It's been a hot second since I last did a review, and originally I was working my way through the hyper-simulationist cowboy game Aces and Eights. Unfortunately, despite having a lot of design elements I really liked A&8 is pretty much terminally boring, so even though I've already read through all the rules I've decided to spare my readers the fate of having to hear about how many inches of tin a bullet has to pass through in order to lose 1 point of attack damage. There are some nice pictures of horsies, though. I love a good horse. I also fucking love western shit so who knows, maybe I'll end up reviewing the book at some point after all. Anyway, I decided to do a sort of double-feature for this one: they're both games about life in 19th century Britain and and they're both by Storybrewers Roleplaying, an indie studio out of Australia (I think). However, that's pretty much where the similarities end: in setting, tone, and design philosophy, these ...