Paul Dean
Games Reviews
'UBOAT' Recasts the Sub Sim as a Roguelike Management Game
Das Mannschaft.
Paul Dean
11.5.21
Games Reviews
'Mini Motorways' Is a Beautiful Game About the Futility of Roadbuilding
Become an architect of an infrastructure, and your own hubris.
Paul Dean
8.5.21
Games Features
Lead a Medieval Village Where All the Workers and Warriors are Dice
'Dice Legacy' draws from worker placement games, city builders, roguelikes, and even blockchain engineering to invent a new kind of strategy game.
Paul Dean
7.23.21
Games News
'Nox Archaist' Is the Newest RPG for the Apple II
More than just a retro homage, the game nevertheless features Steve Wozniak and Richard Garriot.
Paul Dean
12.21.20
Games Features
How to Make a Good Fake Video Game
How one television show got video games right after so many get them wrong.
Paul Dean
12.3.20
Games Features
Catan at 25: Checking in on a Once-Revolutionary Board Game
How 'Settlers of Catan' introduced the world to a different kind of family game.
Paul Dean
6.11.20
Games Features
Why a 26-Year-Old Strategy Classic Just Received Its First DLC
How a modder's obsessive work to improve a flawed game was finally canonized.
Paul Dean
3.27.20