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Imperiums: Greek Wars is much grander than other 4x titles
Imperiums: Greek Wars is an engaging 4X, grand strategy monster. With seemingly endless decisions, your 'perfect plan' can abruptly change.
Pink River — infinite river rafting survival
If you have a few hours to spare you'll have fun with the time you spend with Pink River. The music and gameplay flow into each other as you work your way down the river trying to stay afloat.
Keys and Kingdoms — Role-Playing the Piano
Keys and Kingdoms is a musical role-playing game that not only teaches you the fundamentals of proper finger placement and play-by-ear training but puts a bit of magic into the process.
Join the revolution in the action-packed pages of Liberated!
Fight, use stealth and solve puzzles in the struggle between masked freedom fighters and an oppressive surveillance regime as you flip through the politically-charged pages of Liberated - a game taking place inside a Noir comic book!
Carrion is a short, visceral metroidvania that turns the tables
Over the course of about six hours, Carrion will desensitize you to all normal human emotions and actions. This is a game that makes it so easy to slip into the squelching tentacles of its otherworldly protagonist that when you put the…
The Last Campfire — Fleeting embers
The Last Campfire is a game about rescuing lost souls on their pilgrimage, finding your own purpose and finding your way home.
Cardaclysm — card-based deck building fun
Cardaclysm starts when the local Sorcerer meddles with a summoning book and tries to enslave four magical beings to his will, he underestimates their power and releases them onto an unsuspecting world
Best Friend Forever takes you into a world of dogs
Best Friend Forever by Starcolt is a visual novel that combines a dating simulator with a dog owner simulator.
She Sees Red — Better dead than red
As the story goes on, you’ll find that your choices make both small and large differences to the subsequent scene. Whilst you’ll still reach the finale regardless of your decisions, there are four different endings. You’re encouraged from…
Hellpoint — Imitation Game
There’s enough differentiation in the formula to keep genre fans occupied but quality issues may put players off repeat playthroughs despite the customisation options available to them
Rogue Legacy 2 — The Prodigal Child returns again and again
Seven years on from the release of Rogue Legacy it has a sequel. As Rogue Legacy 2 launches into Early Access it's time to find out if the developers can strike gold twice within a genre that they helped define. I've been thinking about…
Little Town Hero — System Overload
Little Town Hero has one of the (if not the most) complex battle systems around today. It’s not a pick up and play sort of game and many Pokemon players drawn to Game Freak’s new RPG will likely walk away due to both difficulty and…
Crusader Kings III — A worthy successor to the grand-strategy throne?
Paradox Interactive's long-awaited, medieval grand-strategy sequel is upon us. With Crusader Kings III the developer's face a challenge; how do they successfully build on a game which ran for 8 years and featured over a dozen expansion…
Defend Humanity in Colony Siege, A Tower Defence-RTS Hybrid
Colony Siege mixes tower defence with bits of other genres such as real-time strategy. We have been playing it.
Drake Hollow — Great on the outside, hollow in the centre
The titular Drakes are less dragon in appearance and more vegetable (being based on Mandrake roots) and have a Tamagotchi-like dynamic to them. That's what Drake Hollow is built around.
Keep your dinosaurs calm in Parkasaurus
Have you ever felt like you could have done a better job than the people who made Jurassic Park but don’t have the serious dedication to clone dinosaurs from DNA? Well, now you can prove it to all your friends in Parkasaurs!
Beyond a Steel Sky — Different Body, Same Soul
The bright, utopian veneer presented by Union City quickly fades as you dig deeper into some of the narrative. Underneath it, the Council starts to come off as a big brother, almost totalitarian threat hiding beneath the surface dispensing…
Samurai Jack: A Battle Through Time is my chance to understand JACK
It’s kind of known now that my time consuming media as a child was both limited and observed. I was not allowed to watch Samurai Jack — probably due to Aku looking like a demon, or the amount of violence. Samurai Jack: A Battle Through Time…
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — Being The Missing Link
Surviving in the cradle of civilisation, or trying your very best to not screw up evolution for everyone.
Faeria is a huge CCG and strategy hybrid that goes as deep as it does wide
As (just about) the main tabletop reviewer here, my attention is often more on paper and card than it is on digital games. When a video game chooses to root itself firmly in board game mechanics however, my interest is always piqued. Faeria…