Tom Ravencroft
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Battlestar Galactica feels like an odd choice for a licensed tie-in game when the original series ended in 1980 and the rebooted series ended in 2010, but it also kinda…hangs around. The web series ran on SciFi’s website and then reappeared on Machinima (remember Machinima?) in 2012. There was a...
I am known for my position that Disco Elysium is the best game ever, and I’m not sure if Esoteric Ebb is going to dethrone it, but it’s definitely going on the medal podium. This is Disco Elysium by way of Planescape: Torment, but with the humor of Discworld, a...
It is a pleasure to encounter games that make me remember my youth, and Crisol: Theater of Idols is the kind of game that makes me fondly remember the 90s. In a world of constantly-launching and failing live service games, forced multiplayer, battle passes, and other ways to milk the...
Rome is well-trod ground for games, but most of them are more like the HBO series Rome, focused on violence and chaos. You’ve got your Total Wars and your games about gladiators and your games about the myths and violence of Rome…but maybe what really gets your pulse racing is…aqueducts…city...
Some games try to be fun and entertaining interactive experiences and some try to tell engaging and gripping stories, and some are desperately trying to be movies. But sometimes they manage to catch a vibe. You kids with your broccoli hair and your iPads might not remember the desolate feeling...
Some games try to be fun and entertaining interactive experiences and some try to tell engaging and gripping stories, and some are desperately trying to be movies. But sometimes they manage to catch a vibe. You kids with your broccoli hair and your iPads might not remember the desolate feeling...
If walking simulator is a genre, Static Dread: The Lighthouse is a hearing about things simulator. In the wake of a worldwide cataclysm that disabled GPS and other forms of fancy navigation, you have left your wife and daughter to man a decrepit old lighthouse and ensure ships get to...
Sometimes, games sound deranged when you explain them, but when they come together so elegantly in gameplay, it’s almost impossible to sound sane about them, especially when they’re so good you want to rave like a lunatic. To start from the beginning, you have a train full of dragons and demons and...
When last we saw Drop Duchy, I was intrigued by the prospect of Tetris but it was also a light strategy game with building, production, military units, and combat. The full version is here not and it is definitely that, a combination of Tetris and a tile-based board game with...
To avoid constantly repeating myself, let’s point at my two previews to cover the basics, then we can just jump right in with “What is the full, released game like?” It’s still retrofuture 1949, the Nazis still won, but you and your resistance movement are still fighting them with giant...
Ron Swanson once said, “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” Merchants of Rosewall wants to be a cozy store simulator. It wants to be a cozy small town with a dark mystery to unravel game. It tries to be both of those things and does neither of them well....
If there’s one thing I love, it’s managing a scurvy crew. Football Manager, for example, is one of my favorite series, and nobody has more scurvy than a bunch of English soccer players except, of course, pirates. Rogue Waters presents the familiar roguelike formula of semi-random gameplay with pirate flavored...
