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The latest fantasy RPG of incredible length from Atlus! It’s time for an election for our next king, and the only way to do that is by possibly killing all the competition. It’s democracy in action. In this globe trotting adventure you’ll engage in all the things you’d come to expect from an Atlus game: spending time with your friends, killing god, possibly some form of dumb pastime, it’s all…

We all find ourselves hosting a party from time to time. Whether you want to or not, people will eventually turn up to your place and demand entertainment. Who are these people? How did they get in? Why did they choose you, specifically? Unfortunately, I don’t have any answers for that, but what I can do at least is provide you with a handful of board games that are great for light entertainment…

If you work a soul crushing office job, like I do, then you know the desire to get away from everything. To step away from the desk and maybe just never return. Unfortunately, money is required to live, and death is frowned upon, so the best we can do is take a holiday. Can’t afford one? Then hop on Dungeons of Hinterberg, a game all about going on holiday and getting away from the world… that…

When is a retro review not a retro review? When they’ve finally released Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door onto a modern console, that’s when! One of my favourite games of all time, this rerelease is mostly unchanged, and it’s all the better for it. Is it as good as I remember? Pretty much, but then I think about this game often. Sure, it may struggle with the trappings of a game from the…

I take a look at some classic RPGs that I remember fondly from my childhood, two greats from Level-5 Studios. Dark Cloud and Dark Chronicle (aka Dark Cloud 2 if you’re wrong) were greats of their time, games that tried to incorporate RPG dungeon bashing with city management. They’re quirky, they’re strange, but I crave more of them! While I’ve spoken of Dark Chronicle before, I think enough time…

Oh me, oh my. This may just be one of the greatest games of all time, let alone of the year. Balatro is an incredible deck builder that took the world by storm. It’s simple premise of playing an ever corrupting game of poker builds into something incredible as you work out the various quirks and ways the game can be twisted in your favour. Easily the Game of the Year, it’s almost too addictive…

I take a look at yet another Deck Builder today, except this one’s got a little spice to it. It has arena based combat! In Robot Quest Arena you pit your adorable little robot companions against one another in some sort of brutal blood sport, not too dissimilar to Pokemon, except if Pokemon had cannons, hammers and tesla coils strapped to their backs. They often don’t….

The latest segment in the Final Fantasy VII Remake series and it continues that sprint of the last game and keeps pace. A true love letter to the game and series, filled with delightful characters and fun quirky scenes. Yes, it probably gets a little overly convoluted at times, but overall it sticks the landing of us jumping off the big road we hit the end of last time. Also, there’s so many…

With the pleasant memory of Final Fantasy VII Remake still warm in our head, and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth just on the horizon, I decided to take a look at Intermission, the DLC that follows everyone’s favourite ninja, Yuffie. It’s short and sweet, but definitely fun and dumb. But does it also begin to add just a bit too much of the wider Final Fantasy VII world? Do people really care all that…

Everyone remembers those delightful pixelated RPGs from their childhood, unless you’re particularly young and your childhood was already three-dimensional and mostly overt violence and gore, yikes. In Sea of Stars you get to experience that past all over again with a fun and whimsical RPG filled with beautiful art and colour. Charming characters are everywhere to be seen, except in our…

In this Halloween special we look at a fun little board game, Castle Party. Can you throw an impressive and fun enough party to impress all your party guests, or will you embarrass yourself in front of the Pumpkin King, and watch as all your guests fall into the moat as you’re incapable of working out proper space management? A fun and simple game about trying to slot shapes together, like the…

Taking a look at the latest entry in the Final Fantasy series with Final Fantasy XVI. Will this Game of Thrones adjacent entry to the series live up to its inspirations, or will it get lost along the way, trapped in the overly bloated open world that’s filled with far too many tasks that go nowhere? It sounds like probably the latter, doesn’t it? Maybe Square-Enix just doesn’t know what it’s…

There’s a brand new Zelda Game that’s fallen from the skies and Tears of the Kingdom manages to improve upon its predecessor, Breath of the Wild, in spades. While I wasn’t particularly taken by the previous, wishing for the lofty seas of Wind Waker to lap over my face like so many cell-shaded waves, Tears of the Kingdom manages to cut through those thoughts like a sword that banishes darkness and…

A Fun Time in Muffin Time

It can be difficult to find a party game that actually works pretty well. A game that’s actually fun and not just, passibly okay. So many of them often provide little more than a simple distraction from ones own existential dread of possibly not having anything in common with those around you, or obliterates the need for conversation with wild and over the top fun filled with shouting and…

Quoth the Crow, Death’s Door

One of the wonderful indie games of 2021, Death’s Door is a delightful adventure game filled with character, charm, and charming characters. A simple combat and exploration system gives way to just the right amount of tension and depth that keeps things constantly tight and fun.

Fort is a Fortress of Fun

We dive once more into a deck builder that comes in a small box, but delivers a delightfully involved experience! Fort, published by Leder Games, sees you take control of a game of kids trying to build the coolest and most impressive fort your grubby little hands can manage all while juggling who you want to hang out with you and who might be a cool kid to fit into your particular gang. Tension…

Taking the Right Angle in Triangle Strategy

We all have that inherent desire to dabble in the odd bit of strategic warfare every now and then, don’t we? Thankfully, you don’t actually have to declare war and suffer the real life consequences in order to scratch that itch. Instead You can simply dive into a strategy game filled with complicated decisions both on the battlefield and off. That’s where Triangle Strategy comes in! Following…