Posts By Adam

When The OP sent over Fountains, it wasn’t actually the game in the box I was most excited about: that was Tea Witches. But when speaking with the media representative for The OP, they assured me that Fountains was a game tile laying fans were going to love because it takes traditional tile laying and makes it…vertical? While I wasn’t sure what was meant by that, I do love a solid tile laying game. So while Tea Witches was calling…

I’ve been a Nintendo fan for as long as I can remember, and being a fan of Nintendo means you probably gravitate towards specific games. For me, that’s anything Mario related. While I’m less of a fan of the Mario 2D entries, if a Mario game gets released there is a 99.9% chance that I’m going to play it. Reviewing games for the past decade has helped, but even if I didn’t, they would almost all be day one purchases…

Ink was definitely a frustrating game to learn as I don’t feel the rulebook was as good as it could be, but once we had our first game under our belts, the simplicity of the experience was really attractive. Simplicity doesn’t mean boring, though, and there is a good amount of strategy here to sink your teeth into. Is Ink a game that your group might attach to? Let’s take a look! In Ink, players will have 24 ink bottles…

I’ve heard nothing but good things about Saltfjord and it is one of my most anticipated games of 2025. I’ve also heard the game lacks a nice and cohesive look, and after spending about an hour punching tiles and sorting pieces, I agree with that sentiment very much. While the components are top notch all around, the overall aesthetic of the game is very…dark? I don’t want to harp on the look of the game too much, only because I’ve…

Assassin’s Creed Shadows was one of our favourite Assassin’s Creed titles in the modern console era, and for good reason – traveling across Japan was a blast, and the two character story arch was really fun to play out. Choosing when to use each of the two characters was better than I thought it would be, and while I did spend a lot of my time with just one, they both had their strengths for certain situations. All of this…

Deck building and cooperative games are two of my favourite things, and when IV Studios announced that they were combining the two into their new Kickstarter campaign, Honor’s End, I was instantly intrigued. IV Studios was GamesReviews.com Studio of the Year in 2024, and are continuing their trend of releasing fantastic games with big hits like Brink and Tend falling into consumers laps this year. There is still 4 days to back Honor’s End, so ...

Real Time Strategy and Tycoon games generally don’t perform favorably on consoles because they lack the key ingredient these games really do need: mouse support. Even though SEGA has done a great job handling controls for the Two Point County games, there is still no comparing controller and a mouse when it comes to this style game. That’s all changing with the launch of Two Point Museum on Nintendo Switch 2, at least I thought it was. In a recent…

While Splendor Kids does break one of my big no-no’s when it comes to production, I can’t help but be impressed with what Space Cowboys have done with this kid-friendly title. Far too often, companies think that since a game is for kids, the quality of the product can be lesser; that is never, and should never, be the case. Splendor Kids is almost the perfect production, regardless of the audience for the game. Let’s take a look at what…

A few years ago we had the pleasure of reviewing a fantastic kids game called The Quest Kids. The base game, along with the expansions, took kids gaming to the next level, and provided something that was not only fun for the young ones in our house, but for the adults as well. Treasure Falls Games is back with another fantastic kids experience, this time with trains! Is Super Trains as good as we think it should be based on…

I’ve written numerous times about my love for gaming on the go. You can read my most recent article about Star Wars Outlaws to learn more about my philosophy. I can take worse graphics and worse performance, but not down right terrible. And frankly, ARK: Survival Evolved on Nintendo Switch was a hot mess from day one. Over the course of the games lifespan on the original Nintendo Switch, it did slowly get better. But the development team was hindered…

There were a few reasons why I wanted to review Plants vs Zombies Replanted on Nintendo Switch 2, and it all came down to control options. I think everyone is aware that these games are best played on a mobile device or a tablet, so to bring them to console is a bit of a weird play from EA. That said, regardless of which control scheme I was using in Replanted, I was having a blast – the design team…

When I first saw Ink through a local board game store email flyer, I was pretty intrigued. My wife absolutely loves a tile laying game, and also enjoys puzzle games as well – this seemed to be a combination of the two. What drew me in was the game’s components, specifically the little plastic ink bottles in each player colour. It takes more than shinny things to make me happy, though, but they sure don’t hurt! I cannot stand when…

Rebirth was a game I wasn’t initially interested in when I first saw it available on crowdfunding platforms. The idea seemed easy enough to follow, but I questioned how fun the overall gameplay would feel. I honestly thought there was going to be too much luck in the tiles you selected each round, and while that can be the case from time-to-time, the overall game has a lot less luck than I expected. In Rebirth, players will be placing tiles…

The Unlock! series is one of our favourite escape room style games to play at home with friends and family. Over the years, we have reviewed many of these boxes, our personal favourite being the Star Wars themed release. When Unlock! Kids was first released, we were quite excited to take this experience and play it with our 10 year old at the time. Still, it was a bit complicated for our younger son who was about 4 years old.…

Over the weekend, my family and I were lucky enough to attend the Nintendo of Canada holiday party to celebrate some of the greatest games already available, and those yet to be released. During our 3 hours at the event we got to enjoy some amazing treats and drinks, colour our own Nintendo themed buttons, fill out a bingo-like card, and of course play a ton of games! A few of the games we’ve had the chance to play and…