Oh, the joy of curling up on a winter’s afternoon to immerse oneself in a compelling crime novel or TV drama featuring victims and sleuths. The story will be set in a picturesque, seemingly safe place

The Terror Beneath is a sinister investigative RPG that transports players to an alternative 20th century Britain. The designer, Scott Malthouse, who is supported by Brainbug Design’s illustrations, i

Mythic Bastionland is the latest RPG from epic designer Chris McDowall. Chris represents a sort of chimeric force within the world of roleplaying design; he takes decades-established concepts and proc

Daniel Craig is back as detective Benoit Blanc in his third Knives Out film – a baffling locked-room mystery with an all-star cast. But, insists Craig…

Sometimes it can seem like roleplay games always come down to dungeons filled with dwarves and goblins hacking at each other with swords. Just studying t-shirts at a gaming con tends to imply a homoge

There’s been a glut of popular media featuring fight-to-the-death style scenarios in recent years. Alice in Borderland, The Hunger Games, Squid Game – stories of normal people being thrust into life-o