Review by Matt S. RollerCoaster Tycoon is one of my pet loves. Right back from the release of the original in 1999, it has been a series of pure wish fulfillment; after all, who doesn’t want to build and manage a theme park? It also had a wicked sense of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Football Manager games look like spreadsheets. They feel like spreadsheets to play. If spreadsheets had a smell, they’d smell like them too. On a fundamental level, it seems so silly that there would be this sports game franchise which doesn’t involve any on-field sports action. And…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. In Australia, climate change is hitting our farmers hard. Prolonged drought, ruined crops… it’s not a pleasant time to be a farmer across much of the country. That’s something that most of us don’t think about much. We live comfortably in cities where agriculture is almost…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. If it wasn’t for Project Highrise landing on Nintendo Switch just a week ago, I’d be recommending Townsmen. The Nintendo Switch is a perfect device for city building simulators, but aside from a really (really) poor port of Cities: Skylines and a cheap little mobile port…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Last year, 11 bit studios took This War of Mine in a new direction with This War of Mine: Stories, DLC for the PC version of the title dedicated to providing in-depth narrative experiences in addition to the base game. The first episode, Father’s Promise, was…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The first time I put virtual paint to my virtual canvas, as I set out to make a career in the traditional arts, set against the backdrop of modern Paris, I drew the most juvenile thing I could imagine (i.e. a certain part of male anatomy).…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Lindsay, DDNet’s news editor, is going to hate me for saying this, because she is constantly telling me know great Reigns is, but I’ve not actually played either the original, or its sequel (Her Majesty) before. As great as these games have always sounded, they’ve been…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Valthirian Arc: Hero School offers a quaint, if not overly original concept. You’re tasked with developing a school that trains up heroes to fill martial and magical roles within the kingdom. In addition to managing the school facilities, you’re also responsible for taking these students out…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Reigns is a game about being many things at once, and it too, is a game which tries to be many things at once. It feels poetic to review Nerial’s compilation of the original and its expansion on the Switch, also a console which tries to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Senran Kagura, the franchise, is great. Whether it’s the water gun shooter, the mainline action brawlers, the anime or the upcoming pinball game, this series brings extreme, ridiculous, hyper-sexualisation in a way that can only be called “rambunctious”. Because those games also tended to play well,…
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