Reviews
A flawed, feature-packed strategy game of management and simulation – Sheltered 2 – Review
Sheltered 2 is the sequel to the 2015 original of the same name. A feature-packed strategy game of management and simulation set in a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years after the fall of mankind. Gameplay combines three strategic tracks that bring together a comprehensive survival-themed experience. At its core is the struggle for domination of the wasteland against rival factions that requires resolution by conflict or diplomacy. This plays out over the longer-term with an emphasis on task allocation and character fulfilment taking place while base-building, exploring the world and accumulating resources.
Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive – Review
There are some battles that are just really well-suited for wargames. Battles like Waterloo, Gettysburg, Hastings or the Normandy landings, despite being from very different time periods, have more than a few things in common. These are an intriguing tactical position, exciting or famous military units, colorful characters and, perhaps, an exotic setting.
A gorgeous tactical RPG – Reverie Knights Tactics – Review
Reverie Knights Tactics is the debut title from Brazilian studio 40 Giants Entertainment. In this gorgeous tactical RPG, players command a small squad of fantasy fighters on a rescue mission to an occupied city. It's not all grid-based combat, though - there are plenty of story decisions to be made, locks to pick, and puzzles to be solved on your journey.
Hack your road to civilization in No Crossroads – Review by Armies And Castles
The days slowly go by in the newly settled colony, in the faraway northern lands. The guards drowsily watch the road, looking for raiders. The peasants work the fields. The woodcutters bring the lumber from the nearby forest. A group of miners is busy searching for gold in the southern hills.
Conquer the Cosmic Reaches in Master of Orion’s new remake – Remnants of the Precursors – Review
The skies are dark, yet full of lights. A thousand silver drops, piercing the black veil. Each is a mystery, a world on its own. Most are dead and cold - frozen landscapes of lifeless lands. Others are but ghosts, shadowy silhouettes of cosmic dust, unfit for any habitation. Yet, they have their uses too.
Brutal Orchestra – Review
Dying, what an interesting experience! Well, I suppose none of us really know anything about it, but we sure love to fantasize. What is next, after all is dead and gone? According to Brutal Orchestra, what is next is a full-on roguelite strategy experience of having to track down our killer in order to get revenge. Well, not that we care that much about it, but it’s something to do while waiting for our eternal reward, I guess…
Karawan – Review
You watch as your world slowly retreats into the darkness. The trees, the mountains, the villages. You think of all those who followed you to the end and those you've abandoned. Of all the hardship and all the greatness destiny has bestowed upon you. Now, there's nothing left of it - just the stars and the cold. You close your eyes. You return, in your last dreams, to the times when the road lay straight and clear before you. Seems like it was so long ago - yet you can almost see it clearly now. You can see yourself, standing proudly with your arm pointing forward, at the head of your caravan.
Gloomhaven – Review
WHAT TO EXPECT: Faithful and comprehensive digital adaptation. Layered card-deck mechanics. Deep and complex turn-based tactical combat. Requires the synergising ...
Yakuza Like a Dragon Review – Time to be a Hero
Yakuza Like a Dragon is the seventh entry in the Yakuza series that swaps real-time combat with Turn-based, but does it work? Find out in my review.
Xenia’s Ark – Review
Newcomer indie studio Malicious Games have produced an extremely ambitious but, at present, flawed 4X game which takes elements of ...
