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Unicorn Overlord is beautiful in its complexity
It’s hard to write a review of Unicorn Overlord: the game is big, and after over 30 hours I’ve covered…
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Rise of the Ronin reinvents hack-and-slash in a remarkable open-world Japan
Stalking through the neglected ruins of an empty graveyard, I crouched through a hole in a wall with my katana…
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Princess Peach: Showtime! is everything I wanted in a game as a little girl
If there was one thing I could count on growing up in the ’90s, it was the weekly family trip…
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Phandelver and Below, the best new starting point for D&D, gets its own luxury boxed set
A newbie Dungeon Master, I was attracted to Dungeons & Dragons by the opportunity to spend my free time making…
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I played 43 psychedelic Jeff Minter games in a row and now my brain is a puddle
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is a fascinating “interactive documentary” from Digital Eclipse, which previously applied the same format to…
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Blade Runner’s new case file, Fiery Angels, carries the TTRPG’s storyline forward, adds more immersive props
Free League’s Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game came out of the gate strong in 2022 with a fabulous core rulebook…
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Dune: Fall of the Imperium asks players to either confront Muad’dib, or bend the knee
Most tabletop role-playing games place their epic storylines more or less entirely in the hands of the players at the…
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Star Wars: Unlimited is a force to be reckoned with in a resurgent TCG landscape
My biggest beef with trading card games, a genre now in its fourth decade of existence, is just how hard…
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Pacific Drive packs up survival games and takes them on the road
Having already played a preview build of Pacific Drive, I felt confident going into my playthrough for this review. I’d…
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The Divinity tabletop game is perfect for the most chaotic Baldur’s Gate 3 fans
Before it set the role-playing world ablaze with Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios sent a considerably smaller, but still sizable,…
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