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Earth Must Die! Review – Polite Apocalypse, Delivered with Alien Indifference
There are villains, and then there are the sort of villains who gaze thoughtfully at an entire planet and decide, with quiet conviction, that it’s all a bit unnecessary. Not evil, exactly. Just… inefficiently existent. Earth Must Die! is…
Small and simple adventure Under the Island is exactly what I needed
Nostalgia is a powerful tool in the gaming industry with genres like the first-person grid-based dungeon crawler (Hello Vampire Crawlers and Dungeons of DUSK) still resurging in 2026. Under the Island is the latest in a consistent string of…
Arkham Horror The Card Game Chapter Two Core Set Review – A Perfect Starting Point?
There are games that invite you to sit around a comfy table with friends and enjoy a pleasant evening full of laughs and light-hearted competition. Then there is Arkham Horror: The Card Game. This one hands you a flickering lantern, leans…
Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown Review – There’s Coffee in That Nebula
“There’s coffee in that nebula.” Few lines capture the spirit of Star Trek: Voyager quite like that one, and it’s a fitting starting point for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown, a strategy game that puts you in command of the…
Drop Duchy – Princley Puzzle, or Ponderous Pauper?
Drop Duchy - Complete Edition dropped onto Xbox Game Pass early this year, so I decided to take a look at this strange puzzle/deck building/rogue-lite. What I found intrigued me. If you've read any of my other reviews, you've probably…
ICARUS: Console Edition is a flawed diamond in a packed genre
ICARUS: Console Edition is one of the more ambitious survival games to make the leap from PC to Xbox, and in many ways it succeeds in delivering the same atmospheric, punishing, and strangely hypnotic loop that defined the original. The…
The Fortress proves that luck-based games still need agency
Chances to hit, effect procs, damage ranges and luck of the draw have been relevant to gaming for decades – longer if you consider the Pen & Paper RPG origins of those mechanics. Luck can make us cry “Bullshit!” just as easily as it can…
If you like accessible strategy games then this is Dewan you want!
Dewan, from designers Johannes Goupy and Yoann Levet and published by Space Cowboys, is an attractive, thematic strategy game that blends straightforward yet crunchy mechanics with a gentle post-apocalyptic story. It’s clean, elegant, and…
Focus – All about what’s not said
Some board games require a bit of mind reading, and so need someone that you are familiar with in order to play them. Focus feels like one of these types! It's a two player sort of card game (though all of the cards are square) where you…
Dark Quest 4 is a big stab of nostalgia, right to the face.
There’s something undeniably comforting about a dungeon crawler that knows exactly what it wants to be. From Brain Seal Entertainment — the studio behind other gems like Monarchy (which I happily lost an entire weekend to) and Story of a…
When the great eye of The King is Watching, you better be ready to get back to work.
The King Is Watching comes to us from relative unknowns Hypnohead, but is published by the figurative giants tinyBuild. To give you a quick idea of what it's about, Imagine Lord of the Rings, but in this instance the all-seeing eye is not…
Battle Puzzle 2048 Queens of the Abyss – Technically a Puzzle, but not fit for Royalty
EpiXR Games is at it again with another technically playable game with little to no instruction. Battle Puzzle 2048 - Queens of the Abyss (By the grace of the editors, now shortened to BP2048) is a reimagining of the 2048 game everybody was…
Get Bit – Cute meeples, fun game
I was drawn to playing Get Bit at The Dice Box King's Lynn on a recent visit due to how cute the meeples looked. That's not normally something that I really consider, but these meeples were little divers, with detachable limbs, which just…
Krafted Couch Charger – Just Lounging Around
It’s not often that you test something which requires you to quite literally sit on the sofa and put your feet up, but for the Krafted Couch Charger that’s exactly the idea. Featuring a wireless charger built into a silicone frame that is,…
Zumba Marble Candy Rush – Sweet Surprise, or Gut Rot?
I was a huge fan of the Zuma titles back when they first released, so when Zumba - Marble Candy Rush (ZMCR, please Ed?) crossed my desk I was excited — despite the obvious copycat behaviour. A good game is a good game, right? Even when the…
Capes – Crime Fighting Ain’t Pretty
Capes is a turn based strategy RPG set in a world not unlike ours. A shadowy corporation rules the streets, punishing those who try to do good whilst controlling the narrative and labelling them terrorists. The key difference? They have…
Darktide Hivescum DLC – Guns, Guns, Guns!
Darktide’s new Hivescum DLC was recently released, featuring a brand new class that features a bit of a twist compared to other classes: The ability to craft your own stimulants to enhance yourself mid-fight. The Hivescum class focuses on…
KingDomino on iOS is a gorgeous adaptation of a very simple gateway game
Kingdomino on iOS is a digital adaptation that feels both faithful and familiar to me, mainly because I’ve had a particular fondness for this game ever since playing it with my girls when they were very young. Seeing it now on a tablet and…
The Catstronauts Fish Finder Satellite fixes the main flaw of the core game
I was a really big fan of Catstronauts when we played it — there was just enough on to keep it interesting, and the way that it promoted co-operative gameplay felt both incredibly modern and refined. That said, there were two main issues,…
Mindbug x King of Tokyo is a fast-paced, small box design that is packed full of smart ideas
Mindbug x King of Tokyo is a surprising and yet extremely well-suited crossover. Richard Garfield has spent decades refining two very different strands of design: the tight, tactical cardplay of Magic: The Gathering and the big, swingy,…