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Tiny Towns – Build the most efficient town
Tiny Towns is an abstract strategy game with city building as its main focus, where you and up to five other players are building a four by four grid-based town. This town is one that needs to be created in a specific way, which will in…
Akedo x Pokemon Christmas Shoes make a lovely gift!
Christmas is just around the corner and finding gifts is often something that everyone struggles with! I tend to gift a mix of items, including stuff I know people will use often. Things like a pair of shoes might sound like a simple gift,…
Paris: La Cité de la Lumière has you designing a chaotic street
When it comes to the streets of Paris, sometimes the buildings are placed in pretty weird spots. In Paris: La Cite de la Lumiere, you will decide where these houses go, so that yours have the most light cover from the streetlights dotted…
Mount and Blade II Bannerlord is a bit too big for its boots – but my, what fancy boots they…
When I was still a wee lad in short trousers, I was amazed by several things — video games, movies, chess and mediaeval warfare. As I played basic 8-bit games like North vs South on my NES and watched movies like Braveheart, I dreamed of a…
Myth of Mist Legacy – Mad as a bag of cats
The issues with the translation don’t stop there either, as there are some instances translations just aren’t done. Menu buttons still appear in Chinese meaning I’d have to guess which button was which. Words run out of space in dialogue…
Shoot for the Stars – General knowledge through numbers
Ever feel like you know a bunch of pointless knowledge? In Shoot for the Stars, you can benefit from knowing lots of random things! In each round, you will actually be trying to solve the answer to a question, without going over the amount.…
Temple of Horror – I’m afraid to play this again
Many of the stages contain threats, such as generic enemies that chase you, or traps that will instantly dispatch you, sending you back to the beginning of the level. These things can be fine if done well, but Temple of Horror just feels…
Paper Flight Super Speed Dash – Paper thin
I’m partial to the occasional chillout game. Power Wash Simulator and PC Building Simulator are nice, light games that you can have fun playing to destress or whilst listening to a podcast. They have a satisfyingly simple gameplay loop…
Defuse is all about building instead of setting off bombs
Defuse is a territory capture-style game where you are in a city, full of bombs. This city doesn’t just have one type of bomb, it has several types that cover different areas. You need to defuse these bombs to make the land usable and then…
Splendor Duel sparkles as an outstanding two player board game experience
Ah yes, the art of making a quality two-player board game is a tough one to master. Perhaps the most commonly played and toughest player count to get right, almost any game needs to cater for duo gamers. Whether the focus is on friends and…
Settle in to your comfy chair, its time for Brewmaster
As an ex home-brewer myself, Brewmaster is a very interesting prospect. I might as well just come out and say it — slotting in somewhere between a walking/narrative simulator and at times an unintentional physics puzzle, Brewmaster pretty…
Vampire Survivors – Half a twin-stick shooter
In those moments where I’d put together an absolutely killer build, playing Vampire Survivors scratched that itch that only the likes of Dynasty Warriors can reach. It’s immensely satisfying to mow down acres of monsters simply by walking…
Sounds Fishy is a fact-filled party game!
Sometimes, our tabletop group is particularly big — but many games do not actually work for a large number of people. Sounds Fishy, however, is a really fun party game that works for two to ten players, meaning you can play this game in…
Dig deeper and deeper for treasure in All Mine
All Mine is a mining-themed game where you and your friends are all racing to get a set number of victory points, mining through rocks and seeing what is below. It’s a fun and relatively simple game to play, with a few different phases to…
The Last Hero of Nostalgaia – Soulslike Gameplay and Satire Make a Winning Combination
One game stood out from the crowd thanks to its satirical, shameless humour and surprisingly enjoyable gameplay during my trip to EGX, and that was The Last Hero of Nostalgaia, an action-adventure Soulslike that became a favourite of the…
Hokko Life let’s you build a town, but doesn’t give you a bed
When it comes to lovely games to spend my evenings with, I often go for slice of life adventure games, where I can just relax and be a part of a village — one that doesn’t have loads of issues going on. Hokko Life feels like a fusion of…
The Fridge is Red – Giving you chills?
It’s spooky season, and what better way to spend it than with a fridge filled with frights? The Fridge is Red is an anthology horror game featuring six bite-sized experiences for you to shiver your way through, with an overarching plot much…
Game Jam is a card game about creating a game
Sometimes, it feels like developers create games designed for other game developers. Game Jam is one of these games, as it’s all about creating a game and then pitching that game idea without having your studio go bust. This is done through…
SKÅL! – Drinking and dice
Each player selects their god and takes four dice of the matching colour. One player then turns over a card from the centre of the table, and everyone races to stack their dice in the same formation as those on the card. Your four dice…
Sandwich Masters has you creating slightly strange sandwiches
I am a huge fan of food-based board games, so I was delighted when I saw Sandwich Masters at Tabletop Gaming Live, as it was a new food game I had not seen before, with neat looking art. In this game, you are racing against the other…