The aliens have sent their orbs to our home, our planet, our blue marble. Earth. They want to wipe out the population to build big factories, or farms, or theme parks - I'm not really sure what they want. But they want us gone.
Personal Demons is the first game in a long time that I've been genuinely sad to box up and move on. I want to keep it and play it more.
Imagine if you took a game like Splendor and filled it with potatoes instead of gems. That's Yotei! Review's over, on you go.
D.O.T is the game I keep thinking about, and the one I keep wanting to go back and play around with a little more.
I miss the days when worker-placement games kept things simple and relied on solid core game design to tempt the box off your shelf and onto the table. Mutagen gives me that same feeling again, and I like it all the more for it.
Sakana Stack is quick, easy, gorgeous to look at, and a lot of fun. It'll join the likes of Scout and Tokkuri Taking in my convention bag for some time to come.
What initially looks like a light tile-laying game soon reveals itself to be a shrewd, interactive puzzle that a lot of people are really going to enjoy.
Explorers of Navoria is a concise, streamlined, tableau-building game, and I really like it.
The Old King's Crown has been sending ripples across my radar for a few years now, and with those ripples turning into waves after big showings at conventions like the UK Games Expo, I had big expectations
Diatoms. We all know what they are, right? Yeah, of course we do, but just in case anyone doesn't, let me explain.