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Fatekeeper delivers Visceral, Beautiful Combat
They say the devil is in the details, so, in the case of Fatekeeper, he’s got plenty of places to hide. It's absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. For a more-than-affordable, single-player narrative RPG experience Fatekeeper offers brutal melee…
Security 51 – Please Present Your Alien Identification
There are jobs that sound considerably more exciting than they actually are. Security guard, for example, probably isn't a profession that immediately conjures up images of cosmic horror, government conspiracies and the possibility that the…
You win Pounce by spelling with your score
Over the past ten years we've reviewed an absolute stack of board games here on B3 and (secretly) we've played even more. Pounce answers a question that a lot of games don't even attempt to: What do you do with your winnings? What I mean by…
Montabi makes for an Excellent Chimera
There are certain pairings that go well in life. Wine and cheese. Milk and cookies. Chocolate and custard creams (screw you M&S for that unholy abomination and its effect on my blood sugars). With Montabi, Akupara Games brings another…
Minecraft Dungeons II challenges you to quest together in the Sift
Minecraft is a household name at this point and something that I swear everyone has played at least once. It's just one of those games that is everywhere! When the original Minecraft Dungeons came out, we played a fair bit of the game, but…
Relic: The First Guardian deserves a remake to do the concept justice
It’s no secret that Relic: The First Guardian flopped. It was janky, filled with AI content in any language other than Korean (with no way of having Korean voice and English text, so you’re stuck with the slop) and ran at between 15 and 55…
Long Cow challenges you to grow the largest, and longest, herd
In Long Cow you'll take on the role of a cattle rancher, competing against other players to raise the largest possible herd, including some of the longest possible cows, all while the other players race to do the same. Somehow, Long Cow…
IRON NEST – Artillery Warfare Has Never Been This Satisfying
There are a lot of games out there where you jump into a tank, or you can temporarily take control of some smallish artillery piece and point and shoot at some digital enemy. Then there is IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator, developed and…
Sovereign Tower is a reactive, narrative experience crafted with precision
Like a mix of Dispatch and Reigns, Sovereign Tower sees you manage your knights of the round table and make decisions about your nation(s). Where Sovereign Tower could have been a quick, replayable little management game evolves into a…
Feed the Scorchpot is a surprisingly cerebral dice game
In a nice twist from “videogame genre but roguelike”, new indie darling Feed the Scorchpot is actually “board game genre but roguelike” and this subtle difference carries into every facet of the game. Dice rolls are a key part of the…
Marvel Crisis Protocol: Alliances – Night of the Goblin is a fantastic cooperative battler
Marvel Crisis Protocol – Alliances: Night of the Goblin is a streamlined, fully cooperative board‑based experience that distils the cinematic energy of Atomic Mass Games Marvel: Crisis Protocol miniatures game into a more accessible format.…
“May the Clean Be With You” in PowerWash Simulator 2: Star Wars Pack
In a not so much of a long time ago, in a living room maybe far, far away came the new DLC for PowerWash Simulator 2: Star Wars! It might seem like an odd combination, one is an epic space opera involving Jedi, Sith, blasters and the fate…
The 8BitDo Retro Cube 2 Speaker N Edition gives Powerful Performance before all else
The 8BitDo Retro Cube 2 N Edition speaker is inspired by the NES and features its influences design in the shape of the classic directional pad. It offers a four way output for clear coverage in any direction, making sure everyone in the…
Extreme Outliars – How well do you want to know your friends
Extreme Outliars are one of those types of games where you are sort of getting to over-know your friends, through rude questions that dig into your opinions on various things in the world. The actual design of how you play the game is the…
Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Bloodmoon makes death your friend
Taking place in and around the Red Moon Manor, you’ll get to pick from a number of new characters from the Bloodmoon clan and those surrounding them as you try to explode as many monsters as you can in that iconic thirty minute time limit.…
Pieced Together is a scrapbooking, coming of age story
Pieced Together is a cozy, heartfelt, narrative-driven game where you play the role of an adult, going through your childhood scrapbook, when you are suddenly reminded of your best friend. You start off writing a letter to her, but before…
Moss: The Forgotten Relic combines platforming with an adorable protagonist
VR gaming is something that I've never been able to experience, largely due to a lack of the hardware. Thankfully, there are plenty of fantastic games out there that are slowly getting ports so that we can get our hands on some of the…
WEGO World War II: Overlord stretches from Touville to Flers
Being out of my comfort zone, as well as testing an extremely interesting, and intense, game, are both huge understatements.
Dead by Daylight brings us our first Native American Survivor Shane Wiigwaas
After a long hiatus from Dead by Daylight (Kaneki finally got to me one too many times), I found myself beginning to log back in more and more often, especially with the new killers and survivors I have missed. The first came from the The…
Frontline: Assault Corps WW2’s per turn allowance helps it stand out
Originally, I went for the American campaign, but not the tougher, free DLC, Operation: High Castle.