BangClickReload Header featuring pixelated 8-bit videogame characters BangClickReload mobile header featuring pixelated 8-bit videogame characters

We’re 1 Today!

BcR logo with white and red pixelated text on a black background.
By BangClickReload
June 28, 2011

Blimey. An entire year of gaming-related ramblings and ravings, the odd review, and those three rants… It’s been such a fun year, we’ve decided to carry on a while longer and see what happens. If you’ve ever read our words, cheers. If this is your first visit, well, sorry it had to be one of these annoying self-indulgent birthday messages. Just come back again tomorrow.

We’re surprised we’ve even managed to keep this little experiment going, after numerous other failed projects, this is the one that’s stuck. And there’s more to come. Much like a human one-year-old, we’re still finding our feet, and slowly but surely we’re tweaking the site: little things like the broken archives, About page, and some behind-the-scenes fixes to our custom themes (glorious WordPress makes this process quite easy, just time consuming!). And who knows, maybe we’ll find some new and awesome reason for you to keep coming back. I’m thinking more Minecraft posts…

Anyway, I think that’ll do. So again, thanks for reading our little nerdy blog. Hopefully we’ll see you next year. Here’s a Celebratory Victory Pug.

Celebratory Victory Pug.

Latest Articles

Dome Keeper - Official Artwork Poster

Dome Keeper – Multiplayer Update

Matt Clarke

April 15, 2026

Dome Keeper is an excellent little spin on the tower defense game, in which you play the role of a jetpacking miner defending his base from swarms of aliens, whilst searching for a hidden relic buried somewhere beneath him. And now, with this huge free update, you can play it with friends.

Cloudpunk

Cloudpunk – Review

Matt Clarke

March 28, 2026

I want to talk about Cloudpunk, a game where you get to be a flying-car delivery driver in a futuristic cyberpunk city. Its world is an incredible achievement of environmental design, and while the gameplay itself may be basic, the city of Nivalis is a thing of beauty to behold. Nivalis is built out of hundreds of hand-modelled cuboid buildings; there’s nothing procedural about it. Apparently it took 3 years for the devs to design the city, and it really shows.

Cast n Chill, a pixel art style fishing game featuring a small fishing boat, dog companion and a beautiful background of autumnal mountain trees and a lake with a waterfall.

Coffee Break – Cast n Chill

Matt Clarke

March 19, 2026

I do love me some quality pixel art, and it doesn’t get much better than this. Cast n Chill is a cozy side-scrolling fishing game by small indie dev team Wombat Brawler, with absolutely gorgeous visuals. It’s simple to play, and you you can dip in and out of it at your leisure, making it a fine addition to our collection of coffee break games.

Want more?

Here's 3 random other things to check out:

Gaming Memories – Fighter Ace

Matt Clarke

April 11, 2017

Fighter Ace was a free-to-play Second World War dogfighting game. You just logged in, spawned in a big sky with about 20 or 30 other people and shot the shit out of each other. It taught me that the Japanese Zero was one of the greatest fighter planes of WW2. Sure, it was lightly armoured and went down easily with just a few direct hits, but it was so manoeuvrable, so fast and agile that it could take on pretty much any other plane and come out on top.

Cult of the Lamb screenshot of three of the evil bosses.

Review – Cult of the Lamb

Matt Clarke

March 8, 2026

I recently played through Cult of the Lamb, a satirical take on the concept of running a demonic cult. It turns horrific things like sacrificial rituals, cannibalism and straight up gaslighting abuse into hilarious amusements by filtering everything through its cartoonish lens. You are a sheep, after all, and all your followers are sycophantic anthropomorphic […]

New Design Announcement

Matt Clarke

March 8, 2026

Hello, world! This post marks the moment in time and space when BangClickReload got a little redesign and was dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Every post before this point is rather old and might not look right, and unless I decide to go through them all to fix them, they’re going to […]

Copyright © 2010 - 2026

Site designed and hosted by Tekamutt Media