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While nostalgia is often to blame for blurring over weaknesses and fogs up negatives, Full Circle has leaned heavily on it and for the better. If you ask people of a certain age about their favourite game then it'll almost certainly be one…

In a world where there are tons of messages online about games maybe not being child safe, but equally, a lot of people looking for a safe space for their children to game safley, it's really important that people keep making games like…

At the beginning of the day, while at Brilliant Indie Treasures, knowing my recent love for narrative sims, my editor pointed me towards Degenerate Star - where a small whiteboard had been erected next to the station to keep track of who…

I have played a number of games that have the energy of 'chaotic birds trying to destroy the world'. Geoland: Seagull Adventure is one such game, however here you play as a seagull that has been captured, so you must escape and then explore…

Prophet Margin intrigued me when I first saw it. It was being spoken about as thought it was a board-game inspired city-builder puzzler - that’s a lot of genres that usually don’t go together, so the curiosity in me took over and I just had…

Whilst at Brilliant Indie Treasures earlier in the year, I had the opportunity to play a handful of upcoming indie titles, and while wandering the floor, I spotted the slogan for Creatures Like Us plastered across the top of its monitor -…

Now, hopefully you all saw the fabulous Reality Fracture preview we got to do before the set launched. Now it’s here though, we’ve seen what the set is truly made of, and my word... The Echoverse isn’t just a “perfect” multiverse, it’s…

Welcome one and all to the time of year where we can put jumpers back on, enjoy enough hot chocolate to raise the GDP of several cocoa producing nations and crack on with some great board games. As we move into the festive period as well,…

I was winding down towards the end of Brilliant Indie Treasures and making my way out of the bustling hall when my eye caught a lonely station with no queue there. I was eager to get one last game in before I left for the day, so I plonked…

Xbox and Ikea are collaborating on a home gaming collection, that's aimed at teens and adults. Gaming is something that literally everyone does, so they've created a bunch of very functional and very fun furniture that are more subtly…

Whilst navigating the halls at Brilliant Indie Treasures, Cards On The Table caught my eye. As I walked past its station a player in front of me was winning a card game with a pair of 21’s. The developer noticed my pause and eagerly…

I spent the back half of one summer skinning boars in the Barrens. Not because I enjoyed it, but because I was level 38, the 100 gold mount was sitting there like a taunt, and I had roughly 14 gold to my name. That's WoW Classic in a…

Pair rhythmic records to your curious customers as George, AKA Mr. Records It's always a delight when a new rhythm game comes on the scene and does something clever or new. Mr. Records takes the familiar, side-scrolling button tapping that…

White exploring the bustling halls of Brilliant Indie Treasures earlier in the year, I was lucky enough to be able to sit down and play an early access version of First Class Rescue, a brand new physics puzzler. Admittedly, what caught my…

With game series like Hollow Knight taking the indie world by storm, we’ve seen a fair share of Metroidvania and Metroidvania-adjacent games roll out this past decade. It’s easy to assume, at first glance, that if a game is 2 or 2.5D and…

If, like me, you miss the eternal summers of the analogue days then Summer Road, and its wacky, 90s inspired world, might be a perfect little break for you. If you told me that there was an RPG all about three kids going on and adventure…

“Men will literally build a new multiverse rather than go to therapy.” That was the main statement of the Reality Fracture press briefing, and honestly, it's pretty valid. Magic the Gathering’s next Universes Within set is closing in on us…

Regardless of how a person first became a fan of colony builders (from Settlers to Dwarf Fortress, Banished to Timberborn), one of the first things that you learn is that the biggest threat to your existence is overextension. In Crowded - A…

Before I get into this article, I want to say that normally I’m very much a supporter of building your own deck for you, not against somebody else. Let’s be realistic though, no matter where you play Magic, you’re going to be playing…

Hello board game fans! Join me as we say goodbye to this year's devastatingly hot summer and we finally enter the "ber" months, where we switch rapidly to staying inside and drinking hot chocolate. Surely, now, there is simply no better…