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1 week ago | 
bigbossbattle.com | Rob Covell
Share Although it loses steam after a while, Soulslinger is a fun rogue-like shooter with a great sense of place. Another rogue-like it may be, but Soulslinger does a lot to try and make itself stand out from the admittedly pretty packed crowd.
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2 weeks ago | 
bigbossbattle.com | Rob Covell
Share In its best moments, Snowsquall Grip is engaging and satisfying to play through. It’s a shame that one of its main mechanics lets it down. Low-poly horror games are pretty common at this point. That’s not a bad thing, as throwbacks to the original PlayStation era of scary games are often quite fun.
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2 weeks ago | 
bigbossbattle.com | Rob Covell
Share Moving Houses starts out as a nice little game about packing up a house but soon becomes something a little spookier. Before I get into the actual review of Moving Houses, I’d like to point out that this is a subversive horror game.
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3 weeks ago | 
bigbossbattle.com | Rob Covell
Share It may want to be a new version of Bioshock and Dead Space, but Chasmal Fear misses the mark. I was quite hopeful for Chasmal Fear when I first loaded it up. Showing inspiration from Bioshock’s underwater world and Dead Space’s cosmic horror mutations, it had the potential to be a fun low budget romp.
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3 weeks ago | 
bigbossbattle.com | Rob Covell
Share Although it plays more like a visual novel than the point & click escape room it purports to be, Centrum has a fascinating story if you can get through the early stages. Centum is one of the harder games that I’ve needed to review.
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1 month ago | 
bigbossbattle.com | Rob Covell
Share If you loved Monster Train as much as I did, Monster Train 2 is more of that. No bad thing if you ask me. There are so many roguelike deckbuilders around these days. Ever since the success of the hugely enjoyable Slay the Spire, swathes of imitators have come along with their own twists on the formula, absolutely flooding the market.
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1 month ago | 
bigbossbattle.com | Rob Covell
Share By removing the linearity of its predecessor, Spirit of the North 2 is both better and worse than the previous game. I quite liked Spirit of the North. It wasn’t amazing, but it was a solid adventure game about a spirit fox trying to cleanse a land of an evil force.
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1 month ago | 
bigbossbattle.com | Rob Covell
Share Whilst the theme is certainly fun, Spreadcheat is really more maths puzzle than it is spreadsheet puzzle. As a maths teacher, I tend to spend a fair bit of time tinkering with Microsoft Excel. Got to crunch those numbers! I’m no expert by any stretch, but there are some neat things you can do with data using those spreadsheets.
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1 month ago | 
bigbossbattle.com | Rob Covell
Share Taking leaves from the books of Overcooked and Moving Out, CarGo! provides fun, if simpler, chaotic co-op action. Co-op rage games are fun so long as your group can survive the frustration of one person’s mistake causing a catastrophic balls up for everyone else.
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1 month ago | 
bigbossbattle.com | Rob Covell
Share If you have youngsters that want to play Slay the Spire but aren’t quite ready, Nif Nif would be a lovely alternative. My children love Monster Train. They have no idea how to play it with any real skill, but they enjoy watching it being played.
