COOL TITLES FOR NO CASH
COUNTER INTUITIVE
PICK & POKE your way through this gorgeous tabletop roguelite
by Tom Sykes
There are four varied characters to play as. Nash here uses gold coins as health.
There’s just something about playing with tokens—chunky, circular tokens—that makes any game better, whether it’s Backgammon, Checkers or Connect 4. Pick & Poke, I’m pleased to report, is a game entirely about moving tokens around, as you drag them onto choices to make your way round a fantasy city. A singleplayer roguelite, it has the spirit of a tabletop RPG. It’s even played on an actual (OK, a virtual) tabletop.