Category: review
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Quick Review: Umbra
What is it? A solo mapping game that sees you create a new colony on a remote planet. Building the colony one room at a time you will explore the strange new world and survive relentless attacks as you attempt to unearth the fabled Reapers Gambit. Who is it by? Anna Blackwell, a Glasgow based…
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Review: Flare Audio Calmer earbuds
Looking back it’s quite easy to see how poorly I have dealt with auditory processing throughout my life, whether it be my tendancy to hyperfocus on particular sources or general dislike of crowds. At one extreme there are times where if I’m focused on the audio from a TV I won’t process the words of…
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Quick Review: The Wretched
Who is it by? Chris Bisette of Loot the Room What’s it about? Dying alone in space. Heavily inspired by Alien and similar horror movies The Wretched positions you as the lone survivor of an attack by an alien entity you have, temporarily, managed to blast into space. With the clock ticking can you survive…
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Quick Review: Sonja & Conan vs the Ninja’s
What is it? A storytelling game of action and adventure that flips the traditional one GM, many PCs to one PC, many GMs. The multiple GMs collaboratively build scenes and frame the actions of the antagonists but aren’t allowed to confer with one another, instead, they must rely on building on details others have already…
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Quick Review: Paris Gondo – The Life Saving Magic of Inventorying
What is it: A story game about getting to the end of your adventures and having to decide the age-old question: does the loot I have acquired spark joy? Who is it by: Kalum of the Rolistes podcast (the game also has its own twitter account) What’s it about? Paris Gondo tongue in cheek take…
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Review: Chiron’s Doom by Nick Bate
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of Chiron’s Doom from the author in exchange for a copy of The Synth Convergence. There is a monument at the edge of civilisation, an enigmatic object known as Chiron’s Doom. Nobody knows what it does, or who made it, or why. It has defied all previous attempts at…
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Quick Review: Goblin Quest by Grant Howitt
Goblin Quest pitches itself as a game about slapstick violence and fatal ineptitude that will tell the story of your goblins greatest ever adventure (co-incidentally it is usually their only ever adventure before an untimely death). To say that it achieves this would be an understatement – Goblin Quest and its tales of comic incompetence…
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Quick Review: The Whisperer in Darkness podcast
I don’t listen to much in the way of fiction, either as podcasts or audio books. Primarily this is because I find it difficult to follow a continuing narrative unless I can give them 100% of my attention. I even struggle with Actual Plays if they have been highly edited or had sound effects added.…
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Review: Hell 4 Leather
Hell 4 Leather is an RPG of bloody revenge on Devil’s Night by Joe Prince and published by Box Ninja. To quote the website: An RPG of Bloody Revenge on Devil’s Night… You were the meanest most badass SOB around. Everything was tight – you rode with the Devil’s Dozen – toughest chapter going. No…
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