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Sinden Lightgun: A great solution for arcade emulation
Light-Gun fans rejoice, while almost every early light-gun no longer works due to changes in TV technology, the Sinden Lightgun is a great replacement that's easy to set up and feature-rich. I have always been a fan of light gun games,…
Golf Gang is multiplayer golf madness best with friends and stacks of modifiers
Up to eight players can simultaneously smash their way around, and off, hundreds of mini-golf holes in Golf Gang. I'm not sure when it happened, but golf has definitely made it back into vogue over recent years. We've had golfing RPGs,…
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery is a beautiful, touching game
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery takes you into the mind of an artist, looking to focus and work on her own artwork. Her day to day life is simple; she sketches, she paints, she eats and listens to music. All of this feels very…
Crusader Kings III on console is nothing short of amazing
I’ve often bemoaned the fact that console gamers never seem to get “proper” versions of grand strategy games. There are probably two or maybe three reasons for this — the first and second are because of how consoles are made; with limited…
Cantata is all about adaptation, supply-lines and strategy
Cantata is a celebration of the decades-long strategy genre, taking a lot of notes from popular real-time and turn-based games and wedging them into a tight 9-point (currently 3-point) campaign that chronicles three varied factions smashing…
Roguebook — The sequel to thief pamphlet
With all this said, it’s nice that Roguebook does enough to differentiate itself from the pack, with characters having wildly different cards that can be used, and the ability to attach gems to cards to change their utility. There’s also…
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…