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5 up is a speedy push-your-luck game that’s perfectly portable
Push your luck mechanics are some of the most pure form of gaming, and one of the few that can be distilled down to a single action: flipping a coin or rolling a dice. It's the latter in the case of 5 Up, an incredibly easy to learn game…
Football Manager 2026 returns bigger and better – but as familiar as ever
Following the misfires that led to the famous managerial series missing a beat for the first time ever in 2024, Football Manager 2026 represents a bold leap forward for the series, introducing a new game engine, the massive inclusion of…
Tiny Bookshop – Add it to your library
You need to pay attention to what sells in each venue, as this helps you determine what to put on your limited shelf space. Kids books tend to sell better at the beach, so making sure you have plenty on hand would be smart, whilst the pier…
Arctic Awakening: An Interesting Mystery At A Very Slow Pace
Arctic Awakening is the episodic work of Goldfire Studios and has reportedly been in the works for around five years. The adventure pits you as the main character, Kai, who is involved in a plane crash in the arctic circle and is left with…
Clover Pit – Bet your life?
Here, you’re trapped in a room with a toilet, a slot machine, and a key in a lockbox. You’re forced to try and win enough money to pay an ever increasing “debt” with the hopes of eventually earning said key. Fail to meet your target, and…
Defenders of the Wild proudly reminds us to take action before its too late
Defenders of the Wild, designed by Henry Audubon and T.L. Simons and published by Outlandish Games, is a cooperative, card-driven game that blends asymmetric player abilities with ecological resistance. Defenders of the Wild shows its…
Call of Duty Monkey Bomb Holdem’ Review
The Call of Duty Monkey Bomb has been a staple in the zombies series for almost 17 years now and has been keeping those zombies away with it’s little tune and voice right up until the moment it explodes and clears the undead out and now it…
Faraway is a brief but clever distraction that makes a satisfying filler
Faraway, designed by Johannes Goupy and Corentin Lebrat and published by Catch Up Games, is a small-box tableau builder that punches well above its weight. Supplied to us by Hachette UK, Faraway is a small box game that offers a clever…
Macabre – Extraction Horror That Needs Some Work
Macabre is a four player “extraction horror” that pits you and your friends against a creature that learns as you play. The main idea is to go into the environment, complete a main task (and optionally a few others) and get out with all of…
Jump Space – High Octane Space Combat
Jump Space pits you and your crew against high stakes missions as you venture deeper and deeper into the depths of a massive galaxy. It lets you customise your ship with all manner of upgrades as you fight off the robots that have taken…
Jackbox Party Pack 11 – New Games and a lot of fun
Jackbox Party Pack 11 has all new games in a variety of different forms which are fantastic to play with your friends. With ten party packs under their belt, for a total of thirty products on Steam, it was just a matter of times before they…
The Scouring – I’m gonna RTS like it’s 1995
If you played the likes of Warcraft or Command & Conquer back in the day, you’ll feel immediately at home. The controls are exactly what you’ll remember, from contextual right clicking to numbered control groups, everything feels like…
Ratatan – The Beat Goes on and on and on…
Ratatan is a rhythm roguelike that has you build a small army of cute musical creatures that react to your lead in a musical adventure to take down hordes of enemies, room by room, on the journey to find their goddess. You can either take…
Music Drive: Chase the Beat – Chasing my Nostalgia
Action, Rhythm and Arcade Racing: Music Drive has it all. Arcade racers are almost a thing of the past nowadays, left behind as we continue in our mission for more realistic simulators. Forza, Gran Turismo and the Formula 1 games are among…
Reiner Knizia’s The Hobbit: There and Back Again is an epic in smaller scale
There and Back Again, designed by Reiner Knizia and published by Office Dog, is a charming and refreshingly straightforward roll-and-write adventure that invites players to journey through Middle-earth one quest at a time. With eight unique…
Earthborne Rangers is a thought-provoking eco journey that leaves a lasting impression
There’s a quiet confidence about Earthborne Rangers — an inherent sense that it has a lot to say, but it’s not shouting about it. Designed by Andrew Fischer, Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt, Andrew Navaro and both Adam and Brady Sadler, and…
The Best Life Adventure Games brings together the best of a genre
The Best Life Adventure Games is a book recently released by Jupiter Hadley, featuring her outlook on just under fifty of some of the best slice of life and life adventure games. If you have a game where you can step into another reality…
Cable Guys T-51 Nuka-Cola Power Armour Holdems puts your goods in the brotherhood’s hands
When adventuring out in the wastes of Fallout there’s one faction who you can depend on to guard and horde technology and that’s the Brotherhood of Steel. Who better, then, to watch your technology than this Nuka-Cola Branded T-51 Power…
Whirly Derby – Marble madness
The concept of Whirly Derby is pretty simple. You each have a set of marbles of a single colour, you select a number of marbles to enter into a race and put them into a provided cardboard cup, then roll them into the circular tray. The…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown offers turn-based cartoon combat in small slices
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a visually and mechanically striking reinterpretation of the TMNT formula. Rather than the arcade brawler that we’ve become used to, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is much…