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Heart Chain Kitty — Candy Coated Nightmares
Once upon a time, I watched David Lynch’s 3-hour long nightmare Inland Empire while I was heavily sick, and actively hallucinating from an intense fever. While watching that movie, the faces appeared to shift away from the actual heads, and…
Forged in Shadow Torch (FIST) — Animal Farm
A strong showing from TiGames, FIST is a great platformer with some unique mechanics, smooth platforming and interesting varied combat.
The Wratch’s Den — Building Villainy
The Wratch’s Den has you building a villain's underground lair to reclaim the three Orbs of Infinite Power and awaken the ancient gods.
Minecraft: Farmer’s Market Expansion — More Chaos, more fun
Minecraft Builders and Biomes is a board game that our children really, really enjoy playing with us. Traveling around the area, flipping over tiles to reveal buildings or monsters, and deciding if you want to fight, build or collect blocks…
Elegant Desk Chairs Don’t Need to Look Like Racing Chairs with Lakeland Furniture
When it comes to desk chairs, often gaming chairs are what I tend to see most of in the gaming industry. There isn't anything wrong with that. Many of them look like race car chairs, all the same basically, with different paddings and…
Mundaun — Pencilling in an odd one
I’m going to get this out of the way — this hand pencilled, enigmatic folk horror? It can be an absolute chore to play, and the switch port is in all honesty, a bit rubbish. But Mundaun is an absolute must play. It can grate — any combat…
Damocles Gaze — Soul-Searching in 12 Minutes
Players have 12 minutes to battle their way through an increasingly difficult rougelite as their avatar traverses the sanctums of their soul.
Like the radioative green gems it features, Chernobylite shines brightly — with some downsides
I’ve said this before, and I am sure that I will say it again — there’s nothing better than passing hours and hours of your free time with a videogame that massively exceeds your expectations. Chernobylite is exactly that kind of game, and…
What if Overcooked was Single Player? Well, you’d have Ooops! 2.
Once upon a time, I fell in love with Overcooked, and then proceeded to talk at every opportunity about how it should have a single player mode. You see, I had no friends to hang out with or who would put up with me when it came to playing…
Dice Legacy — Dicing with destiny
All your workers are represented by dice of different colours. Orange peasants are good for gathering resources, working in fields, and building structures, whilst blue soldiers can fight and build, but have no capacity for gathering or…
Xuan Yuan Sword 7 — A Beautiful, Flawed Masterpiece
A brand new ARPG in the Western sphere, Xuan Yuan Sword 7 weaves a tale about kindness, and the lengths that we will go for the ones we love.
Hues and Cues challenges your ability to describe colors
Colors, colors everywhere, but how good are you at actually describing the ones you see around you? And do you and your friends feel that colors can match your description? Well, Hues and Cues is a very interesting, yet simple, game where…
Big Rumble Boxing Creed Champions — Champ or Chump
If you go into it with the right level of expectation; players will find an arcade fighter, great use of a licence and some fun (if not long lasting) one on one competition.
Bristol 1350 sees you avoiding the plague and getting out of town!
When it comes to plagues, I feel that everyone now has had enough experience to understand how illness can be quickly spread and that it's something to be avoided. In Bristol 1350, you are put back into medieval times with a simple goal of…
HTC Vive Flow — Bite-sized VR Experiences, that you can fit in your pocket
The whole world is changing, technology is getting more advanced and smaller, each and every day. VR is not any different — and I got the chance to get my hands on a preview version of the HTC Vive Flow: a VR that’s quite small, and focuses…
The Forgotten City — This Mod Loops
Forgotten City takes you for a ride, but it's a ride that adapts to the player's pace. Some of its best moments are better left unspoiled. So, there’s going to be a lot of ambiguity throughout this review. Forgotten City serves an adventure…
Timberborn challenges you to build a beaver society in a post-human world.
The humans are either dead or gone and you won't be surprised to hear that they went out with a bang. In a world littered with the ruins of humanity and the dry wastes that used to be plentiful plains, Timberborn is about beavers giving…
Western Legends is more than simple redemption
Most gamers will be aware of the fantastic Rockstar Games’ western; Red Dead Redemption II — but the story of Arthur Morgan and his gang wasn’t the only wild west tale to be told in 2018. Around the same time, board game fans were doffing…
Hanabi Deluxe: What a Show! — the definitive edition of an evergreen classic?
The idea of taking a classic game and remaking it isn't new in either video games or board games, but few games have had the amount of makeovers as Aintoine Bauza's 2010 classic, Hanabi. This cooperative game about making a wonderful…
Cloud Gardens has you balancing plants and junk into diaromas
Post-apocalyptic worlds are notoriously strewn with loads of junk, often surrounded by vibrant plants that have overcome the trash and continue to repopulate an otherwise empty world. Often, this sort of setting lends itself well to horror…