Review Rally

First, DIY Games has a review of 50 Castles, which involves chickens among other things.

Second, Game Tunnel has both their May Round-Up and a review of Darwinia available:

As hard as it is to describe this game, I can see five to 10 years from now people reminiscing about playing Darwinia much like people today talk about playing Amiga games and the original Doom.