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Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime – A Comedy Oddity for the Discerning Toad
Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime is an odd proposition. The game is witty, charming, and is clearly well-crafted. So why am I finding myself bouncing off it? Bonnie Bear is one of those genre-bending games that will end up being given a generic…
Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss – Mad fer it!
Finding the solutions to a puzzle will involve you finding and reading a great deal of those logs, as well as esoteric objects, and human or otherwise remains. As you find these, they’ll be added to your vault, with some of them posing…
Ancient Knowledge Review: Strategy, Decay, and Engine Building Done Right
Time might be the fire in which we burn, but with Ancient Knowledge, how much of that knowledge can you save? Ancient Knowledge is the kind of board game that doesn’t shout for attention with flashy miniatures or overproduced theatrics.…
Screamer – Drives like a scream
Screamer is absolutely gorgeous to look at. The environments fly by at a hundred miles per hour and still manage to look great, but it’s the cars that steal the show. They’re all absurdly proportioned, with every colour in existence on them…
High On Life 2 – Fun, Sun and Space Guns!
High on Life 2 is a direct continuation from the events of the first game, with you taking on the role of a bounty hunter, making space civilisation better one kill at a time. In the sequel you’re back to do it all again, with your freedom…
Boss Fighters QR is a satisfying boss battler with fantastic app integration
Boss Fighters QR, designed by Michael Palm and Lukas Zach and published by Pegasus Spiele, is a cooperative boss‑battler that blends traditional card‑driven gameplay with a clever and straightforward digital layer. Boss Fighters QR has a…
News Tower is a thematically perfect puzzle game wrapped in an engine builder
It's probably no surprise that we've been living in 'interesting times' since time immemorial, however, the way that news travels — and the news that does travel — is largely defined by the fourth estate. In News Tower you take charge of a…
Hive Blight has jpegs of real bugs and I love it
Hive Blight is the latest in a growingly established subgenre of roguelikes – that is auto-battler ones. Rather than turn-based tactics or deckbuilding, Hive Blight instead opts for a hands-off autobattler where placing your units and…
Spokes is a fast-paced, clever abstract game with a unique visual appeal
Spokes, designed by Bert Hardeman and published by Radical 8 Games, is a smallish-box title that immediately grabs your attention with bright, neon artwork and the promise of fast, tight decisions, an elegant structure and a puzzle that…
Keys to the Castle is a path-making, tile-flipping challenge for all ages
Carve a path through a locked castle using the Keys To The Castle, but be careful as the other players will be trying to do the same. If you're looking for a simple to set up family board game that calls on both recall and strategy then you…
Galactic Vault – Lock in
It reminded me of Mothergunship and Vampire Hunters with their gun stacking and modding mechanics, and that’s kind of the biggest problem I had with Galactic Vault. Every time I sat down — and genuinely did enjoy playing a run — I found…
Rowdy Partners is the niche trick-taking game that your four-player game night needs
Rowdy Partners, from designers Jason Hager, Darren Reckner and Capstone Games, is a team‑based trick‑taking game that takes the familiar structure of playing cards into tricks and wraps it in a gloriously over‑the‑top Mexican wrestling…
The Walking Trade is still in Early Access despite being past 1.0
Most of the games you find on Steam from indie developers have been through varying lengths of Early Access. Just last year 7 Days to Die capped off the record for longest Early Access period, a whopping 11 years! Others are as short as 6…
Trash Goblin – No Risk, but what Reward?
The premise of Trash Goblin is incredibly simple. You are a Goblin, you get given trash, you turn that into treasure (well, trinkets as the game calls them) and sell them in your shop. Trash Goblin, brought to life by Spilt Milk Studios, is…
Pokemon Fire Red / Leaf Green (Switch) – The Glowing Roots of a Juggernaut Franchise
Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green were released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004 (themselves remakes of Pokemon Red/Blue/Green that were released in 1996/98 depending on your region for the Game Boy). In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of…
A trick-taking game with the weight of Middle-earth on its shoulders.
Trick-taking games aren’t usually where you expect to find sweeping fantasy narratives, desperate last stands, or the weight of Middle-Earth resting on your shoulders. And yet, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Trick-Taking Game…
Gunnar’s Davis Glasses are stylish, sleek, wide-fitting and full of retro flair
The Gunnar Davis Glasses are a stylish and sleek set that offers eye protection with a bit of retro flair. With a comfortable wide fitting frame and a choice of two colours you can be sure that there’s a pair available to suit you for work…
Dominion is the deck-builder that started them all – but does it still hold up today?
Dominion, designed by Donald X. Vaccarino and published by Rio Grande Games, is one of the few modern board games that can genuinely be called foundational. Released in 2008, it didn’t just popularise an existing mechanism — it effectively…
Pioner – It’s Just Built Different
Pioner drops you, with no memories, into a wasteland world, tasked with exploring the wastes to find out what happened in your past and help a town of wanderers against the many terrifying creatures that hunt them. Pioner is self described…
Viticulture: Bordeaux Expansion Review – A Worthy Vintage?
With Viticulture, we’ve previously sipped along the Rhine, strolled through Tuscany, and now Viticulture: Bordeaux invites us to one of the most prestigious wine regions in the world to see what the locals are fermenting. First things…