If you are just getting into playing Dungeons and Dragons, or want to help someone along who is, the new Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit has everything they need to play the world’s greatest roleplaying game including dice, basic rules, a starter adventure module and even a DM screen.
The stealth thriller Church in the Darkness takes place in 1977. Your nephew Alex has joined a religious cult and moved with them to the South American jungle. It’s up to you to sneak into the commune to try and get him back.
Billy’s time wasting this week is on a digital collectible card game called Tap Cats: Epic Card Battle that looks good at first.
The deceptively simple FAR: Lone Sails game will have you lumbering across a beautiful but dead world in your behemoth of a vehicle, just trying to make it to the end of the road, wherever that may be for your little, lonely main character.
The Sanator: Scarlet Scarf game is a graphic novel with a dark story where you make decisions that affect the main character and the game’s world, sometimes in definitive ways. But it also has a unique mechanic that forces players to eventually see all possible paths, plus one hidden ending.
Billy’s time wasting this week has him donning the outfit of a hit man has he figures out how to kill his targets in Mr. Bullet.
The second official DLC for BATTLETECH, Urban Warfare brings fighting mechs into the big city, where everything is destructible and games of cat and mouse using the new ECM warfare modules can last for hours on end. It’s a brief but good addition to the core game.
We’ve been covering the Alex and Cassidy spy thriller book series for quite some time, so it was odd when book four was kind of a conclusionary tale. We find out why in book five, which takes place five years later, though with no less intrigue.
Fracter is one of the most interesting and artistic puzzle games that we have reviewed in a long time. Telling a haunting tale mostly only using light and shadow, the game challenges players to figure it out, and what is actually going on in its unique world.
This week Billy is checking out a promotional game for pop group Team Shachi called Rockman 20XX that features Mega Man as an old…man? Robot?
