Star Trek Timelines
For extremely long and grindy pay 2 win mobile games like this, I am playing until the inevitable brick wall. Most mobile games follow the same pattern: at the start, you’ll get lots of lootboxes thrown at you, you’ll get a bit of…
Star Trek: The Dice Game
This is a fan-made board game, but has really nice assets and is the most popular fan made Star Trek board game, other than Klin Zha. It heavily borrows elements from a solo board game I enjoyed a lot called Deep Space D-6.…
Star Trek: Panic
Star Trek Panic is a Star Trek version of a popular co-op tower defence board game called Castle Panic. In Castle Panic, you defend a castle while enemies stream from all around you, you have to use your cards to repair your castle…
Star Trek: Frontiers
Star Trek: Frontiers is a Star Trek version of the popular board game Mage Knight. It focuses on exploration of the Gamma Quadrant (although you fight a lot of Romulans and Borg). It’s suitable for up to four players, who pick between Picard…
Star Trek: Ascendancy
Star Trek Ascendancy is a game of exploration and conquest, although you can try to avoid the conquest if you want. Each player starts on their homeworld with a base that generates the three main resources (production, science and culture) as they explore…
Risk: Star Trek 50th Anniversary Edition
Like Monopoly, Risk is another game that has many, many different licensed versions. However, Risk changes things more than Monopoly does, and the most basic licensed versions have a different map, while some versions have their own rules and can even be completely…
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (3DS)
The main story mode of this one – Road to Rio – is absolutely awful. It’s all about grinding stats by playing “training” games as your Mii instead of the main sports. These training events aren’t even original, they’re taken from the 3DS…
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Wii U)
This game does away with the Wii Remote requirements, allowing you to use any controller. It seems like it should benefit the game, but all the controls are massively simplified and there’s no motion control whatsoever – even when it would be useful.…
Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice
The sequel to Shattered Crystal, this gives Sonic and team fire and ice powers. It’s mainly used for freezing and melting blocks of water, but I think the simplicity helps the game. However, the most significant change in this game is how the…
Big Big’s Fishing Adventure 3
Technically an April Fool’s fan game, this was made for charity and was Tweeted by the official Sonic Twitter account, so I’m counting it. Big Big’s Fishing Adventure 3 is about Big the Cat trying to make a video game. He’s spent most…