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Unicorn Overlord review: This gloriously-paced RPG is one of the year's best games, writes PETER HOSKIN


In Unicorn Overlord you move your little soldiers across little maps in order to outmaneuver and outpunch the evil forces of the inevitable dark lord

Just like those, you're the hero of some fantasy kingdom or other, moving your little soldiers across little maps in order to outmaneuver and outpunch the evil forces of the inevitable dark lord. One is the freedom it gives you to move around its open world — beautifully rendered in a half-modern, half-retro-pixellated style — and liberate its put-upon villagers howsoever you see fit. Before Hogwarts, there was Redwall: an abbey, not a school, populated by mice and badgers and other talking woodland creatures from the imagination of the author Brian Jacques.

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