Diceless combat, an invincible super unit, and a solitaire variant that’s very different from the two-player alternative… Archie’s War: The Battle for Guadalcanal, a fast-playing 2023 board game from Worthington Games has three pretty striking features. Oddly, the £7 PC…
Old Town Roads, the Bus Bound add-on released last week, won’t help repair Saber Interactive’s damaged reputation. Your six quid buys a remarkably bland minibus, and a rural map extension made by people (?) who’ve seemingly never set foot outside…
I reconnoitred the imminent* Steel Wolverines: Modern Armored Combat demo yesterday and liked 95% of what I found. TboneWargames’ debut release might hexagonalise a fictional, near-future clash between NATO and Russia, but there’s nothing imaginary about the conflict that its…
Corner Confessions is for sharing guilty gaming secrets. Secrets like… I yearn for the days when graphics options screens consisted of nothing but a resolution selection, and a detail slider with three choices: low, medium, and high.
Dagger Directive is retro done right. I came to this conclusion weeks ago, but last night’s gripping airfield infiltration mission underscored it. Between me and my goal – a Prighozin-type mercenary leader and a batch of nicked Novichok – were…
Corner Confessions is for sharing guilty gaming secrets. The series will, I promise, contain the odd bombshell, but I’m going to kick it off with a thunderflash: Although I’ve been playing truck sims for nigh-on twenty years I’m still pretty…
Derelict factory environment? Check. Container-cluttered port? Check. ‘Woodpecker’ over-the-horizon-radar array? Check. Three of Early Access Acrodrift’s half-dozen drone playgrounds are a little hackneyed. Fortunately, a couple of the others are unforgettable.
I wish my two current squeezes, Dagger Directive and Infinite Orienteering: The Hiker’s Path, could get together and produce a kid. As gratifying as it is to round a boulder or barge into a clearing and find the orange-and-white control…
U is for Undeserved neglect. Sometimes I’m so busy searching out the obscure and quirky, I fail to give the megafauna of the sim and wargame fields the attention it deserves. SCS Software, the studio that almost singlehandedly created the…
La Forge du Code doesn’t seem to have profited greatly from a week-long advertising stint on the Corner (After an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign the French dev behind the unusually foggy Kriegsspiel ~ 7 Years’ War is now considering his options).…
A unique sub-themed commenter tile to the Cornerite who has explored the most real, intact submarines (List the visited vessels in a comment, please). I’m ashamed to admit I’ve only ever roamed the compartments of one actual sub – HMS…
I’ve enjoyed Arcane Alpacas’ £13 (until Aug 27) homage to Delta Force from the outset, but I’m enjoying it even more since leaving Alaska. The venues in the Nukes in the North campaign were often gloomy and grassy, making spotting…