Before the film that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp had way too much fun with, and before even the Stephen Sondheim musical that more people should see a production of, Sweeny Todd was a Penny Dreadful. People don’t really know what these are anymore, but they were once wildly popular…
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Hundred Days is one of those wish fulfilment simulators that I am so glad exists. I love vineyards. I love touring them, tasting their boutique wines, and then staying for an à la carte meal at the vineyard’s inevitably pretentious-but-tasty restaurant. The food is always perfectly matched to the wine,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Hundred Days is one of those wish fulfilment simulators that I am so glad exists. I love vineyards. I love touring them, tasting their boutique wines, and then staying for an à la carte meal at the vineyard’s inevitably pretentious-but-tasty restaurant. The food is always perfectly…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. If you like empire-building games like Civilization, or city builders like Cities: Skylines, but you don’t have the hundreds of hours of spare time lying around, then firstly, hello fellow millennial! I hope you’re getting as utterly tired of the endless hustle that modern life demands…
Read MoreReview by Alex Kidman. Barney the dinosaur is a jerk. I’m not so much talking about the purple monstrosity/kid’s entertainer here (though he is pretty insufferable), but instead Barney the Raptor is just an outright jerk. Wants more Forest, then less. Wants more rocks, and also a live feeder so…
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This happens every year. As the Christmas season arrives, and I finally knock out all the major game release reviews that I need to, I look forward to things easing back a bit and that I can spend a bit of time doing other things (this year in partar I…
Read MoreVideos by Matt S. Over on YouTube, we try and fit in at least a couple of streams each week, mostly to give you the first hour or so of various interesting, quirky or different games. We’re still figuring out the exact schedule for these, but in the meantime, don’t…
Read MoreReview by Alex Kidman. One of the biggest surprises of the most recent Nintendo Direct was the announcement of Actraiser Renaissance. Long-held as one of the early jewels of the SNES library, it was an utterly dormant IP, right up until the moment it was revealed for a quick release…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M.It’s been six years since the original Sheltered launched. The game came out around the same time as Fallout Shelter, and shares enough superficial similarities as to be comparable, although with a premium price rather than a free-to-play model. I was worried it wouldn’t be successful, but…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. I do quite like Dice Legacy. I need to start the review on this note because I anticipate the rest of it will read like a laundry list of imperfections within Italy-based studio DESTINYbit’s dicey RTS. I like it because it’s a game about systems, randomness,…
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