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Nico Saves The State – And My Boredom

Rhys Davis Jul 9, 2025 0

Nico Saves The State slid into my inbox this week, and it initially made me suck air between my teeth. I'll be one of the first to admit that puzzle games, platformers and me usually don't mix. I can rarely handle anything more complicated…

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Worshippers of Cthulhu — Is it an eldritch blast?

Rob Covell Jul 8, 2025 0

To keep things on theme, the resources you generate are sometimes a bit more unusual. Instead of money, you have faith to spend on constructions, and whilst wood is a standard building material, the only clothing you can offer is robes and…

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Hidden Kittens: Kingdom of Cats – Spy the Cats!

Jupiter Hadley Jul 8, 2025 0

Some hidden object cat games simply have you trying to find as many cats as possible. Hidden Kittens: Kingdom of Cats is one of those types of games, where you are presented with a large, primarily devoid of color picture and need to just…

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Occlude – Dark heart of the cards

Rob Covell Jul 7, 2025 0

Each stage begins with a short story about someone who has done something terrible and has come across this very deck of cards. The deck will allow them to change what they did, but only if they complete a ritual correctly. There are hints…

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Black Metro is a Cyberpunk-style area control game with a few twists

Matthew Smail Jul 7, 2025 2

There’s a certain kind of game that doesn’t just ask you to play — it asks you to scheme. Black Metro, the debut title from Emesh De Zoysa and Absolute Ascendency, is one of those games. It’s a modern, asymmetric area control experience…

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Total War: ROME – The Board Game is good, but is it a Pyrrhic victory?

Matthew Smail Jul 4, 2025 2

Total War is one of my favourite video game series. You can imagine my excitement when I saw that Total War: ROME - The Board Game was in development and immediately began to imagine how they might have captured some of the best mechanics…

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Old Skies – Time’s arrow

John Mulcahey Jul 3, 2025 0

Wadjet Eye, a developer that any fan of pointing and clicking should keep close to their hearts and wallets, has returned with another gracefully told story about flawed humans. Old Skies is, it seems, a less flexible game than previous…

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Blades of Fire is an addictive blacksmithing and fighting adventure that I couldn’t put down

Matthew Smail Jul 2, 2025 0

From the outset, Blades of Fire feels unashamedly old-school. It opens with a cutscene that makes little to no sense, and the game takes an awfully long time to bring its memorable, interesting storyline to bear. That’s not really what…

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Panzer Corps 2: Frontlines – Cyrenaica

harley9699 Jul 1, 2025 0

You have the option of playing either Great Britain OR Italy. M'kay?

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Even after 13 years, Tokaido still tells a sweet tale for gateway gamers

Matthew Smail Jun 30, 2025 0

When we first reviewed Tokaido back in 2018, it was already 6 years old and board gaming was entering a Golden Age with innovative new games being released weekly and entirely new mechanics emerging all the time. Somehow, even then, Tokaido…

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