Trials of Fire Preview
This week’s Less eXplored game is Trials of Fire. Trials of Fire (ToF) is a narrative-driven, turn-based roguelike with card-based combat. It’s set in a post-cataclysmic world where your party of heroes is tasked with surviving the desolate wastelands in order to make a positive impact on an increasingly bleak world. In your search of […]
Valkyria Chronicles Review
Valkyria Chronicles (currently available on PC/XBOX Game Pass) is a turn-based anime-style story-driven strategy game (say that five times fast) that published in 2008 by SEGA for the PS3. It ported to PS4, Switch, and PC. What it does differently from other games of the genre, like Jagged Alliance, is that moving your units reverts […]
Slipways Review
Have you ever played a 4X or Strategy game and thought there was too much fluff? Too much diplomacy and warfare getting in the way of your enjoyment? Well dear reader, let me introduce you to Slipways, a game that forgoes all that nonsense. There is no warfare, no building massive fleets, no diplomatic maneuvering […]
Dark Deity Review
Dark Deity by Sword and Axe is a tactical turn-based role-playing game strongly reminiscent of the classic Fire Emblem games. In Dark Deity, you collect thirty characters, form a party, and lead them through a series of battles and story scenes telling a cliché fantasy story in a typical fantasy world. Overview Dark Deity features […]
Monday eXcursion: Warhammer – Vermintide 2
Unless you are striving to avoid all things geek, then surely you’ve heard of Warhammer. You know, that Warhammer. The glorious spawn of Games Workshops, whose name is synonymous with fantasy awesomeness, strategy and tactics games, and unfortunately questionable business practices. But it’s a hell of franchise any way you slice it. For decades, the […]
Humankind: The Review
“HUMANKIND bursts onto the scene with the goal of directly competing with the 4X juggernaut Civilization in the realm of alternate history. Does it hold its own or is it crushed by the genre’s reigning king?” Overview The Civilization series has always been close to my heart. I played the original on a Super Nintendo […]
Conquest of Elysium 5 Review
Conquest of Elysium 5 (CoE5) is the latest installment in a venerable series of adventure strategy games by Swedish developer Illwinter Game Design, a small team headed by Johan Karlsson (designer/programmer) and Kristoffer Osterman (designer/artist) with additional writing from Daniel Serra and music by Adrian von Zeigler. The first version was released way back in […]
Brutal Orchestra Review
Brutal Orchestra, by developers Maceobob Mir and Nicolas Delgado, is a tactical turn-based rogue-lite set in the surreal and grotesque world of Purgatory. The premise of the story is that our protagonist, a cynical and downtrodden skeleton by the name of Nowak, was murdered and cast down into this vile place. Nowak is approached by […]
Dune: Spice Wars v1.0 Review
Introduction Almost one year on from our first look at Dune: Spice Wars that you can read here in the first part of this review, Shiro is bringing the game out of Early Access. After a lot of updates, balance changes, new features and a new faction addition, we take a look at what’s new […]
Rob’s Top Games of 2021 and 2022
Yes, it’s that time of the year again and I wanted to take some time to reflect on 2021 and the games I’ve enjoyed most this year. We’re going to be doing it a little differently this year, as some of us will be posting our own “Games of the Year”, as opposed to an […]