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Minecraft Builders and Biomes is one of the best video game adaptations
I’ve played a terrible video game adapted into tabletop experience before. The Super Mario Bros. The Powerup Card Game is one of the worst video game adaptations I have ever played. With that in mind and a love of Minecraft, I wanted to…
Disintegration gives you RTS and a hoverbike
Disintegration has you speeding around on a gravcycle, commanding your crew of Outlaws to victory below you.
Iconoclasts — Fight the Power
Following the well-established Metroidvania system of gated progression through tool, weapon or item acquisition, Iconoclasts presents a surprisingly complex map with a high number of secret or unattainable items early on.
Young Souls is a beat-em-up about twins with ‘tudes
Young Souls mixes punk and medieval to create a fresh, fun beat-em-up with RPG elements.
POSSESSION: a Daemonic Card Game full of demons
As a brand-new board game maker, it can be extremely difficult for your project to get the reach and excitement it deserves. It can be even more difficult to get people on board (sorry) to try a whole new type of game altogether. Luckily,…
Jam Favorites: Bitsy Jam: Rat
There are a ton of game jams happening online at any point during the year. Many of these jams follow a theme and a timeframe, giving developers the challenge of creating a game within a specific jam’s restrictions. I am able to record…
Art and Soul — Fugl
Fugl is a voxel-art game about transformation and discovery. Its use of voxels defines more than just the art of the game, but the experience as well.
Space Grunts 2 — Can’t quite lift-off
Space Grunts 2 still has the potential to be a great game, and hopefully, with more time and new development focused on expanding its already solid mechanics, it will become the game that it can be.
Take your loved one to play Museum this Valentines Day
With hundreds of beautifully illustrated cards and a thought-provoking theme, Museum is a recently fulfilled Kickstarter that focuses — as the name might suggest — on complex set collection. In Museum, two to four players operate as the…
Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is scary, fast
Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, a new FPS that pushes the Quake engine to its limits, throws hordes of enemies at you with one hand and offers you powerful weapons to slaughter them with the other — all while you run around gothic environments at a…
Keep moving Forward in Forward.
Over the last year, I have started really enjoying card-based games. Forward, a game from the 7DLR challenge feels inspired by Slay the Spire. It's an experience where you can slowly move forward, a card at a time, trying to defeat monsters…
Otto & The Ancient Worlds has moves like Mega’
Otto & The Ancient Worlds combines the moves and weapon formulas from Mega Man with the whip from Castlevania to make a unique platformer that is both fun and fresh.
Tapestry takes time and effort to unravel, but the result is worth the wait
The expectations placed on some board game designers are, simply put, too high. One designer who finds himself in the (both enviable and dubious) position of being considered among the very best of all time is Jamey Stegmaier, the…
Humanity Blazes in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II brings a bright hope for humanity.
Hot Brass — top down room clearing
Top-down shooting games were all the rage not too long back, then it seemed like that specific type of game faded away to make way for a more tactical breed. Hot Brass is a great return for that old particular brand of bloodsport. Sneaking…
Ghostrunner is a cybernetic playground
In Ghostrunner your cybernetic suit provides you with superhuman powers and lightning-fast reflexes to assist you in climbing a massive tower to take down the ruler — The Keymaster — of your dystopian city and finally find your true…
Reavers of Midgard is a heavy euro game about surprisingly generous Vikings!
Reavers of Midgard is the sequel to Champions of Midgard, a surprise hit from 2015 that is fun in its own right, but which really requires both of its add-on packs to really shine. Reavers aims to provide a heavier, more complete…
Foregone is blazingly fast and frantic
Foregone, by Big Blue Bubble, is a hand-crafted action-packed platforming game about loot and mayhem.
Wildermyth — An adventure to remember
For a studio's first outing, Worldwalker Games set themselves a rather bold task, and after my time playing I believe they achieved it.
Garden Story is a cute RPG about a little grape who could
In Garden Story, being a village guardian is a tough responsibility, but if anyone has the juice to do so it’s Concord: a fragile grape with a big heart who is determined to protect the Grove.