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Explore and populate the surface of Mars with experiments and projects in Terraformers a single-player, combat-free strategy take on space-colonisation. We've been to Mars in games more than a few times over the years, it has an incredible…

Bluffing has always been a cornerstone of traditional card games, with games like Go Fish, Bluff and S**thead (or your local variant thereof) all being popular classics the world over. But sometimes, a game like Sheriff of Nottingham comes…

The sheer amount of fascinating shapes and colours that will appear ahead of you during your journey is amazing. Over the course of your three-or-so hours with the game, you’ll visit underwater worlds, lands in the sky, and a black hole in…

In medieval-set real-time strategy Diplomacy is Not an Option, the peasants are revolting and unfortunately for you, you're the target of their discontent. Sliding into the 'base-building meets tower defence' space repopularised by They are…

When I think of iconic modern board games, Blood Rage occupies the top spot in terms of the genre that is affectionately known as “Ameritrash". This area control game from legendary designer Eric M. Lang and big-budget publisher CMON is…

I have spent hundreds of hours in Stardew Valley the video game. I spent so much time cultivating my land, fishing, mining, befriending everyone, and otherwise ensuring my farm is perfect. So when I heard there was going to be Stardew…

More than a few games have tried to gamify spelling and typing over the years, but most of them, like Typing of the Dead or Scribblenauts, have it more as an input mechanic than the actual core of the game. Grammarian LTD has you take on…

The police will try to smash you off the road, making your life more difficult whilst other road users will undo your good work by turning the road grey again. In a neat twist though, if you drive near them, they’ll become colourful too,…

If you’ve read my recent review of Ankh: Gods of Egypt, then you’ll know how big a fan I am of Eric Lang’s epic “Mythic” trilogy. Ankh is a fantastic game in its most basic form, but as with most games launched via Kickstarter, there are…

I don't know about you, but when I first heard about Tentacular, a game where you're a giant betentacled beast, I knew that I had to play it. VR seems to be a perfect for anything with even a slight chaos factor — we play games to do things…

Open-world crafting and survival games can be daunting at the best of times, but when you take the standard approach to resource collection, base building, survival and ultimately combat and then put it in space; you have an entirely more…

Let's talk about Mechajammer again, specifically let's talk about it now that it's had its big v1.1 Refracted update.

If you’re reading this review, then I’d be willing to bet a lot of money — maybe even a crisp fiver — that you’ve heard of Ticket to Ride. Even if you’re here because you're curious about whether you should take the step of purchasing it as…

I'm not sure where to even begin with Aztech Forgotten Gods, so let's start at the beginning. Almost two years ago Lienzo studio teased an announcement for an alternate reality future of Mesoamérica people. Personally, the project having…

The JBL Quantum 610 is more than adequate enough for the discerning gamer with a simple setup, massive battery life, hours of comfort and most importantly punchy, clear audio.

Mörk Borg, which translates from Dark Castle in Swedish, is a dark fantasy, incredibly metal, Tabletop RPG. The rulebook itself is an artistic masterpiece, with everything down to the font and backgrounds taken into consideration on a…

Plenty of games threaten you with death, but few make walking into the light your first action. Souldiers does, and you'd best become familiar with death quick, because it's a key part of its learning curve. I've been slashing and dashing…

The likes of Phantasmagoria, The 11th Hour, and Night Trap weren’t really all that great, and were more of an experiment now that developers had all this capacity on new-fangled CD-ROMs. So they’d fill them up with video and build a game…

Beat Arena grants you the opportunity of playing in a VR rock band with classic tracks from Konami titles and the Bemani games.

How do you define a happy city? Is it the number of shops and banks a city has? Is it the public spaces; the parks and libraries? Or is it access to work via industrial and commercial districts? In Happy City, you’ll balance these decisions…