Daggerheart Review: Critical Role’s Own RPG System

Daggerheart Dice

Daggerheart, the original tabletop RPG from Critical Role’s publishing arm Darrington Press, released on May 20, 2025 and immediately sold out worldwide. Business Insider reported the launch sold out in under a week, with the company’s chief operating officer noting that a year’s expected supply lasted just two weeks. More than a year later, the … Read more

Wingspan Review: Still the Best Gateway Strategy Game?

Wingspan came out in 2019. It won the Kennerspiel des Jahres — the German award for complex hobby games — that year, sold 200,000 copies within twelve months, and spent the next several years being the game people pointed to when they wanted to explain what modern board gaming actually looks like to someone who … Read more

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Review: The RPG Nobody Saw Coming

Clair Obscur Screenshot

Sandfall Interactive is a French studio that had never released a game before April 24, 2025. Their internal target for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was a Metacritic score around 80. They would have been happy with that, they said. The game ended up at 92 on Metacritic with a user score of 9.5 across over … Read more

Resident Evil Requiem Review: The Best of Both Worlds, With a Catch

scene from Resident Evil

Resident Evil has spent three decades arguing with itself about what it wants to be. Survival horror or action game? Slow resource management or cinematic spectacle? Resident Evil Requiem, the ninth mainline entry in Capcom’s flagship series, released February 27 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, and PC, is the most direct attempt yet … Read more