April 19, 2025

Reviews And Commentary On Boardgames

We don’t always take the time to write up reviews of games that are this obviously bad, but they’re out there. We enthusiastically recommend that you add these games to your to-play list. If we call a game Amazing, that means something about it seriously impressed us, whether it’s an inspired new idea or an exceptional take on an old one. We expect to look back at it as one of the highlights of its time and genre.

Cryptocurrencies apart from being designed to solve a couple of issues we had with the traditional financial system like security, transparency, and efficiency, took a different turn and ended up in online mini games. While her end goal may be considerably smaller in scope than, say, blowing up a Death Star, the environments Kay’s entertaining saga unfolds in are surprisingly large. To be clear, this isn’t No Man’s Skywalker or even Starfield Wars, so you don’t have the freedom to circle each planet and land wherever you choose. Of course, given that its rollicking, space western story takes place in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi – the height of Imperial power – the actual Han Solo is literally on ice for the duration of Outlaws. Instead, we step into the battered space boots of Kay Vass, a cunning thief raised amidst the hives of scum and villainy in the gambling capital of Canto Bight. She’s quickly shown to be handy with a hairpin lockpick and has an insatiable appetite for five-finger discounts, though like Dash Rendar and pre-Jedi Kyle Katarn before her, she never really steps out of Han’s shadow and becomes more than a stand-in smuggler with a heart of gold.

Through its dramatic rise from the ashes of its original disastrous launch and subsequent expansions, FFXIV has slowly morphed from a relatively generic good-versus-evil plot into a sprawling, fanstastical political thriller. The latest expansion, Dawntrail, may have had some growing pains as it established a compelling new era, but in its best moments it lives up to what has made this MMORPG so special for all these years. While the sequel, Doom Eternal, arguably improved on the combat by making it even more technical, for us nothing beats the relative purity and simplicity of the satisfying slug-fests of Doom. Undertale is a delightfully inventive exercise in subverting expectations.

The game will take us to areas affected by a volcanic eruption, where we will rescue the surviving people, while finding many secrets. There are also several ambitious AA games on the horizon and a highly awaited RTS. The day has finally come when we can enjoy the release of Stalker 2.

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We rank every game in the Assassin’s Creed franchise—including this week’s new game Assassin’s Creed Shadows—from worst to best based on Metascore.

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A reasonable assumption, but no, in large part because Atomfall does so many things differently from Bethesda’s franchise (and many other games). Skill points are collectibles identified as Training Stimulants, and they’re almost never given as a reward for quest completion. Like everything else in Atomfall it’s all about following what interests you rather than grinding anything out – skills, crafting recipes, they’re all collectibles you have to uncover and then have to actually use to properly ‘learn’ them. If you find that resources are too rare or too plentiful, that combat is too harsh or too easy, or that map navigation is frustratingly obtuse or provides too much guidance, you can adjust all, some, or none of these elements as you please.

Between unsatisfying careers, shallow relationships and socialization mechanics, and my own Zoi being both boring while also harboring urges for entirely random things, I had very little fun actually living out my Zois’ lives. Once I had her settled into her new home–a shockingly luxurious two-bedroom apartment that left little for to work her way up to–I got to work on making the place her own. Though I couldn’t alter the structure of the apartment much, I quickly converted the flat from an expensive greige abode to something more colorful and expressive. I took time searching Pinterest for some cute art to display on her gallery wall, over the moon at not only being able to freely place frames all over my wall but being able to import my own images without having to turn to mods and custom content. And yet, I began to wonder what this functionality–and InZoi’s AI implementation to generate art for players on more high-end PCs–could have on developers.

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Kings and Queens involves students creating mini-tests ahead of time, then trying to stump one another as they sit in the front of the classroom on a “throne”. A slower-paced game but still fun and always one of my students’ favorites. This is the first year I have taught 5th grade, so I needed some ideas for that age group. I am going to try the “Race at the Board” to review for our first Science quiz.

The third in a series of underappreciated horror game gems is another haunting entry perfect for fans of the genre. As the ghost hunter Juliette, you explore a surreal and shifting alien-like landscape that adds an otherworldly spookiness to the prior two games’ more grounded horror. It largely retains and refines the mechanics of those earlier games, while also including their panache for incredible sound design that enhances the frights. Be sure to play with your headphones on, and the lights off.

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There are also a variety of things you might not have known could be interacted with, or need certain criteria met to be useful. The contents of its mysterious quarantine zone are also shaped by the best of British sci-fi and folk horror. There are the more overt examples, like the deadly flowers that bloom to intimidating heights in its woodland areas and look as though they’ve been replanted straight out of The Day of the Triffids, as well as the towering wooden statues that are obvious nods to The Wicker Man. But there are also less conspicuous allusions that had me second guessing my own senses. At one point I could have sworn that I saw the outline of the familiar blue phone booth belonging to a certain British doctor on a distant hilltop, only to find that when I climbed up for a closer look it had apparently shifted itself to another space or time.

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