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Omega Crafters is an open-world survival game with programmable bots
Omega Crafter is a newly released open-world survival game developed by Preferred Networks, a technology company based in Japan. This is Preferred Network's first game release, so if you don’t recognise the name, you’re not alone. Omega…
Crow Country – No country for old hens
Crow Country wants nothing more than to be a survival horror from the 90s. Combat is slow and clunky, with you unable to move whilst aiming and nothing more than a hard to manoeuvre crosshair for aiming. You can improve this by solving…
Reveil – Three ring circus?
You play as Walter, a man who awakens from a strange dream to find that his wife and daughter are missing. Through a series of strange events, Walter finds himself at the circus where the three of them work, and sets about trying to find…
Starship Troopers: Terran Command – Raising Hell DLC
Now, with the influx of interest in Starship Troopers reappearing thanks in part to Helldivers 2, we have the Raising Hell DLC. This adds a new mini campaign including new troops and enemies, as well as a few challenge missions. For under…
Ikonei Island is a joyful, co-operative island adventure
Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure is the latest game in Snowcastle Games' Earthlock series. Within Ikonei Island, you are encouraged to explore the titular tropical island in its entirety and restore the shrines you discover along the…
Swarm 2 is full-360 VR action done right
Sometimes when genres evolve it's through new features or concepts coming to them, in the case of Swarm 2 it's through new technology. Notably, Swarm 2 feels like a successor to some sort of arcade shooter or shmup. Interestingly, it might…
Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance is hard. Really hard. Even on the easiest setting, which is recommended when you start up, you’ll lose a lot of missions and a lot of troops in the early going. I’m not ashamed to say that I restarted some…
You Gotta Be Kitten Me – Guessing Card Game
Cats and dogs are such a popular, well-loved pet that having a board game full of cute cats and dogs, does feel like it would fit in well with most homes. You Gotta Be Kitten Me is a card game where you must guess how many accessories or…
Bounties of Babylon – Man-of-war or total bore?
Turns are split into tile placement and movement stages. Tiles include a path as well as a colour. The path shows you where a ship can go, and must match up to another path, meaning you can’t have a path ram into land. The colour dictates…
The Muddles is a quick-play, family-friendly set-collecting card game
Pog, Jellycow and Wee might sound like characters from a children's TV show, but they're actually fusion animals from The Muddles, an easy to pick-up and play game of set making and card capturing. Big Potato Games have done it again,…
Mullet Mad Jack – Dream stream
Blisteringly fast-paced and deliriously good fun, Mullet Mad Jack takes a gorgeous 90s anime aesthetic and creates a rocket-propelled FPS game that doesn’t stop being entertaining after the credits roll.
Thunder Road: Vendetta is nostalgic fun, but don’t expect anything too cerebral
As a child, I never played the original Thunder Road, but thanks to the iconic, Mad Max inspired box art, I was always curious about it. Now, thanks to Restoration Games, a modernised version of the Jim Keifer/Milton Bradley classic is…
Planted – Making your Greenhouse Beautiful
Playing board games with a plant theme, especially ones with absolutely beautiful art, is always a highlight. Planted is one such game; where you are looking to create a little greenhouse of plants, all that have been cared for. This is a…
POOLS – Dip a toe
It was rare that I’d find myself going in circles in POOLS, and when I did it was really only in a small area that I could quickly progress from. Even so, I constantly felt like I didn’t know where I was going, and would find an exit by…
Fossilfuel 2 – Jurassic lark
It’s like watching a B-movie in that you know it won’t be perfect, but you’ll probably have a great time whilst you’re experiencing it. Fossilfuel 2 has its tongue so firmly pressed into its cheek that it’s popping out the side of its face.
Pinball M – System Shock DLC
This single table on offer for around a fiver depending on your region takes everything that’s so solid in the free table and gives it that cyberpunk horror spin. You’ll be launching your ball into cybernetically altered mutants, flipping…
Sushi Go!: Spin Some for Dim Sum is simple, tactile fun
Here at BigBossBattle, we’re big fans of sushi-themed games, and we’ve already reviewed Sushi Go!: Spin Some for Dim Sum’s older sibling, Sushi Roll, as well as several other titles like Maki Staki and even Sushi Bar. Lots of sushi games…
Classified: France ’44 disrupts German plans in the run up to D-Day
Having been interested in video games for more than thirty years, I’ve noticed that interest in WWII seems to come and go in phases. With several AAA games that deal with the war against Hitler’s Germany already on the horizon, it’s great…
Project Downfall – First-person hotline
The cartoon aesthetic belies how many severed heads, devastated bodies, and crushed bones you’ll leave in your wake. Linking this back to Hotline Miami once again, each chapter is split up into very short stages in which you need to kill…
Power Hungry Pets is a Single-Card Hand Shakedown
The Exploding Kittens team are back, this time with Power Hungry Pets a pet-based twist on modern-classic Love Letter. If you've not played 2012 release Love Letter then you're missing out. It's a quick to learn, quick to play game about…