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Bomb Busters is one of the best cooperative games in recent years
Bomb Busters from Pegasus Spiele is a fast-paced cooperative deduction game where players work together as a bomb squad, racing against time to cut the right wires and defuse explosives before disaster strikes. It’s a clever and highly…
Ringo’s Roundup – Mail Delivery Never Looked This Cute
As a child, I was absolutely obsessed with Postman Pat. To this day, I have a small Postman Pat mailvan on my collectables shelf from my childhood that has survived. According to my mother, I used to point at every Royal Mail van and lorry,…
Ink Inside – A Splash of Creativity for the Action-RPG Genre
I tried starting this review in a few different ways, but I think the following sentence gives you the best summary: Ink Inside is an RPG in which doodles throw dodgeballs at each other. They do this to defeat the evil that has possessed…
Powerwash Simulator 2 – Cleanin’ up
Other changes are minor, but welcome. You no longer need to buy soap if you want to use it. Instead you have a reserve that refills over time which means you don’t have to waste money on replacing it. This is nice considering soap really…
To a T – earnest heart, choppy frames
To a T has all the right elements you'd expect from a Keita Takahashi game. It is earnest, charming, simple and full of the act of play, both mechanically and aesthetically. The music is joyous and the visuals are a lovely mishmash of…
Gloomies challenges you to strategically grow and harvest flowers
Gloomies love flowers, they love wearing them and collecting them. Your job is to oversee both the growing and harvesting of the flowers in this two phase, contract-based board game. Before I start, I should state that Gloomies is an…
Chivalry is Dead: Race for the Crown is great fun – if you approach it the right way!
Chivalry is Dead: Race for the Crown is a fantasy-themed chariot racing game from Naughty Jester Games that blends high-speed competition with chaotic combat, delivering a racing experience that is as much about survival and sabotage as it…
Abiotic Factor – Saving The World One Experiment At A Time
If you’ve dreamt of being one of the Half-Life 1 scientists except that instead of a resonance cascade the situation is far more bleak then now’s the time for you. Abiotic Factor’s full release delivers universes waiting to be explored and…
Foundry takes automation to the Nth degree
FOUNDRY is the epitome of automation and a factory simulation.
Creepy Shift: Roadside Diner – Food for fraught
Anyway, spooky things do happen, and you’ll be under threat from them before too long. Keeping the doors closed is easy enough as there aren’t any shenanigans involving them beyond you opening or closing them to pass through. The jukebox,…
Tokyo Highway: Rainbow City refines a good dexterity game into a great one
Tokyo Highway: Rainbow City, designed by Naotaka Shimamoto and Yoshiaki Tomioka and published by Itten, is a dexterity game that builds on the minimalist charm of the original Tokyo Highway while adding a splash of colour, a bit more…
6 years after its physical counterpart, Set a Watch on iOS still burns brightly
Speaking as someone who played and enjoyed the original card game, I can say with confidence that Set a Watch on iOS is a faithful, polished adaptation of Rock Manor Games original title, and it’s one of the rare digital board games that…
Misery – Tearing The World Apart One Emission At A Time
Misery is a look into a Stalker-inspired world filled with monsters, anomalies and sometimes the odd polkadot-clad dwarf, brought to you by Playtypus Entertainment. It really does put you into a miserable situation where you relive the…
Spongebob Squarepants: Titans of the Tide – The Hoff is Back
Spongebob Squarepants: Titans of the Tide is a single player platforming adventure game that is highly reminiscent of the PS2 classic, Battle for Bikini Bottom. Featuring all of the beloved characters you know well from the series it’s jam…
Yield! Fall of Rome has you pick apart the collapsing Imperium
As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny.
Quoridor Pac-Man is nostalgic, but in need of a bit of TLC
Quoridor Pac-Man is a curious hybrid that manifests as part abstract strategy, part arcade homage and if you were just in the market for Quoridor alone, it might be all the more interesting for it. Published by Gigamic, this edition of the…
Cascadero offers simple, cutthroat route-building from the legendary Dr Knizia
Cascadero is a clever, spatially-driven tile placement game from Reiner Knizia and Bitewing Games — blending route-building, area control, and cascading bonuses into a tight, interactive puzzle that rewards timing, positioning, and…
Escape From Tarkov – An Immense Journey in an Abandoned City
Escape From Tarkov has been in active development and beta for around ten years now, with the Beta being in a playable state for the good portion of that featuring events, quests and a lot of chaos as you try to Escape the region safely one…
Hispania is a small, lavish cooperative conquest simulator that delivers real crunch
Hispania, from Draco Ideas, is a focused and abstract historical strategy game that casts players as Roman praetors (and maybe a consul) tasked with subduing the Iberian Peninsula over the course of two centuries. Hispania is a primarily…
Micromacro: Crime City on iOS is a near-flawless evolution of the tabletop game
MicroMacro: Crime City was already a standout in the tabletop space — a small, affordable cooperative detective game that turned a sprawling black-and-white city map into a living crime scene. Designed by Johannes Sich and published by…