Mac News, Reviews, Videos, Opinions – Big Boss Battle (B3) Gaming News, Reviews & Opinions Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:20:40 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://s3-b3bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/29090054/cropped-B3-Fav-32x32.jpg Mac News, Reviews, Videos, Opinions – Big Boss Battle (B3) 32 32 Drop Duchy – Princley Puzzle, or Ponderous Pauper? https://bigbossbattle.com/drop-duchy-review/ https://bigbossbattle.com/drop-duchy-review/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:00:22 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=90137 Drop Duchy – Complete Edition dropped onto Xbox Game Pass early this year, so I decided to take a look at this strange puzzle/deck building/rogue-lite. What I found intrigued me. If you’ve read any of my other reviews, you’ve probably realised by now I tend to start with some variation of “so the gameplay loop […]

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Dave the Diver is an exceptional adventure — but do darker themes linger beneath the surface? https://bigbossbattle.com/dave-the-diver-review/ https://bigbossbattle.com/dave-the-diver-review/#respond Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:00:19 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=89148 Dave the Diver on Xbox is a vibrant, genre-blending adventure that combines deep-sea exploration with restaurant management, delivering one of my favourite experiences of recent years. It’s colourful, funny, and packed with content — but beneath the humour and charm lies a more complicated theme: the ocean as a resource to be exploited, where almost […]

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Honeycomb: The World Beyond is an ecological, survival exploration adventure https://bigbossbattle.com/honeycomb-the-world-beyond-preview/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:00:02 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=88903 Drill down into a lot of sci-fi and you get to a handful of hero archetypes. Among the most memorable are the gung-ho marine, the loyal alien warrior and the resourceful scientist. The former solves problems with actions rather than words, while the latter uses tools, empathy and academics. Honeycomb: The World Beyond puts you […]

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Threads A Needle Through My Heart https://bigbossbattle.com/hollow-knight-silksong-review/ https://bigbossbattle.com/hollow-knight-silksong-review/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:00:57 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=88352 Unlike a lot of games I play or review, it almost feels like Hollow Knight: Silksong requires no introduction. Its massively successful prequel, Hollow Knight, came out over seven years ago, and immediately impressed with its world building, sense of dread and despair, and most of all, its bone crunching difficulty. I didn’t catch onto […]

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Yield! Fall of Rome has you pick apart the collapsing Imperium https://bigbossbattle.com/yield-fall-of-rome-review/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:00:13 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=87607 As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny.

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Kingdoms and Castles is cozy – but there’s nothing but crunch beneath the surface https://bigbossbattle.com/kingdoms-and-castles-review/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:00:21 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=87538 Kingdoms and Castles lulls you into a false sense of security. You start with a single keep, a handful of peasants, and a patch of fertile land. The music is gentle, the visuals are bright, retro and deliberately blocky, and the early game feels like a medieval sandbox. All you need to do is build […]

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BALL x PIT – Brick Breaking, Ball Blasting Fun https://bigbossbattle.com/ball-x-pit-review/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:00:35 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=88168 BALL x PIT is the newest offering from publisher Devolver and developer Kenny Sun. As you journey into the ruins of the town of Ballbylon (Which is basically a big ol’ hole in the ground) and dredge through the hordes of undead and monsters in search of treasure, survivors, materials and glory through a roguelite […]

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Jackbox Party Pack 11 – New Games and a lot of fun https://bigbossbattle.com/jackbox-party-pack-11-review/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:04:23 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=88014 Jackbox Party Pack 11 has all new games in a variety of different forms which are fantastic to play with your friends. With ten party packs under their belt, for a total of thirty products on Steam, it was just a matter of times before they got around to Jackbox Party Pack 11. For those […]

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9 Kings is an engine-builder all about army and base optimisation https://bigbossbattle.com/9-kings-review/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:00:40 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=86703 9 Kings simplifies base-building down to an almost entirely pure form by bringing in auto battler mechanics and silly numbers. As regular readers of the site will know, we zig-zag the lines between board games and video games on the regular. It makes sense, because there’s an uncanny amount of similarities between the two of […]

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Becoming Saint puts you on a challenging, micro-skirmish crusade for canonization https://bigbossbattle.com/becoming-saint-review/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:00:34 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=86566 Dominate the Italian Peninsula as you quest for canonization in Becoming Saint. There have been some excellent small-scale skirmish games released over the last decade, from Bad North through Into The Breach to the fantastic, and recently delisted, John Wick Hex. Their latest bedfellow is Becoming Saint, but unlike the rest, it’s less about defending […]

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Hungry Horrors is a clever, deckbuilder with a culinary twist https://bigbossbattle.com/hungry-horrors-preview/ Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:00:53 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=86626 People often describe the most menacing beasts as having insatiable hungers, be that for violence or evil. In Hungry Horrors, the monsters are very satiable, and you’ll only succeed by literally feeding them. When I think of roguelikes I often think of eating, but mainly because the earliest that I played  (ADOM) and ones that […]

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MythMatch twists the match-3 formula into something legendary https://bigbossbattle.com/mythmatch-preview/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:00:59 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=84106 After Zeus was done deposing his father and took the throne as king of then gods, ending the Titanomachy, things should have gotten better for the mortals down on Gaia. Unfortunately — as with many thrones won through violence and war — nepotism and worse turns any hope of fair leadership into a joke. Mythmatch […]

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Saleblazers fuses first person survival and shopkeeping genres into a glorious mashup https://bigbossbattle.com/saleblazers-review/ Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:00:54 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=83606 Saleblazers is a survival shopkeeping game created by Airstrafe Interactive, an independent game studio founded in 2019. Now of course, as you may have realised, a genre mix of survival and shopkeeping is certainly a new concept, and a bold one at that. However, bold as it may be, it surely is a combination that […]

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The Wandering Village is a beautiful colony-sim where you build, and live, on the shoulders of a giant https://bigbossbattle.com/the-wandering-village-early-access-review/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:00:28 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=83738 There’s that moment that happens in movies set in alien or surreal settings where the characters settle or hide on a rock or shelf of land and it suddenly rises up and reveals itself to be a massive, often harmless, beast. The Wandering Village puts you on the back of that beast, trying to survive […]

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Feed The Deep is an aquatic, cosmic horror masterclass in design https://bigbossbattle.com/feed-the-deep-review/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:00:01 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=83487 I love a good roguelite, and Feed The Deep is one of the best to come out in recent years. A clever balance of rules, design and procedural logic come together to create an experience full of tension and urgency. When you first see Feed The Deep, it might give off the wrong impression. The […]

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Frostpunk 2 expands well beyond the borders and ambitions of its predecessor https://bigbossbattle.com/frostpunk-2-review/ Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:00:43 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=83496 When Frostpunk launched back in 2018 it became an instant classic by fusing together base-building, society management and an almost-hopeless post-apocalyptic setting. Frostpunk 2 manages to build on every element of that as it challenges players to reach outward to survive 30 years after The Big Freeze. Frostpunk 2 doesn’t just build on the success […]

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Seablip injects pure adventure into a sailing sandbox https://bigbossbattle.com/seablip-preview/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:00:04 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=82409 Hire a crew, take to the seas, collect bounties and save the world in Seablip, a freeform sailing adventure. After a while of obsessively searching most people reach a point where they stop and suddenly realise that the search itself had become more important to them than what they actually set out to do; They […]

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Rusty’s Retirement is a relaxing cautionary tale that sits at the bottom of your screen https://bigbossbattle.com/rustys-retirement-review/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:00:17 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=82261 I’ve now clocked over 200 hours in recent Steam Sensation Rusty’s Retirement. I should have written up my thoughts long ago, but, as it turns out, I wasn’t at my computer for most of those hours; in fact, I’m playing it right now. Rusty’s Retirement is the latest idle-farming game to arrive on Steam, but […]

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Miniatures is four thoughtful experiences played out through the eyes of children https://bigbossbattle.com/miniatures-preview/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 13:00:58 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=82258 Miniatures is an artistic, thoughtful anthology of four games that touch on childhood experiences with deeper, darker undertones. I’ve played through the two-part demo of Miniatures a couple of times now, each time spending maybe 20-25 minutes across the two tales included of the four that will be in the final release. This, the next […]

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Cute Farmer Life – A Mystery Hidden Within https://bigbossbattle.com/cute-farmer-life-review/ Thu, 04 Jul 2024 18:00:54 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=82664 Being SE32’s first game, Cute Farmer Life holds more secrets than you might expect from a farming simulation. Putting you into the shoes of Matt, our protagonist, from the get-go, it immediately throws a hard message at you living to work. It outlines just how treacherous his life is, being a declining cycle of working […]

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Omega Crafters is an open-world survival game with programmable bots https://bigbossbattle.com/omega-crafters-review/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:00:33 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=82479 Omega Crafter is a newly released open-world survival game developed by Preferred Networks, a technology company based in Japan. This is Preferred Network’s first game release, so if you don’t recognise the name, you’re not alone. Omega Crafter serves as an introduction to basic programming in the form of Grammi, miniature robots that you as […]

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Age of Grit takes steampunk strategy to the skies https://bigbossbattle.com/age-of-grit-review/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:00:20 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=80373 Take to the skies in Wild-West-inspired, steampunk RPG Age of Grit. Age of Grit drops players straight into the shoes of Jebediah Rockwell, an ex-military cargo-ship captain who is firmly established in his Wild-West-inspired world. It’s quite refreshing to have a semi-open feeling world(you slide around map nodes) where the character is pre-defined and recognised […]

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Verses of Enchantment asks, what if poetry was battle magic? https://bigbossbattle.com/verses-of-enchantment-review/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:00:24 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=79885 Forget beat poetry, in Verses of Enchantment you have to win magical duals by beating each other with poetry. When Verses of Enchantment was doing the press release dance there was a heavy lean on the super-cool procedural generation that was at play behind its incredibly fun, poetry output system. However, it wasn’t worded like […]

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Seven Dwarfs: Legends Untold pits four players against the forces of evil https://bigbossbattle.com/seven-dwarfs-legends-untold-preview/ Sat, 24 Jun 2023 11:00:26 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=79115 Co-op roguelite meets one of the Brothers Grimm’s best-known stories in Seven Dwarfs: Legends Untold. Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee, or the verb-y ones, are out though. Instead Surprised Turtles’ dwarves have names that play into their particular skillset: Doc will heal, Archie is an archer and Thor has a honking massive […]

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Nine Sols combines a beautiful futuristic setting with deflection driven Sekiro-style combat. https://bigbossbattle.com/nine-sols-preview/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:00:32 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=79419 Take on the role of Yi in their arduous journey to take revenge on the Nine Sols, a mysterious group of beings that have built a whole world around their own preservation. Did you play Sekiro? Well, whether you have or haven’t it’s become a go-to reference for when games use a fusion of careful […]

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Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist is a delight that improves on the first in every way https://bigbossbattle.com/passpartout-2-review/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:00:54 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=79278 After Passpartout reached the top, there was only one place for him to go. Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist is an equally lovely, approachable and fun experience, but this time you exist in a more open, freeform world stacked with improvements, as you begin your climb from the very bottom to the top of the […]

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Mr Sun’s Hatbox is Tactical Espionage Action at its quirkiest and best https://bigbossbattle.com/mr-suns-hatbox-review/ Sat, 27 May 2023 11:00:31 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=79226 There aren’t many stealth games out there, and one reason for that is that it’s incredibly hard to balance what happens when stealth goes wrong. You’ve got to give your enemies the same brutal power that you have over them, and you need to be against the odds. Mr Sun’s Hatbox is a great stealth […]

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Moviehouse – The Film Studio Tycoon is a promising title that needs a little more time in the cutting room https://bigbossbattle.com/moviehouse-the-film-studio-tycoon-review/ Wed, 03 May 2023 13:00:58 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=79246 The movies, the theatre, the cinema. There are a lot of different names for the place where we go to make films, and that’s because of how far-reaching the movie movement was — through class, race and generations.  Moviehouse – The Film Studio Tycoon puts you in charge of a nascent studio, about to set […]

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Spirit Solstice is about the different ways people find their way through the dark https://bigbossbattle.com/spirit-solstice-review/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:00:30 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=77811 Originally released last year, for the 2021 PICO-8 Advent Calendar, Spirit Solstice is a celebration of the PICO-8 engine as much as it’s a peaceful, path-finding wander through a starry night. Before we start, it’s worth noting that in the time since it first launched Spirit Solstice developer, Jusiv, has added an extra area to […]

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Backbeat gives sliding puzzles a musical twist https://bigbossbattle.com/backbeat-preview/ Sat, 03 Sep 2022 11:00:59 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=77703 When it comes to great puzzle games, you need either a set of great game mechanics or a really good theme. good theme. Developer Ichigoichie showed that they have a deep attachment to music as a theme with their last title, Hexagroove, but they’re really going all in with Backbeat a puzzle game with a […]

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Birth is a calming puzzler about building a new friend https://bigbossbattle.com/birth-preview/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:00:58 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=76931 Have you ever found yourself in a strange place, alone and lonely? Even though you know that the world is just as weird and strange as anybody might find you, you just can’t seem to connect with others. In Birth the solution is simple, to gather up viscera, bones, matter and more to create a […]

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Quetzal is a platformer about deflection, reflection and rebounding off traps https://bigbossbattle.com/quetzal-impressions/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:00:43 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=76544 Quetzal is an upcoming 2D platformer all about quick decisions and precision timing. The combination of those two are the only way you stand a chance of making it through the depths of the Earth, to restore balance to the world. Falling toward spikes, dropping to be in line with bullets and tumbling towards rivers […]

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The Iron Oath could be a watershed moment for squad-based tactics games https://bigbossbattle.com/the-iron-oath-review/ https://bigbossbattle.com/the-iron-oath-review/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:00:58 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=77015 Goodness, it’s hard to be a mercenary leader. Yet, despite that, more and more games are appearing that put you at the helm of your own gang freelancing sword-for-hires. The latest title to let you lead a company of sellswords is The Iron Oath from Curious Panda Games and it’s available now in Early Access. […]

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To Hell With The Ugly is a jazzy Film Noir with its shadows swapped for amber https://bigbossbattle.com/to-hell-with-the-ugly-preview/ Sat, 21 May 2022 11:00:30 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=76937 Film Noir has never looked quite so bright. To Hell With The Ugly is a 1950s set point & click adventure game that also features turn-based combat and… a little bit of detective work. I don’t know anything about Boris Vian, his pen name Vernon Sullivan, or the book that directly inspired To Hell With […]

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Kapital: Sparks of Revolution requires careful balance of class preference and resource https://bigbossbattle.com/kapital-sparks-of-revolution-review/ Sat, 14 May 2022 11:00:29 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=76582 A great war has ravaged the world, reducing even the finest city to rubble. In Kapital: Sparks of Revolution you’re the new mayor of a freshly-liberated town left reeling in the wake of destruction and you’ve got the unenviable task of balancing the various social classes’ needs with rapidly restoring the town’s infrastructure. When I […]

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Diluvian Winds challenges you to build an outpost in the path of brutal floods https://bigbossbattle.com/diluvian-winds-impressions/ Sun, 08 May 2022 11:00:15 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=76405 The world is flooding, rising tides have started to claim large parts of the world and the oceans remain far from calm. In Diluvian Winds, you must build and manage an everchanging colony of travellers who pass by your lighthouse while fleeing from natural disaster. In Diluvian Winds you take on the role of The […]

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Terraformers is a colony builder that thrives with thoughtfulness https://bigbossbattle.com/terraformers-preview/ Sat, 30 Apr 2022 11:00:16 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=76384 Explore and populate the surface of Mars with experiments and projects in Terraformers a single-player, combat-free strategy take on space-colonisation. We’ve been to Mars in games more than a few times over the years, it has an incredible habit of cropping up in 4X games, but also a lot of games about ecological awareness — […]

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Mechajammer The Refracted Update signals that its time to head back to Calitana https://bigbossbattle.com/mechajammer-the-refracted-update/ Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:00:18 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=76282 Let's talk about Mechajammer again, specifically let's talk about it now that it's had its big v1.1 Refracted update.

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Crusader Kings III: Royal Court expansion overhauls almost every mechanic for the better https://bigbossbattle.com/royal-court-crusader-kings-iii-review/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:00:32 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=75950 When Crusader Kings III launched back in August 2020 it launched more feature-complete than I had originally expected. Crusader Kings II had been an experiment in expansion-pack led, live-product redesign for Paradox… in fact, it was a case of The Ship of Theseus, where almost every area of the original game had seen so many […]

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Prison Architect: Perfect Storm adds a much-needed events system https://bigbossbattle.com/prison-architect-perfect-storm/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:00:15 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=75616 Prison Architect’s Perfect Storm expansion adds an Event System that promises to keep your attention. When it comes to city-building, management and tycoon games there are more than a few sub-genres. Prison Architect, for me, has always fallen closer to the likes of Rimworld and Gnomoria, both of which are more about building an operational […]

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Cities: Skylines Airports adds much-needed depth to trade beyond borders https://bigbossbattle.com/cities-skylines-airports-review/ Sat, 05 Feb 2022 12:00:27 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=75578 Approaching its seventh year Cities: Skylines is still going strong, the latest expansion — Cities: Skylines Airports — adds depth to an area that’s been crying out for a little attention for a while now, and slots in perfectly next to the commercial specialities added with the After Dark expansion. Cities: Skylines is, without doubt, […]

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Battle Brothers’ Xbox outing finally brings one of the best strategy games to the TV https://bigbossbattle.com/battle-brothers-xbox-review/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:00:31 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=75570 Battle Brothers has finally brought its turn-based tactics to the Xbox, and it’s an almost perfect port, only held back by some controller and UI decisions. I’ve made my thoughts on Battle Brothers well known over the last few years, having originally followed it since it was back in its prototype, pitching days. It’s a […]

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Before We Leave is a peaceful, calming colony-building experience https://bigbossbattle.com/before-we-leave-review/ Tue, 28 Dec 2021 14:00:02 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=75204 Long after society as we know it has ended, people start to appear from the world below. Unexpectedly it’s been really unremarkable down there, and nature has done a great job of healing. Before We Leave is a city/colony building game that deliberately takes a passive, peaceful approach to the genre. History is full of […]

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Say No! More balances heart-warming and comedic delivery perfectly https://bigbossbattle.com/say-no-more-review/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:00:08 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=75034 Games are very good at eliciting emotions from players because of the way we interact with them, but Say No! More manages to not only deliver important, heartfelt messages about how we interact with others, but it’s clever enough to make you laugh as it does it. Comedy writing is pretty hard. Comedy itself either […]

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Hotel Magnate brings tycoon gameplay back to the lobby https://bigbossbattle.com/hotel-magnate-impressions/ Sat, 27 Nov 2021 12:00:59 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=74822 The Tycoon genre is thriving at the moment and, much like with the simulator space, it’s spiralling in all sorts of directions. Arcade Oven’s Hotel Magnate is grounded entirely in reality and really makes me wonder why there haven’t been more attempts to create tycoon and management games in the years since the Hotel Giant […]

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Mechajammer is a grungy RPG breaking new ground in the past’s future https://bigbossbattle.com/mechajammer-preview/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:00:48 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=74875 Grungy cyberpunk, espionage and patience combine together in Mechajammer, the next title from Serpent in the Staglands developer Whalenought Studios. Mechajammer is a lot of things, and while, at its core, it’s an open-world game set in the moody dystopia of 80s action movies like Johnny Pneumonic and Escape from New York, it’s also a […]

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Vagrus: The Riven Realms — Exceptional writing and an unforgiving but rewarding nature https://bigbossbattle.com/vagrus-the-riven-realms-review/ Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:00:25 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=74500 I’ve had a lot of trouble pulling myself away from Vagrus: The Riven Realms over the last couple of weeks. It’s a game that basks in and matches, its setting’s own complexities and harshness. The tale of people surviving in the ruins of a collapsed empire isn’t anything new, but Vagrus‘ world, Xeryn, is one […]

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Timberborn challenges you to build a beaver society in a post-human world. https://bigbossbattle.com/timberborn-challenges-you-to-build-a-beaver-society-in-a-post-human-world/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:00:37 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=74236 The humans are either dead or gone and you won’t be surprised to hear that they went out with a bang. In a world littered with the ruins of humanity and the dry wastes that used to be plentiful plains, Timberborn is about beavers giving civilization a shot, featuring all the quirks and dangers of […]

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World Box is a high fantasy, chaos simulator sandbox https://bigbossbattle.com/world-box-is-a-high-fantasy-chaos-simulator-sandbox/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:00:23 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=74191 Want to drop nukes on elves, or level a volcano with a meteorite? World Box has you covered. Titled on Steam as a God Simulator, World Box exists in an interesting space. You can play an active role in your planet’s human life, tweaking every element from sand dunes to volcanos; Or maybe you’ll just […]

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Ultimate ADOM — Caverns of Chaos (8.3) is a deep dive into the RPG element of roguelikes https://bigbossbattle.com/ultimate-adom-caverns-of-chaos-8-3-is-a-deep-dive-into-the-rpg-element-of-roguelikes/ https://bigbossbattle.com/ultimate-adom-caverns-of-chaos-8-3-is-a-deep-dive-into-the-rpg-element-of-roguelikes/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2021 13:00:05 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=73520 Ultimate ADOM – Caverns of Chaos is a long-awaited sequel to ADOM, but how well does it build on the classic, dungeon-crawling roguelike formula? The original ADOM, Ancient Domains of Mystery, was released a long, long time ago. First becoming available in 1994. I played that original version, and the revamped ADOM version that was […]

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