Review by Matt S. Here Be Dragons wants to be a satirical turn-based strategy game. What it is, though, is a deeply unfunny board game with an lovely (but pointless) art style. It’s fine for what it is, but it should have been so much more. Let’s start with the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Let me tell you a story. A story about Ravenloft. Ravenloft was a big influence on me from a very early age (in retrospect, probably a little too early to be into gothic horror). It was a Dungeons & Dragons setting in which an otherworldy “continent”…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo’s long-running Romance of the Three Kingdoms series has long been essential for fans of hardcore strategy. Based on the historical fiction novel of the same name, each game in the series challenges you to take a deeply fractured China and, through diplomacy and military…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Through the Darkest of Times is a critically important game that is so relevant and poignant today and we should all play it (and then be terrified by its implications). It’s the kind of game that belongs in schools and museums because the points its making…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s a rare treat when strategy specialist, Slitherine, puts one of its games on console. As someone who really loves Slitherine’s work, and strategy games in general, but doesn’t enjoy playing games on PC as a rule, when something like Fantasy General II does land on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Mittelborg wants you to think that it’s a blend of resource management, roguelike adventure, and esoteric storytelling about a doomed city that exists in the ether between planes. That sounds great, right? It did to me when I started playing this, and while I would very…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Back on the original PlayStation there was a game called Brigandine. I didn’t play it. I suspect a lot of people didn’t. It faded from popular memory quickly enough, and there was never a proper sequel. Now, though, 22 years after the original launched in the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I started playing Desperados III without having done too much research ahead of time. I know about the series itself, of course, but the last one of those was back in 2007, and it was produced by the now-defunct Spellbound Entertainment. That’s a long time ago…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Having originally released in early 2016, XCOM 2 has seen several ports and additions over the years. Compiling all of that into one neat package, fans can now take it with them whenever they go on the Nintendo Switch. This includes XCOM 2: War of the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It amazes me more than a little that Nintendo has allowed Advance Wars to sit on ice for so long. Yes, of course, Intelligent Systems is working on Fire Emblem instead, and that series is doing so well for it, but you look at the number…
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