’d expect from the genre. Monsters rush at you whilst your character automatically fires their weapons at the nearest enemy. You just need to focus on movement to get a better position and avoid damage.…
Hostile Hoarders: First Edition feels like it just needs more
When it comes to card-based games where you go head to head against the rest of your group, you need a well balanced group of people. All of your friends need to be equally against each other, without targeting specific people at the start.…
Circle of Kerzoven is a city builder about balancing ecology and economy
Setting up frontier settlements is probably already hard enough as it is, but in Circle of Kerzoven you also need to factor in the fact that the weather, flora and fauna are all set on following their own patterns regardless of your plans.…
Swordship is a death-dodging dance of risk and reward
As the world's oceans rose, humanity took to hiding in three underwater cities, as a result, space is at a premium and large numbers of people are cast out to survive in the ruined world. In Swordship you're a rebel from the city…
Shadows of Doubt turns you into a voxel Holmes
Walk down procedural streets, explore a facist-noir world and hunt down serial killers in the Shadows of Doubt. Rain beating down on cold city streets, Alfred Olofsson walks through Little Taipei, with a bigger magnum in their stomach than…
The Library of Babel – Lost in translation
You’ll spend a lot of time jumping and grabbing ledges though, and most of the time this works well enough. Far too often though, Ludovik simply won’t grab a ledge, or jumps straight up instead of onto a box, or occasionally doesn’t jump at…
Mia and the Dragon Princess – Trash or treasure?
The act of actually playing through Mia and the Dragon Princess can feel a bit odd though. The pacing and tone are often bizarrely off-kilter from one moment to the next. MI5 agent Bennie can be making classically British quips only to be…
Dr. Fetus’ Mean Meat Machine is the match-3 game you didn’t see coming
I feel like I played Super Meat Boy a lifetime ago as a completely different person. I remember the rage platformer well: I hated it. So when I saw Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine — a game that takes place in sort of the same world, I was…
Nacon Pro Compact Colorlight is a stunning controller
Previously, Nacon has released two different Pro Compact controllers — one in a camo skin and another that's more generic. We were impressed with both of these controllers, as they were a great value for the price, but the Nacon Pro Compact…