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Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest is a sky-high remake
It can be a bit of a challenge to review games that are subject to a remake. Sometimes I have a strong opinion, or on other occasions I’ve never even heard of a particular game. In some cases, I didn’t like the original game, or at the very…
Pinball FX is Zen Studios’ Early Access relaunch, and its off to a strong start
In Early Access over on the Epic Games launcher, Pinball FX is Zen Studios' latest release. With it they've tried to change up and enhance the way that people collect tables, but it comes at a strange time and in a strange way. Zen Studios…
Kapital: Sparks of Revolution requires careful balance of class preference and resource
A great war has ravaged the world, reducing even the finest city to rubble. In Kapital: Sparks of Revolution you're the new mayor of a freshly-liberated town left reeling in the wake of destruction and you've got the unenviable task of…
Mörk Borg Cult: Heretic Explained
Cults, curses and a couple of campaigns, Mörk Borg Cult: Heretic is a supplemental zine that brings together some community-created content to deepen Mörk Borg including some useful tables and ready-to-play scenarios. Mörk Borg had a big…
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? — Family secrets revealed
All family isn't who you think they are. Figure out who tried to poison Uncle Marcus in this FMV mystery by uncovering all the family secrets.
Rogue Legacy 2 redefines the roguelike genre, without changing anything
I don’t have a great relationship with the roguelike genre. The idea of repeatedly throwing myself at a variable (and often unfair) task over and over again, usually for marginal gains (if any) and always for the reward of doing the same…
EWin Flash XL Gaming Chair — Some Concessions Required
Searching for a new chair can be a daunting experience. Especially when the market is so vast with chairs of all kinds. Also my height doesn’t help my chances at finding a chair that is a comfortable sitting height. EWin sent me one from…
Why you should pull the trigger on Colt Express Big Box
Big Box versions of popular board games can be a bit of a mixed, erm, box. It can be extremely tempting to think of the “value” you’re getting when investing in a box that includes a base game and any number of expansions, both in terms of…
Weird West — Wiki wiki Weird, Weird West
The gameplay itself reminds me very much of classic Fallout games, or Desperados if you remember that wild west adventure. You’ll move around an over world map by selecting where to go before exploring your destination. There are towns,…
Clash of Cultures Monumental Edition is the Civ VI of board games
Whilst I’ve previously gone on record to say that Through the Ages might be the ultimate civilization-building simulator, there’s no doubt that it does its thing in a fairly abstract way — as do other Civ builders such as Civilization: a…
Festival Tycoon — Promising start to a new spin on the management genre
Festival Tycoon sees players building and then running their own music festival, responsible for everything from band line-ups to accommodation to man management of clean-up crews. Keeping staff, sponsors, artists and punters happy is a…
Maglev Metro has some beautiful pieces!
We have a person in our board game group who just loves trains, so we have started playing a bunch of train games when they are around! Maglev Metro is a train related tabletop game where you and your friends are all competing to be the…
Backbone — No need to worry about slipping a disc
Arriving in a stylish and well-presented box, there’s very little to tell you what to do beyond a small card showing how to connect your phone. Attach your phone to the lightning port on the right side, pull apart the handgrips, and release…
Sheriff of Nottingham (Second Edition) takes bluffing games to a whole new level
Bluffing has always been a cornerstone of traditional card games, with games like Go Fish, Bluff and S**thead (or your local variant thereof) all being popular classics the world over. But sometimes, a game like Sheriff of Nottingham comes…
Onde — How do you pronounce that?
The sheer amount of fascinating shapes and colours that will appear ahead of you during your journey is amazing. Over the course of your three-or-so hours with the game, you’ll visit underwater worlds, lands in the sky, and a black hole in…
Diplomacy is Not an Option’s high walls smash RTS together with Tower Defence
In medieval-set real-time strategy Diplomacy is Not an Option, the peasants are revolting and unfortunately for you, you're the target of their discontent. Sliding into the 'base-building meets tower defence' space repopularised by They are…
Blood Rage is late to the digital party, but you still Mead it in your life!
When I think of iconic modern board games, Blood Rage occupies the top spot in terms of the genre that is affectionately known as “Ameritrash". This area control game from legendary designer Eric M. Lang and big-budget publisher CMON is…
Stardew Valley: The Board Game is a great adaptation of the video game
I have spent hundreds of hours in Stardew Valley the video game. I spent so much time cultivating my land, fishing, mining, befriending everyone, and otherwise ensuring my farm is perfect. So when I heard there was going to be Stardew…
Grammarian LTD can teach you great grammar
More than a few games have tried to gamify spelling and typing over the years, but most of them, like Typing of the Dead or Scribblenauts, have it more as an input mechanic than the actual core of the game. Grammarian LTD has you take on…
Splash Cars — Making a splash, or a terrible crash?
The police will try to smash you off the road, making your life more difficult whilst other road users will undo your good work by turning the road grey again. In a neat twist though, if you drive near them, they’ll become colourful too,…