Reiver puts Knave's rules in a browser and a Memorial on its title screen
Simian Spark's turn-based dark-fantasy CRPG prints every dice roll, counts your torches and keeps a roll of the dead.
By Rhodri Vaughan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
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The title screen of Reiver has a menu option called Memorial, sitting between The Company and Options, and that one word tells you more about the game than the logo does. Simian Spark's dark-fantasy CRPG is built on the rules of Knave First Edition, the tabletop game by Ben Milton, and it is the sort of party RPG where people you hire can be injured or killed and new ones recruited to fill the gap. There is a roll of the dead on the front menu. Plan accordingly. A moonlit menu and a party sheet That title screen is properly handsome pixel art: a gothic castle on a cliff with waterfalls spil...