In An Age Contrived, players take on the roles of gods ruling over the realm of Eldranir, influencing the mortal tribes to construct enduring structures in their honor. Building these monuments piece by piece and how you use your energy tokens afterwards represents some of the most crucial mechanics of

2020’s Coffee Talk was a cozy visual novel about an alternate reality Seattle, chronicling the lives of the titular cafe’s patrons. It was chill, thought provoking and, despite lacking traditional choices, had quite a lot of variance in how the story could play out. Now in 2023 we’

Dead Island 2 is something, man. I don’t think anyone expected this one to ever be released. Now here we are, three studios and almost nine years later and they kind of jumped us with this one. All the sudden, a few listings popped up last year and revealed

Chess is one of the most classic, iconic, and long-lasting board games of all time. The basics are simple but the strategy is endless. However, there are some people who have wanted more. So First Edition Gaming debuted the Gambit of Kings back in 2022, putting a fantasy spin on

It seems that the gaming market is flooded with rogue-lites that offer initial difficulty, but rapidly taper off in challenge as the vertical progression kicks in. We Who Are About To Die is not one of those rogue-lites. It’s difficult, and it remains difficult until you learn the mechanics.

Giant robots were my childhood, from watching Voltron and Transformers on early Saturday mornings to Gundam Wing on late nights, there was nothing cooler than a giant robot punching another giant robot.  Unless those giant robots also combined into an even bigger, cooler robot!  And that, of course, is the

I’m a big Sherlock Holmes fan, and you may remember how much I enjoyed the most recent release, Chapter One (my review here). While this one started our detective on his merry way, the newest chapter in the series will seek to break him only years later, and it’

Neil Armstrong once said about his experiences in space: “I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small”, and The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation captures that perfectly. Your travel among the stars is off to a very rough start. While your last thoughts may have been one of