Review by Matt S. Thea: The Awakening is one of the most impressive indie titles from recent years, and it has found an ideal platform on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a game that deftly moves between so many genres that it defies any attempt to pigeonhole it, but if you…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Last year’s Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics was one of my favourite indie releases. After all, it was a game that let you kill both eldritch horrors from the cosmos, and the even greater evil, the Nazis. I’m not sure Lovecraft would have approved of an alliance between…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes comes to us from the same developer that was behind Plague Road, and while those two are vastly different games (Plague Road was a tactical roguelike, Mecho Wars is an Advance Wars-like tactics game), they share a commonality; they’re gorgeous, visually imaginative…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Of the many, many indie games out there, one of those that really stands out as something that might have been overlooked by a lot of people that would otherwise love it is Thea: The Awakening. Superficially it looks like Civilization, but then you start playing,…
Read MoreReview by Lee F. Kingdom: Two Crowns is a 2D rogue-like base-building and defense game with quaint, well-animated pixel art and an overall minimalist presentation. It’s a sequel, and as the title alludes to, one of the biggest new features is that it includes cooperative multiplayer functionality. It looked very…
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Review by Matt S. I’m constantly criticising the way that stuff like Battlefield and Call of Duty handle World War 2. It’s not that I think World War 2 should not be the subject of video games, film, or anything else. It’s that I think there should be a moral…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited for an expansion to a game before, but the news that, among a host of other features, the upcoming Civilization VI: Gathering Storm expansion will include the native people of New Zealand – the Māori – as one…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There are a couple of Mordheim games on the market. There’s the really high quality Mordheim: City of the Damned on console and PC. As an exceedingly high quality skirmish tactics game made by developers that clearly cared a great deal about the source material, it…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Many years ago now, when DigitallyDownloaded.net was itself a pretty new site itself (2012), one of the first games that I really got hooked on, in the context of what I was doing with the site, was a humble little iOS tactics game called Call of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I write this review through the groggy haze that comes when you don’t get enough sleep. For the last three nights I’ve got to bed no earlier than 4am, playing Civilization VI on the Nintendo Switch well later than I had meant to, only to get…
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