There's more quality of life improvements to make games and interactions easier than previous outings. Audio cues, spoken room codes and better social platform interactions are on offer
There's chaos in the shadows of 2032 Singapore, but in order to get to the bottom of the conspiracy behind it, Chinatown Detective Agency's owner Amira Darma will have to travel the world. Perhaps the most interesting thing about General…
Sometimes when a trilogy wraps up there's a feeling of wanting left afterwards. However, unlike in fiction, history tends to wrap up at the highest point of escalation; Wars rarely end with a whisper. Order of Battle's Red Storm expansion…
If you have a few hours to spare you'll have fun with the time you spend with Pink River. The music and gameplay flow into each other as you work your way down the river trying to stay afloat.
Keys and Kingdoms is a musical role-playing game that not only teaches you the fundamentals of proper finger placement and play-by-ear training but puts a bit of magic into the process.
Paradox Interactive's long-awaited, medieval grand-strategy sequel is upon us. With Crusader Kings III the developer's face a challenge; how do they successfully build on a game which ran for 8 years and featured over a dozen expansion…
Where recently reviewed Red Star, tackled the pre- and early years ('38-'41) of WWII from the Soviet perspective, Order of Battle: Red Steel takes the conflict through '42 through to the critical battles of early '43. As I noted in the Red…
When it comes to exploration in games, it needs to accomplish one simple, yet lofty task for me to stay interested: Feed my curiosity. Let me explore a world that feels alive, teeming with possibilities and with so much character that I…
In a deliberate, continuing avoidance of the more classic, Western Front battles, The Artistocrats has, with Red Star, started a trilogy of expansions for Order of Battle which focuses on the Soviet's battles through WWII. One of the main…
Most office jobs suck, but at least you don't have to go through regular reassessment with fear of firing. Dropping Into Work revolves around a job where you literally might not make it through the day. As a self-titled "Factually Accurate…
In a world where animals have formed an advanced, modern society, there's a big problem when the early bird gets the worm. In Bird Cop you've got to solve the murder of Mr Willy Wormington and find out which hungry bird committed the crime.…
Alongside the long-awaited 1.30 Austria Update, Europa Universalis IV has received its next expansion pack in the form as Emperor, a DLC focusing on revolution, The Holy Roman Empire and reinvigorating the Catholic Church. For me, Europa…
Normally rogue-lite games become very boring, very quickly for me. I often find that I’ve seen most of the game in the first hour of playing, and so have little drive to keep playing the same areas, or enemies over and over again. Whilst…
Hero shooters have been a constant in gaming for the last few years. It seems like nearly every developer has taken influence in some manner from the genre, whether that’s in terms of the gameplay itself or the monetization. With Crucible,…
Truth be told, I didn’t attend my prom. it was of no interest to me to go and see people from school, who I didn’t like and would likely never see again, all while listening to music I didn’t like. But thankfully Beautiful Glitch has let me…
When it comes to survival games, you can choose from several kinds of zombie apocalypse, you can escape from despotic robots, and you can even survive freezing temperatures or explore a raging river. One theme that has seemed to be…
When I think of board game adaptations, I put them into two camps: those which retain a near-exact replica of the game that inspired them, and those which simply take the IP and produce a completely different sort of game. Wartile, which…
Having played about five hours of Children of Zodiarcs, I feel like I’ve barely even scratched the surface. This Kickstarter funded tactical role-playing game from Cardboard Utopia hits all the right notes for me, with deck building, dice…