Time to take a breather with a laid back reviews episode, so let’s dive in!

Pernell Vaughan reviews Surviving Mars, a city building sim set on the red planet from Haemimont Games & Paradox Interactive. DarkMika writes in a review of episode 1 of The Council, an episodic tale of intrigue and murder from Big Bad Wolf & Focus Home Interactive. Pernell also checks out Damascus Gear: Operation Osaka HD, a mech based hack and slash action RPG from APLUS Games & Arc System Works. Zak Lyons covers Tesla vs. Lovecraft, an intense top down twin stick shooter of electricity and Lovecraftian horrors from 10tons.

Chris Taylor reviews Way of the Passive Fist, a beat em up brawler about minimal beating and brawling and more patience from Household Games. Chris also checks out Kite, a crazy retro twin stick shooter from Lab Cat Games. Chris then covers Enchanting Mahjong Match, a two line solitaire Mahjong title sure to test your skills from Orgesta & D3Publisher. Lastly, Chris checks out BINGO for Nintendo Switch, which is Bingo for the Nintendo Switch from SIMS & Starsign.

Jacob Garner drops by to cover FlatFatCat, a mix of puzzle game matching and billiards style physics from Rainware as well as charming lawnmowing mobile title Mowy Lawn from PlayStack. Jacob then reviews Assault Gunners: HD Edition, a mech battle to save the Mars Colonies from SHADE Inc & Marvelous before giving his brief first impressions of the Gamevice iOS controller from Gamevice!

The episode ends with three tracks from our friend Jordan “bLiNd” Aguirre and his brand new chill out album Elevation Isolation!

bLiNd – Astral
bLiNd – Elevation Isolation
bLiNd – Reflections

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