Review by Matt S. Castle Battles is as casual as strategy games come. You’ve seen what this game offers, more or less, many times before, and, on a platform such as the iPad, which already has a glut of both casual and serious strategy games, this is going to struggle…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. I’m going to start this review a little more personally than usual, with this statement: I suffer from chronic pain. The kind of pain that no medication can take away, no doctor can cure, no message therapist can knead out. In the years since the pain…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. GNOG is delightful. It doesn’t really have a purpose, intent, or reason to exist, and that’s precisely why it’s a delight; it’s an acid trip given form and a playful bit of nothingness that’s really quite hard to put down. Each “level” of GNOG starts life…
Read MoreReview by Britta S. The first thing the Finch family starts building in 1937, when they are shipwrecked on Orcas Island, on the Pacific Northwest coast, is a cemetery; only then do survivors Sven and Edie, with their little daughter Molly, begin the construction of the Finch home. This is…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII is one of my favourite strategy games ever. On the PlayStation 4, it plays beautifully (proving that even the most complex strategy games can work using a game controller), looks beautiful, and has incredible strategic depth. Related reading: Matt’s in-depth…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is a Kickstarted RPG from French developers Enigami. From the start there is nothing shy about it, with vibrant colours, combat out of a classic martial arts movie, elemental magics that would make Avatar the Last Airbender proud, and the main character…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. At the height of his powers as a filmmaker and storyteller, Tim Burton had such a mastery over the juxtaposition of innocence and the macabre that his films had a tone all of their own. He loved dropping the gothic on suburban America, and loved making…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. Expeditions: Viking is the latest historical RPG from Logic Artists, a Danish developer whose last offering was all about forcefully bringing the military might of Spain to faraway lands like Mexico. As the name suggests, this is a distinctly Norse-flavoured reimagining of the same sort of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Here’s the thing: I like fighting games a great deal. I like the aesthetics of fighting games. I like the narratives that they throw up. I like speed, action, and excitement of them. I’ve spent hundreds of hours playing my favourite examples of the genres; Dead…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. MechRunner is an endless runner with guns and and a Transformer-like robot that can shift between tank and bipedal forms. That isn’t necessarily a recipe for a great game, but it should at least be a recipe for a bit of mindless fun. Unfortunately, MechRunner only…
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