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Hatch, Evolve and Battle in Creature Companions

Liam Freeman — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:32 +0000

Creature Companions from Rhino Rock Studios was exhibited at Pocket Gamer Connect London and I sat down and got my hands on an early build of it. It’s a brand new game, freshly out of prototyping, that focuses on hatching creatures to perform tasks, play minigames as well as doing PVP and PVE events. There […]

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6 years after its physical counterpart, Set a Watch on iOS still burns brightly

Matthew Smail — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Speaking as someone who played and enjoyed the original card game, I can say with confidence that Set a Watch on iOS is a faithful, polished adaptation of Rock Manor Games original title, and it’s one of the rare digital board games that feels just about as tactile and tense on screen as it does […]

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Axis Football 2024 continues the series’ fascinating evolution

Dan Taylor — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:00:36 +0000

Axis Football 2024 is a groundbreaking American football game, looking to take Madden‘s crown. When it comes to American Football games we aren’t exactly spoiled for choice, much like football/soccer major franchises and yearly releases eventually squeezed most competitors out of the top spots, reducing other survivors to fringe titles that struggle to reach a […]

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Nacon MG-X PRO Android Controller levels up mobile gaming

Jupiter Hadley — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:00:49 +0000

Mobile phones have come a long way in the last few years, becoming more and more powerful. They’ve basically become a gaming console on their own, with mobile gaming making up the vast majority of the gaming market. With so many different and complex games coming out, it’s no surprise that new controllers are being […]

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Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery is a beautiful, touching game

Jupiter Hadley — Wed, 18 May 2022 18:00:59 +0000

Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery takes you into the mind of an artist, looking to focus and work on her own artwork. Her day to day life is simple; she sketches, she paints, she eats and listens to music. All of this feels very relatable, until you look deeper into the world around you […]

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Grammarian LTD can teach you great grammar

Dann Sullivan — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 11:00:17 +0000

More than a few games have tried to gamify spelling and typing over the years, but most of them, like Typing of the Dead or Scribblenauts, have it more as an input mechanic than the actual core of the game. Grammarian LTD has you take on the role of a fresh-faced intern who’s wound up a […]

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Splash Cars — Making a splash, or a terrible crash?

Rob Covell — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 11:00:27 +0000

The police will try to smash you off the road, making your life more difficult whilst other road users will undo your good work by turning the road grey again. In a neat twist though, if you drive near them, they’ll become colourful too, and actually assist you. Often, a good first move is to go and claim a few nearby cars to make spreading the paint more effective.

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World Box is a high fantasy, chaos simulator sandbox

Dann Sullivan — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:00:23 +0000

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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Revisiting Broken Lines, a squad-based tactics game

JD Saltz — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:00:26 +0000

In “We-go” tactics games, turns are removed altogether and the player and enemies move simultaneously. Broken Lines is the most recent iteration of this style and a darn good implementation of it too. Instead of turns, the gameplay in Broken Lines revolves around eight-second windows of action where both your squad members and the enemy move and attack at the same time.

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Behind the Frame Is Art Come to Life

Matt Fuller — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:00:05 +0000

Behind the Frame was quite a new experience for me. Often when I hear the words interactive fiction or story-rich I tend to check out immediately; Which is to say I’m not a fan. Yet something drew me to this particular offering from Silver Lining Studio and as a result, I experienced a beautifully crafted […]

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf is not the 40k Tactical Strategy game you are looking for

Matthew Smail — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:00:13 +0000

I like to think that reviewers such as myself keep an open mind. After all, games are very rarely made by people who don’t care about the subject matter — especially not when you’re talking about independent games that are created outside of the influence of larger, more commercial entities. Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf is […]

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The 10 Best Mobile Territory Conquest Games

Jupiter Hadley — Wed, 26 May 2021 13:00:51 +0000

When it comes to the mobile gaming field, there are so many different types of strategy games out there. There are massive 4x strategy games, real time tactics based games, turn based games, and then there are territory conquest games. Territory conquest games allow you to, as you may have guessed, gain land in a […]

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Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus (Mobile) – Great game, but a not so great port

Matt Fuller — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:00:08 +0000

Yes, I’m reviewing another Warhammer game. Having now played the miniature’s, video games and a few spin-offs, I feel fairly qualified to talk about these games and the IP. When I had the chance to play the mobile port of Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus, I jumped at the chance. But after playing this version, I feel […]

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Island Saver is a game all about saving money and the environment

Jupiter Hadley — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:00:13 +0000

Often when non-games companies produce games to promote their other services, sometimes they can end up being unfun and acting like a giant advertisement that is just slightly interactive. I always do an internal sigh when I start to open games and see big names of companies that I am sure have very little knowledge […]

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Gordon Ramsay: Chef Blast — What is Ramsay doing in video games?

Jupiter Hadley — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 14:00:13 +0000

I love food games, as you probably know, and I love Gordon Ramsay — the angry, firey, TV chef who criticizes food on the internet and happens to be featured in various mobile games with his name. Will this game be about food? Unlikely. Will Gordon care? Nope. What even is mobile gaming with celebrity […]

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Tsuro — The Digital Game of the Path

Rob Covell — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 19:00:00 +0000

Right off the bat, Tsuro looks really nice. You’re presented with a desert-like patch of sand with a copy of the board game on it that you are instructed to open, resulting in the game board unfolding and the pieces being placed onto it. The visuals and general presentation are excellent, and really give off a relaxing style that’s synonymous with the game it’s based on.

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Root’s digital adaptation is Dire Wolf Digital’s finest work to date

Matthew Smail — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000

It’s no small thing being asked to produce a digital adaptation of one of the most popular new board games of the last few years, but Dire Wolf Digital (who previously gave us the excellent Raiders of the North Sea) have really gone to town on Cole Wehrle’s exceptional Root. I first got my hands […]

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Jackbox Party Pack 7 — House Party

Alex Wilmot — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:00:42 +0000

There's more quality of life improvements to make games and interactions easier than previous outings. Audio cues, spoken room codes and better social platform interactions are on offer

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She Sees Red — Better dead than red

Rob Covell — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:00:12 +0000

As the story goes on, you’ll find that your choices make both small and large differences to the subsequent scene. Whilst you’ll still reach the finale regardless of your decisions, there are four different endings. You’re encouraged from the start to play through more than once to get a complete picture of the story, and it’s certainly true that I needed a couple of runs to put it all together.

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Faeria is a huge CCG and strategy hybrid that goes as deep as it does wide

Matthew Smail — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:00:57 +0000

As (just about) the main tabletop reviewer here, my attention is often more on paper and card than it is on digital games. When a video game chooses to root itself firmly in board game mechanics however, my interest is always piqued. Faeria is very much a board game, but it uses its digital presentation […]

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Casetify — Design and durability

Jupiter Hadley — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:00:33 +0000

Picking a phone case is something that I have spent a lot of time struggling with. I always want something that looks cute, but I also am quite clumsy and end up dropping my phone to the death. I don’t like bulky items either, so having those industrial cases that turn your phone into a […]

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Build A Bright Legacy In Sagrada

Hira — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:00:02 +0000

Sagrada's stained glass windows take on a more calculated form with careful dice placement.

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Choose wealth and notoriety, or take the moral high ground in Beholder 2

Matthew Smail — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 11:00:14 +0000

I’ve always been a fan of the humble point and click adventure, but in recent years, it hasn’t felt enough to deliver the same tried-and-tested gameplay that made this genre so popular during the nineties. Beholder 2 is essentially a point and click adventure, but it mixes narrative, puzzle and exploration elements in a way […]

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Property Brother Home Design — I miss American TV

Jupiter Hadley — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 13:00:47 +0000

I used to watch a lot of Property Brothers back when I was in America, where it featured on HGTV each week. I love the dynamic between the two twins — one a real estate agent, the other a renovator — as they help couples and small families make the house of their dreams within […]

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Dr. Cares – Amy’s Pet Clinic — Become a vet with a rival!

Jupiter Hadley — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:00:09 +0000

Have you ever had someone in your life that is out to challenge everything you seem to do? A rival, following you around forever, trying to beat you down? Well, in the small town of Snuggleford, Amy Cares has a rival with a storied history. Dr. Cares – Amy’s Pet Clinic is a casual-targetted mobile […]

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Metamorphabet spells fun

Jupiter Hadley — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 11:00:24 +0000

When it comes to educational games the gameplay can be as simple as ABC, but rarely are they fun. Metamorphabet feels specifically made to solve that problem. Learning games are often not too engaging or fun, however, Metamorphabet brings joy in poking and moving letters of the alphabet around, bending the letter to become something […]

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HopBound — A nice friendly game about rabbits

Rob Covell — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:00:21 +0000

Things get brutally tough as you go on, to the point with this being nigh-on a ‘rage game’ — games that tend to lead to players rage quitting due to the difficulty. In Darius Guerrero’s games, there’s often a purpose to this that ties into the plot, so it’s worth persevering to find out what’s going on.

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MasterChef: Dream Plate is like an Instagram game for food

Jupiter Hadley — Thu, 28 May 2020 18:00:51 +0000

I’ve been known to take quite a few food pictures and post them on Instagram in my time, and that’s sort of what MasterChef: Dream Plate reminds me of. It’s a pretty simple concept: instead of cooking up the food you’ll be purchasing it and plating it, then taking a picture. I like cooking games […]

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SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off confusingly starts with pancakes?

Jupiter Hadley — Thu, 14 May 2020 13:00:19 +0000

When I was a child, SpongeBob SquarePants was the cartoon of choice. My first alarm clock sang the F is for Friends song, my toy chest was covered in foam character stickers, I had little toy figurines — I had a lot of Spongebob stuff. When I first started playing with the Playstation, we had […]

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Hidden Through Time is the tenuously educational Where’s Wally that does just enough

Matthew Smail — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:00:27 +0000

If you’re a fan of Where’s Wally, then you’ve probably been waiting your whole life for a video game that recreates the same fun as the classic book series. Thankfully, Hidden Through Time is here to save the day, and with 26 levels spanning four time periods, you’ll have more than your fill of spotting […]

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The EPIC Card Game might be the MTG replacement you’ve been waiting for

Matthew Smail — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:00:39 +0000

With its roots firmly planted in the same soil as Magic: The Gathering, EPIC Card Game is a 2015 deckbuilding and card battling game that is about to see a full digital relaunch. As someone who first learned to play MTG via the Duels of the Planeswalkers system, I couldn’t wait to try it. As […]

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Ailment — Shooting my way through a spaceship

Rob Covell — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:00:50 +0000

Starting out in a med-bay on your spaceship, the Frontier-16, you quickly realise things are a bit wrong. You’ve been unconscious for three days having been on an expedition team sent to another ship, the Endurance. It seems that there was something on the Endurance that led to something going horribly wrong, as the crew aboard the Frontier-16 are now all trying to kill you.

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Yellow & Yangtze is a punishing strategic masterpiece available both physical and digital

Matthew Smail — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:00:42 +0000

Yellow & Yangtze is the semi-sequel to Tigris and Euphrates, with both games featuring a similar design from the now legendary Dr. Reiner Knizia. This later version moves the theme from Mesopotamia to China and publisher Grail Games has not been shy about producing exceptional components. For those who prefer gaming on the go, an […]

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Warhammer Quest II — The End Times works on mobile, but ported?

Matthew Smail — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Warhammer Quest II — The End Times is the provocatively named sequel to, erm, Warhammer Quest and much like the board game it is based upon, it presents a combat-focused dungeon crawling experience with light RPG elements. Sounds good right? Well, maybe. On your mobile phone (where Warhammer Quest II originated) the game is probably […]

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Tick Tock: A Tale for Two is a co-operative mystery game like no other

Dann Sullivan — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 12:00:23 +0000

Co-operative gaming has been getting a renaissance of late, but Tick Tock: A Tale for Two takes local co-operative and applies it to the puzzle genre in a fantastic way. Same screen gaming has been making a massive comeback over the last few years, for PC and mobile gamers at least. Where there were historically […]

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reky — Slide & Colour To Proceed

Hira — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 19:00:03 +0000

reky slides and colours its way to freedom with its quirky puzzles

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Beamdog’s Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 and Icewind Dale & Planescape Torment Bundles — What price on the past?

Matthew Smail — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:00:16 +0000

When I first booted up Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition on my Xbox One X, I’m not sure what I was expecting. Maybe, I don’t know, something more than I got when I first booted up Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition on my Google tablet back in about 2013. Back then, it made sense — a new […]

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The terrifying Possessed have arrived in Mordheim: Warband Skirmish

Preferred Partner Posts — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:01:01 +0000

The possessed have risen up as a new foe in tactical RPG Mordheim: Warband Skirmish. The excellent Mordheim: Warband Skirmish continues to be one of the most content-packed mobile strategy games on iOS and Android. Back on Halloween, Legendary Games finally got around to adding the terrifying Possessed, the last of the 8 original warbands. […]

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A season as Leeds United in Football Manager 2020; New features and changes in review

Matthew Smail — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:00:21 +0000

People love rituals. Most of us have several — whether we know it or not. One of mine happens annually, when the release date for the new Football Manager game is announced and I feverishly prepare myself for what will be at least a thousand hours of clicking Continue, occasionally interspersed with something more interesting, […]

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Into The Dead 2 — A headlong hike into zombie hordes

Rob Covell — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:00:28 +0000

Into The Dead 2 works in pretty much the same way as the original, with you barrelling headlong into the undead hordes, only a handful of bullets to your name. You can control whether you run towards the left or right of the screen, fire weapons and throw grenades — that’s about it.

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Top 5 Not so Scary Halloween Games

Jupiter Hadley — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 12:00:41 +0000

I love Halloween just as much as the next person! I like dressing up, getting candy, decorating the house, and, well everything pumpkin themed. What I don’t enjoy is the horror aspect of Halloween. Each year I am presented with many, many horror games that I just don’t want to play. Instead, I opt for […]

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Potion Punch 2 — It’s nearly cooking

Jupiter Hadley — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:00:46 +0000

Cooking potions and preparing fish is very much like cooking meals, as such, Potion Punch 2 is a cooking game and one I have enjoyed playing. I’ve played far too many levels, got so many upgrades, a favorite character, and yet at level 40 I often die — but that’s okay! Potion Punch 2 is […]

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Pack Master — cute and colorful suitcases

Jupiter Hadley — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:00:51 +0000

Often, the most simple ideas are ones that make for the most fun gameplay. Pack Master, a simplistic yet juicy mobile puzzle game is one such game. In Pack Master, you are tasked with packing various items into a suitcase… and that’s basically it. All of your suitcases are peculiar shapes, full of color and […]

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Food Truck Pup — Cook crepes with a Shiba Inu chef

Claire Lickman — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:00:59 +0000

Manage your own food truck selling crepes in Food Truck Pup by Game Start — a cute and addictive pixelated mobile game, featuring a Shiba Inu chef.

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War Dogs: Air Combat Flight Simulator WWII — Drop Torpedos

Jupiter Hadley — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:00:19 +0000

War Dogs: Air Combat Flight Simulator WW II is a smooth-control flight simulator featuring loads of planes from Germany, UK, USA, Japan and Russia. I don’t know much about the fighter planes that were around during World War II, but War Dogs: Air Combat Flight Simulator WW II (wow, that’s a long name) seems to […]

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Puzzle your way to city-planning success in Concrete Jungle

JD Saltz — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:00:32 +0000

Concrete Jungle is dense and can feel like several games compressed together, but compressed in such a way that the complexity and spark of each idea is still preserved. At its core, it's a puzzle game constructed around deck-building, set on a grid and using urban planning as an overall theme to tie all of its elements together.

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Pathways/021 — Grab the Bottle

Louis Sullivan — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 11:00:40 +0000

Grab the Bottle is a Rube Goldberg puzzler, somehow oh-so familiar. There are games that exist in a different format in our memories to their actual format, things seen through a filter that was never there. The graphics looked sharper, fog wasn’t as apparent, controls weren’t as limited as we remember, some of the games […]

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Cook To The Beat — Food-based Rhythm

Jupiter Hadley — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:00:49 +0000

Another food game, this one with some music to make it stand out. Cook To The Beat is a simplistic mobile cooking game where you are basically just chopping up a bunch of ingredients that sort of make sense to a recipe, trying to get the biggest combos possible. Music plays in the background, you’re […]

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Witcheye — So many enemies.

Jupiter Hadley — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:00:57 +0000

A pesky knight has stolen away all of your ingredients and valuables, and you — as the titular Witch — must fight against hordes of enemies to recover them. Your goal in Witcheye, however, is much more challenging than one might think. You see, as a magical witch, you have decided to half your travel […]

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Rest in Pieces — Take on your nightmares

Jupiter Hadley — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:00:59 +0000

Nightmares often come to life when we are dreaming, presenting us with what we fear most. In Rest in Pieces, you must take these nightmares head on, swinging yourself away from anything that can harm you. Rest in Pieces sees you playing as a series of characters trapped as porcelain dolls — reducing you to […]

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