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You manage an entire team of workers who head down into an ever more expansive mineshaft to gather resources that you’ll use to upgrade your mine platform. Once you’ve gained enough, your platform will take your team deeper to gather ever…

Playing The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship feels like much more than just a game — it’s the retelling of an epic story. Frodo is one step from despair, the Nazgûl are circling, and you’re desperately trying to recruit Rohirrim…

One thing that kids games do a lot better than most games aimed at adults is convincingly take over the table and, in the case of playing them out at gaming cafes or events, draw in a crowd. Stomp the Plank is an incredibly easy to…

That's right, it's another hidden object cat game. This time Hidden Cat Outlaws takes us to the wild, wild west — think Sheriff offices, carts dotted around, lots of sand.  As with most hidden-animal games, there's a lot of familiar…

To say that Broken Arrow has been long awaited would be an understatement. For around six years fans have longed to get their teeth into its highly detailed, modern combat RTS, and I think the wait has definitely paid off, with this, the…

In what is probably my favourite inclusion in Nightmare Frontier, each party member has their own fear which will manifest in the battles you take them into. This means you can tailor your run to face the enemies you want to fight and have…

The Lambada is a Brazilian dance where people bend their knees and make lots of small steps. Lambada is not about the dance, it's instead about matching colours, getting rid of all of your cards and avoiding forbidden colours. Bright…

Fish Fight is a team-based competitive physical game where two teams (of at least two people) compete to complete their trophy belts in up to nine challenges per game. These challenges? A number of hilarious tasks of skill, perseverance and…

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has just had a brand new face let loose on its dismal, lawless world and who better to bring that law back into the light than the Emperor’s lawbringers: The Adeptus Arbites.  Arbites, for those unfamiliar, are…

Like any good long-read, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition reveals its rich characters, detailed plot and expansive narrative over a protracted period of time. It doesn’t chase trends or try to reinvent the wheel — instead, it…

Late Pledges for Era of Tribes are still open for a few more days here. If you’ve ever wanted to guide a civilization from its tribal roots to a sprawling empire, Era of Tribes might just be the game you’ve been waiting for. Designed by…

If you looked at my recent coverage and asked me if I only play hidden object cat games, I would tell you that the reason I'm covering so many is because they're the main thing that Robin and I play together on slow mornings! Meow Moments:…

When I first opened up Parks (Second Edition), the first thing that struck me — as with the original — was the incredible presentation and build quality. This is still a small box with a beautiful cover, but once you lift the lid, Parks…

Horrified is back in its fifth iteration, this time taking on the long-running and increasing relevant TTRPG progenitor with Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons. Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons is arguably one of — if not the — best…

Obviously though, this is the internet, so things go wrong for Cam quite quickly when he comes across a chat partner who manages to hack his smart home and traps him in a deadly online game.

From farming to fishing, idle desktop games have been making a massive comeback over the last year, and Idle Waters is the next one that you should definitely pick up. Every so often a game comes along and does something so clever that you…

Storm in a Teacup’s Steel Seed is a game that wears its ambition like a battle suit — sleek, stylish, and just a little bit intimidating. Set in a post-cataclysmic world where machines have inherited the Earth, this stealth-action adventure…

Story-based adventure games have always been something that interests me. While I usually prefer to play more high octane shooters and others, there is always something very comforting about playing a game intended to be taken at a walking…

There’s no denying that Empyreal makes a strong first impression. From the moment you step into its fractured, floating world, it’s clear that this is a game with vision. The skybound setting — all shimmering islands, ancient ruins, and…

Rise & Fall, the latest design from Christophe Boelinger and published by Ludically, opens with the players building the board piece by piece — an act of divine collaboration that feels more like sculpting a landscape than setting up a…