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A crop of the cover of the rulebook for Dreadfleet with a pirate with a mossy back and horned red pirate hat and golden chin

Blood and Plunder: Finding Lost Treasure (Though Maybe Not the Kind You Want) in Dreadfleet

By Orrin Grey • June 21st, 2024

Just as Dreadfleet is one of the last games released before Warhammer’s “Old World” became the “Mortal Realms” of Age of Sigmar, it is also one of the last gasps of an aesthetic style that had once defined the brand but was already on the way out.

A screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3's infamous bear sex scene, but it's just a picture of a bear with a sly desire in his eye and a wet nose

I Want to Make Love to a Bear: Sex, Society and Baldur’s Gate 3

By Adan Jerreat-Poole • May 29th, 2024

How might we reimagine our relationship to the environment – in our own context of climate change, deforestation, and mass extinctions – if we understood bear sex as a metaphor for falling in love with the natural world?

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a close up shot of the game Super Boss Monster, featuring a library area and a hideout area with minion meeples standing there as well as some dungeon room cards like Kobold Union and Puzzle Door

But Not Too Bold: Building a Better Dungeon in Boss Monster

By Orrin Grey • April 3rd, 2024

The real draw of both Boss Monster and Overboss is the low-res pixel art of side-scrolling dungeon rooms (in the former case) and top-down overworlds (in the latter).

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A cropped image of the box art for Warhammer Doomseeker with those words in stylized text over a huge and ornate double-bladed ax

Death is Not the End: How to Win and Die Trying in Doomseeker

By Orrin Grey • February 2nd, 2024

This is a game where it actually does pay to die, if you can do it when you mean to.

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A crop from the cover for Ni no Kuni 2 the board game, with the title text laid over a cartoon image of a long dragon soaring through a partly cloudy sky over a quaint city below

A Question of Influence: Building Your Kingdom in Ni no Kuni II: The Board Game

By Orrin Grey • January 9th, 2024

In some ways, however, the simplicity of Ni no Kuni II: The Board Game is also part of its strength. It’s a game that’s easy to learn and quick to play. In a world full of overly complex titles packed with fiddly little tokens and pieces, it almost feels old-fashioned.

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A crop of the box cover for Runebound, with a dragon's wing behind the logo for the game

Rune Bound: Exploring the Realms of Terrinoth

By Orrin Grey • December 11th, 2023

Terrinoth lacks any attempt at gritty realism, reaching instead for the classic familiarity of a video game version of your standard high fantasy.

The Ancestral Trail

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 23rd, 2023

Can you imagine waiting a fortnight for anything in this day and age? I can’t!

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