Reviews & Previews of Indie and Kickstarted Games
“Why did it have to be snakes?” And, even worse, why did it have to be a basket full of cobras! Today, Fairway takes a look at the new Kickstarter game, Cobras, by Suzanne Kabrt-Zinsli and Christopher Zinsli. See if he can charm this quick trick taking game or if he gets bit. It’s live on Kickstarter, right now!
Fairway definitely has something for games with rainbows. Red7 is no different, except that this rainbow really knows how to mess with your hand. See if Fairway manages to find the pot of gold at this end of this rainbow-themed game.
It’s the Italian renaissance. Fairway is a master of a great house of Florence and commissioning great works of art and architecture and hiring great artists of the time. You guessed it, it’s not reality. It’s time for Fairway’s review of Florenza: The Card Game.
Pew! Pew! Pew! Boom! With a pocket full of tokens, Fairway takes over the joystick and previews the upcoming dice-rolling, micro game, Starcade by designer Derak Morrell. It’s coming to Kickstarter next week.
“Hey, that’s not nice. No pushing.” “But that’s the game!” “Fine. Let me toss you and see how much you like it.” “Wee!” Today, Fairway picks up Tiny Swords: Tactics a tile placement, combat game with adorable pixel art and plenty of pushing, shoving, and tossing fun.
The silly cogtraption is broken again. And there’s only a few qualified cogineers capable of repairing it. In today’s review, Fairway takes on that role in this review of COGZ. See if he’s good enough to reCOGnize the broken cognections or if the machine will remain broken.
“Can you hear me now?” “Can you hear me now?” Today, Fairway picks up an abstract strategy game that the Verizon guy can love, Nodes. See if Fairway can find a signal in the middle of a wide open space or whether his opponent’s communication systems were better.
In this review, Fairway plays with fire when he travels to Ambyria in search of the mysterious ember stones. Find out whether Ambyria: Shroud of the Shadow Demon is too hot to touch or just cool enough to play a bunch of times. The first expansion for Ambyria is hitting Kickstarter toward the end of this year.
For fans of the original The Captain is Dead, it should come as no surprise that the Captain is still dead. Having jumped to warp and survived drifting through an asteroid belt, those aliens are hopping mad. This time they’re not just boarding the ship in little groups. They’ve taken over the shipped, trapped us in the infirmary and shut us out of our own computer systems. See if Fairway survives in this preview of The Captain is Dead: Episode 3, Lockdown.
Let’s jump into the future: corporations now control the world. But not everyone is happy about it. Fairway joins a group of hacktivists in their attempt to break into Monolith corporation’s servers and prevent the complete and total takeover of the world. See whether Fairway is able to exploit his way in or whether the corporation’s network administrator successfully defends the status quo as he previews The Hackers Guild, coming soon to Kickstarter.