Card Games

Feeding shortbread to a Spriggan in Hungry Horrors.

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Hungry Horrors is a culinary deck builder where you feed pickled eggs to folkloric beasts

Based on British and Irish mythology

April 17, 2025Nic Reuben

28 comments

A figure sits in a summoning circle with a five-sided star and candles burning, with a sinister shadow appearing behind them.

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Dragon Age writer teases a new arcane deckbuilder from his Stray Gods studio

A game called Malys, hoooo yeahhhh

April 3, 2025Brendan Caldwell

1 comment

An armoured shield knight faces a crystalline beast aboard the train, as the player holds five cards in hand.

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Monster Train 2 rolls up with a release date

The last one was rail-y good

April 2, 2025Brendan Caldwell

8 comments

A medieval-style illustration of a seated woman being treated for sickness using Tarot-style cards. The scene is full of bright and mildly revolting colours.

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Purge your village of the Devil using Tarot cards in this festively rancid strategy game

M.D.eckbuilder

March 31, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

6 comments

A creepy-looking old woman is eating something from a bowl, with dialogue above her reading: "You curious little guy" in a screenshot from Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs

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Carimara is a wonderfully grubby looking game about talking to Norman-folklore inspired creeps and exercising ghosts with cards

Fairytales as they should be

March 22, 2025Oisin Kuhnke

7 comments

Artwork from Into The Breach and a large alien head from XCOM 2

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The 50 best strategy games to play on PC

From tiny tactics to grand campaigns

March 12, 2025Graham Smith

205 comments

Perfectly legitimate poker in a Balatro screenshot.

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Localthunk quells AI art civil war started by Balatro erotica subreddit mod

Jimbo's Big Unnaturals

March 12, 2025Nic Reuben

37 comments

A montage of The Horror at Highrook, Deliver At All Costs, and DoubleWe screenshots with Gamer Network's Wishlisted mascot in the corner.

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Our favourite demos from Steam Next Fest Winter 2025

Until next time

March 3, 2025RPS

49 comments

Alma reaches towards the camera while yelling.

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Look, 4 new games that are NOT Monster Hunter Wilds

Put down that giant sword

Feb. 28, 2025Brendan Caldwell

25 comments

Key art for As We Descend, showing a mechanical woman surrounded by armoured warriors looking over a city domed with a forcefield

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As We Descend burrows beneath the other Frostpunk-likes with ornate card tactics and writing

Downtown

Feb. 28, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

4 comments

A cracked out blob stares longingly at Castle V Castle.

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Castle V Castle is a snappy minimalist card game with robots, witches, and sentient doomer signage

Also hard hats

Feb. 26, 2025Nic Reuben

5 comments

High-scoring cards popping off in a Balatro screenshot.

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After junking Balatro's 18 rating, PEGI will develop "a more granular" rating system for gambling themes

Luck Be A Landlord also no longer 18-rated

Feb. 25, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

18 comments

Guide

MTG Arena codes

How to redeem MTGA codes.

Feb. 21, 2025Amelia Zollner

A screenshot from The Horror At Highrook, showing a blueprint-style view of a house layout with cards representing characters and items, plus some swirly paranormal effects. In the foreground, a spectral entity is speaking about a missing child.

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The Horror At Highrook demo is a dangerously enticing marriage of Darkest Dungeon and Cluedo

J'accuse the Plague Doctor in the Chapel with the bottle of reagent

Feb. 13, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

11 comments

Fighting a green goblin guy with a Dyson Sphere in Diceomancer.

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Diceomancer review

A spicy Spirelike that lets you reroll any number on your screen

Feb. 7, 2025Matt Cox

12 comments

The player navigates the blue walls of Tiny Heist as a small yellow thief. One of the white guardbots is shouting "Error! Intruder detected!"

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Creator of Dicey Dungeons, VVVVVV and Super Hexagon launches a big collection of his shorter games

Terry's Other Games

Feb. 4, 2025Brendan Caldwell

11 comments

A spread of cards representing rats, trees and other horrible things from card game Roots Devour

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Roots Devour's demo harbours the seeds of a brilliant horror card RPG

Make like a tree, and bleed

Feb. 4, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

8 comments

Key art for superhero card battler Marvel Snap

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Marvel Snap has been "banned" in the USA alongside TikTok, but devs insist it'll be back online soon

Card battler affected by US divest-or-ban policy towards Chinese parent company

Jan. 20, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

29 comments

An angled elevated depiction of a woman fighting monsters on a grid, with large fungal objects nearby and cards lined up along the bottom of the screen. It's a screenshot from Death Howl.

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11-bit's latest curiosity Death Howl is a sorrowing open world deckbuilder set in the Nordic Stone Ages

From developers The Outer Zone

Jan. 17, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

16 comments

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IGF 2025 nominees show what a wild and vibrant place indie gaming is

There are several surprise nominations and absences this year

Jan. 16, 2025Graham Smith

21 comments

Screenshots of Factorio: Space Age, Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, Balatro, and Mouthwashing.

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Our 24 favourite games of 2024

In non-calendar form

Jan. 13, 2025Graham Smith

47 comments

Subnautica 2, Mushroom Musume, Sid Meier's Civilization VII and Monster Hunter: Wilds screenshots.

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Our 50 most anticipated PC games of 2025

Here's what we're excited about in what looks like a big year

Jan. 8, 2025Graham Smith

119 comments

A side-by-side comparison screen for a mod that gives all the Joker cards in Balatro boobs, including Joker cards that feature inanimate objects, like the walkie talkie depicted here

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Balatro mod Jimbo's Big Naturals is a lot funnier and safer for work than it sounds

One pair

Jan. 7, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

10 comments

A screenshot of play from Valve's card game Artifact.

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Artifact saw a mysterious player count jump over new year, six years after Valve’s trading card game died off

Exhumed?

Jan. 6, 2025Nic Reuben

27 comments

Geralt holds a card in front of him as Ciri faces him across a table in a candlelit inn.

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Gwent returns in The Witcher 4, according to CD Projekt's heavy hints

Throw a card to your Witcher

Dec. 17, 2024Brendan Caldwell

8 comments