Game Reviews & Recommendations
English editions only of Mythveil’s reviews and game recommendations.
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7 Best RPG Systems for Horror and Lasting Dread
Compare the best RPG systems for horror, from cosmic dread to intimate tragedy, and choose rules that give fear, consequence and memory each real weight.
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Marvel’s Wolverine Review — Memory, Violence and the Man Who Cannot Stay Dead
Insomniac gives Logan a new history and familiar claws. Mythveil reviews the combat, story, continuity, Marvel TTRPG context and what remains after the wounds close.
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Ars Magica Definitive Edition Review — How Medieval Is Its Magic?
Nearly forty years of Ars Magica, the Tremere, the Order of Hermes, Mage and the real occult Middle Ages — reviewed through history, design and Mythic Europe.
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CONTROL RESONANT — When the Bureaucracy Escapes the Building
CONTROL Resonant takes the supernatural institution at the heart of Control and asks what happens when its problems can no longer be contained inside one impossible building.
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METRO 2039 & FALLOUT The Bombs Destroy the World. Not Its Ideas.
“So,” Chibi said, looking at the ruins, “the world ended.” “Correct,” Stacy said. “And then people built another one.” “Eventually.” Chibi considered this. “And immediately started arguing about…
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METRO 2039 & FALLOUT The Bombs Destroy the World. Not Its Ideas.
“So,” Chibi said, looking at the ruins, “the world ended.” “Correct,” Stacy said. “And then people built another one.” “Eventually.” Chibi considered this. “And immediately started arguing about…
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Silent Hill: Townfall — When a Place Remembers
Screen Burn has taken Silent Hill to a Scottish island. What makes St Amelia frightening is not simply what lives in the fog, but what the town refuses…
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Daggerheart Hope & Fear Review: When an Expansion Changes What the Game Can Be
A good RPG expansion gives you more things. More classes. More monsters. More equipment. More pages. Daggerheart: Hope & Fear certainly does that. The 196-page hardcover contains four…