Board Game Review: Pac-Man: The Board Game
Back in the mid-80s, there were a glut of board games based on video games, with some absolutely incredible designs that, whilst quite dated by today’s standards, were nonetheless visually […]
Board Game Review: Here to Slay
Though hugely popular – in thanks due to its superb visual design and excellent production values – I’ve never really been a fan of TeeTurtle’s Unstable Unicorns. It’s a straightforward […]
Board Game Review: Monopoly Arcade – Pac-Man
I’m not a huge fan of standard Monopoly, as I find it to be a very outdated design that’s far too reliant on the luck of the dice to be […]
Review: Sea of Thieves: Roleplaying Game
Available now from your friendly local games store or directly from Mongoose Publishing I’ve become pretty addicted to Rare’s wonderfully emergent, open-world pirate video game Sea of Thieves. It’s deliberately […]
Board Game Review: Machi Koro
We all have that one gateway game that piqued our interest and showed us a world of possibility beyond the roll-and-move simplicity of mainstream board games. Mine was The Settlers […]
Board Game Review: Marvel Battleworld: Mystery of the Thanostones
Far from a normal board game, Funko’s Marvel Battleworld: Mystery of the Thanostones has a strong collectable element to its appealingly cute figures, as well as blind bag/box type mystery characters – with the endorphin rush of cracking open the egg-like Thanostones cleverly woven into the game’s mechanics. All a single player needs to play is a single pack too, […]
Board Game Review: 8-Bit Box: Double Rumble
Iello’s 8-Bit Box is an absolutely fantastic concept. Styled as a classic console, it comes bundled with three games that each use their own custom components as well as shared bits and pieces from the core box, such as player controllers, dice and cubes. Each of the separate titles is packaged like a SNES game, with many video game-esque design […]
Board Game Review: Shadowrun: Sprawl Ops
As a fan of cyberpunk since the early 90s and a D&D player for even longer, the fantasy/sci-fi mashup of tabletop RPG Shadowrun always appealed to me. Though it could sometimes feel as if not enough is done with its fantasy elements – and that it may as well just be straight cyberpunk – it does have an appealingly detailed […]
Mobile Game Review: Fighting Fantasy Classics
Version Played: Android – Price: Free (Bloodbones included, other books available as in-app purchases) When I covered the Steam version of Fighting Fantasy Gamebook Appointment With F.E.A.R., I mentioned how much the series meant to me. With very little money in the mid- to late-80s, Fighting Fantasy books provided me with interactive, imaginative and exciting fun at a much more […]
Board Game Review: Centipede
Having owned an Atari 2600 as a kid – and playing it well into the late 80s, given that games could easily and regularly found for pennies at car boot […]
Board Game Review: Duelosaur Island
My dinosaur obsession – or, perhaps more specifically, my dinosaur theme park obsession, thanks to Jurassic World: Evolution – has spilled over from the TV screen to the tabletop, with two player board game Duelosaur Island being the latest way I’ve discovered to scratch that very particular itch. The little brother of critical and commercial darling, Dinosaur Island – a […]
The Cloud Dungeon – Review
Available from http://www.andhegames.com My love for tabletop RPGs (TTRPGs) started a long time ago – way back in the early 80s, when I became obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons. I’d […]
