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Overland — Go west young pup
Overland is a turn-based roguelike that casts you as a survivor on a more-often-than-not doomed road trip through a devastated American wasteland. Driving from the East Coast to the West, you must scavenge for supplies, invite other…
All Walls Must Fall — A Temporal Techno Tech Noir
Berlin, 2089; the Cold War never ended and the Berlin Wall still stands. A nuclear bomb has gone off in the city. It’s up to you and your STASIS operative, Kai, to travel back and forth in time on a single night to figure out who was…
Join the Order of Warlocks in Warlocks 2: God Slayers
Rise to fame and claim your seat in the Order of Warlocks in Warlocks 2: God Slayers! Warlocks 2: God Slayers, ah yes, a game that at first glance looks like it would be incredibly intuitive and unique. Something that any roleplaying fan…
Chocolatiers — Creating cute chocolate boxes
Chocolatiers is a two to five player tabletop game about creating very beautiful boxes of chocolates. I backed it on Kickstarter a while back and have eagerly waited for the day to come when the box arrived. That day was recently, and it's…
Super Slow Sloths — Don’t win the race.
When it comes to sloths, there is one thing that comes to mind — being slow. Sloths are known for being slow, lazy animals, which isn’t really the best for winning things like races. Running? Being fast? Not taking naps? It’s just not…
Senshi — Martial mastery
Senshi, from Arcane Wonders, is a small box, very low key design from Dan Manfredi. The game centres around the idea that each player is one of the titular Senshi — a trainee monk under study from an ailing master. With the master fading…
Grindstone — Razor Sharp puzzler
Grindstone is a puzzle game where chaining attacks on colored creatures allows you to destroy them to move around the room.
Donut Nab — Fast reflexes needed
Fast reflex games have a very specific audience. People who like living on the edge, waiting for a card to be placed so that they can grab whatever is in the middle of the table. In Donut Nab, that item is three different colored donuts,…
RONE 2e — Tidy boxful of post-apocalyptic aggression
In RONE (Races of a New Era) 2 players face off across a post-apocalyptic landscape in a battle for supremacy. Each player has a hero with unique abilities and they must deploy units, tactics and technologies to bring about a grisly end for…
Potion Punch 2 — It’s nearly cooking
Cooking potions and preparing fish is very much like cooking meals, as such, Potion Punch 2 is a cooking game and one I have enjoyed playing. I’ve played far too many levels, got so many upgrades, a favorite character, and yet at level 40 I…
Man of Medan — is it a ship shape successor to Until Dawn?
Until Dawn was one of the five or six Sony exclusive games that first made me invest in a shiny new PS4. Supermassive Games' blockbusting horror game featured an all-star cast, incredible visuals and, most importantly, a heart pounding…
The Surge 2 — Which way to Undead Burg?
The Surge 2 moves the franchise along with a welcome update in mechanics, engine, design and story. The bugs and issues of the original removed, it’s a great application of the Soulsborne formula but with its own distinctive features.
Sayonara Wild Hearts — Musical Neon Love
Sayonara Wild Hearts has you riding on a fantastical neon highway in the sky as ‘The Fool’, the masked biker persona of a girl whose broken heart has impacted the balance of the entire universe.
Flashpoint: Fire Rescue — Hot under the collar
If you stare into the looking glass back through tabletop history, you’ll spot that we once reviewed Hotshots, a firefighting themed cooperative game from Fireside Games. Hotshots was not the first game to riff on the idea of firefighters…
Talisman: Legendary Tales — A game of Luck
Talisman: Legendary Tales is aimed at a new, much younger audience and even though it is faster and simpler than the original, it also manages to be way, way smarter. When you mention Talisman to a modern board gamer, you’ll likely get one…
Northgard — Probably the best RTS to hit Nintendo Switch
With the number of strategy games hitting Nintendo’s incredible Switch platform recently, you’d be forgiven for missing some of the more obscure entries into the market. Shiro Games Northgard is most certainly not to be missed however, and…
Untitled Goose Game — Honk!
You are a horrible goose in a quiet English village. Honk at the locals, steal items and cause chaos in Untitled Goose Game by House House.
Foodies — Building the best food court
When it comes to food courts, one of the best parts of being in one is the variety of food around you. In Foodies, you are looking to make your food court the most popular one around. Foodies takes a simple concept and gives you so many…
Zombies!!! — Greens and brains
Every fortnight, some of the team at B3 meet up to play tabletop games together, trying out new games and playing some old favourites. This week, we played Zombies!!! by Twilight Creations, Inc.
River City Girls — Girl Power !
Played out in either single player or couch co-op with drop in/out functionality, River City Girls sheds the common theme of muscle-bound freaks and dark gritty scenes within previous entries in the genre for a lighter, sassy and…