Review: Planet
If you read my reviews regularly, you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of tile-laying→
Tagged: tile placement
Review: Outback
What do zoo animals do when they get fed up with zoo life? They hijack→
Review: The River
Exploration, resource exploitation, and settling new lands are common themes in the board game universe.→
Review: Orbis
Do you have a secret (or not so secret) god complex? Do you often wish→
Review: Gingerbread House
I love gingerbread houses. Well, any sort of baked good that can be made into→
Review: Dragon Castle
If there’s one thing we should learn from games like Azul or Santorini, it’s to→
Review: Grackles
Grackles are known to congregate on telephone wires and sing their noisy, tone-deaf songs (and→
Review: Seikatsu
Seikatsu was one of several 2017 abstract releases to utilize the “line of sight” mechanism.→
Review: Indian Summer
Whoop! Another tile laying game to review! It seems like lately the gaming universe has→
Review: Queendomino
Blue Orange Games ended up with a huge hit on their hands in 2017 when→
Review: Hoyuk
The dawn of civilization, and you’ve decided to wake up to it. The early bird→
Review: Barenpark
Face it, bears are adorable. (Unless you come face to face with a grizzly in→
Review: Kingdomino
You’ve probably heard by now that Kingdomino won the 2017 Spiel des Jahres award. (If→
Review: Slide Blast
It’s summertime (in the northern hemisphere, anyway) and it’s time for some fun at the→
Review: Praetor
Back in the glory days of the Roman Empire, everyone wanted to win the favor→
Review: Stellar Conflict
I loved Among the Stars, so when I heard that there was a new kid→
Review: Apotheca: The Secret Potion Society
Breaking into the apothecary scene isn’t as easy as 1-2-3. You’d think assembling and mixing→
Dusty Dragon #12: Oregon
In modern board gaming, we tend to have a short memory and a long wishlist. Kickstarter→
Review: Lanterns: The Harvest Festival
Back at Christmas, a real Chinese Lantern Festival came to my city. I’d never seen→
Top Ten Games by Reiner Knizia
Last year marked Reiner Knizia’s thirtieth anniversary of designing games, and to commemorate the occasion, he→
Review: King Chocolate
Making chocolate is complicated. You’ve got six steps in the production chain, cubes to manage,→
Review: Isle of Skye
Being a chief wasn’t so bad. Until you heard about this king gig. Now you→
Review: New York 1901
It’s easy to look at the New York City of today and forget that it→
Review: Between Two Cities
You are a city planner hired to collaborate simultaneously on two cities. You want to→
Review: Samurai
The emperor has lost his hold on Japan, and the time has come to act.→
Review: Takenoko Chibis
The Emperor of China, in a gesture of peace and goodwill, gave you a male→
Review: Dark Seas
Pirates! It seems like everyone loves pirate themed games. They’re certainly among my favorites. Some,→
Review: Gold Ahoy!
There be treasure in these waters, and you’re out to find it. The map is→
Review: NanoBot Battle Arena
Imagine a future where microscopic NanoBots have been trained to fight it out in a→
Preview: The Kingswood
A vast treasure sits recently discovered in the heart of the dense Kingswood. You lead→
Review: Among the Stars
When I was growing up, I was one of those kids who liked to rearrange→
Review: Enigma
“It’s like getting two games in one!” That should be the sales tagline for Enigma→