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Police Stories and my tragic tales of twitchy trigger fingers
Put your reaction times and tactical thinking to the test in brutal top-down shooter Police Stories.
Pixel Game Maker MV — Easy Peasy Game Development
Pixel Game Maker MV gives you the tools to develop an action or platformer title. It then throws a very easy to use, visual scripting system on top and allows you to easily add multiplayer features with minimal effort.
Drunkgeon — Grape and grain
Up until now, I think that every drinking related board game I’ve played has been strictly a party game, usually with a real focus on drinking and very little actual game. Drunkgeon, whilst undoubtedly linked to the consumption of alcohol…
The Ancient World: Second Edition — Old dog, new tricks
In Ryan Laukat’s The Ancient World: Second Edition, each player will take control of a city state vying for the attention of five migratory tribes, fleeing from rampaging titans. To do this, each city must be bigger, better equipped and…
Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns — Three gems in a plastic brooch
A match three rpg, a killer soundtrack all adds up as an easy way to spend 20 minutes.
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…