Ex Libris is a new game (2017) that pits you as competing librarians arranging books. What could be easier, right? It’s actually a fairly involved game with a lot of intrigue and fun. It’s yet another good game if you’ve got the time, quick enough for a warmup but involved enough to play repeatedly over …
Tiny Epic Galaxies (2015) is the space-themed version of the Tiny Epic series, a fast format game for 2 or more players. It does a great job of getting players right into the game, working to strategically balance the pursuit of varying resources as they build their space empires. You settle planets and work to …
Anachrony is one of the more interesting games I’ve seen in a while, a fairly lengthy, strategically dense but peaceful contest between groups of humans on a future earth battling for resources. It is a worker-placement game on steroids or more literally, a worker placement game on mechs, where you place the workers into the …
Adrenaline is a newish (2016) game that captures the feeling of first-person shooter video games in a tabletop format. It doesn’t quite move with the same ferocity as a video game as it moves to the tabletop, but it’s about as good as a tabletop version is going to get. I first played it at …
So we took the 2011 game The Walking Dead out for a spin last week. It’s an older game now but if I play it, I blog it. Overall Feeling A gritty struggle. That’s the feeling of The Walking Dead game, which is a great fit for its source material, but I don’t know if that’s …
There are so many great games out there, that sometimes, a few years go by before you discover a great game that’s been out for a while. That is the case with Orléans, one that I’m surprised hasn’t made more noise. Even though it’s a bit of an older game (2014) now, it’s still worth a full …
Gotta tell you, I’ve been excited to write this one for a while now, because of all the dozens of titles we’ve played recently, this one is the best. Terraforming Mars has a strong theme, sound mechanics, great components and it just pulls off what it’s trying to do as well as any game I’ve …
Four in-person 2v2 duels preceded by a rousing match of Slapshot. All four duels featured lightsaber wielders as major characters and in most cases, minor characters as well. Darth Plagueis & Apprentice Sidious and Sora Bulq defeated Master Obi-Wan & Jedi Knight Anakin and Saesee Tiin & Agen Kolar on Geonosis Arena Obi-Wan & Anakin aggressively …
As both of my gaming groups and I are all already fans of 7 Wonders, I was excited to get a crack at the still fairly new 7 Wonders Duel. It didn’t disappoint. Overall Feeling If you’re already familiar with 7 Wonders, it’s an outstanding game for the way it makes you feel part of …
So we broke out the game Arcadia Quest the other day, put together trio squads of cartoonish eleves and bashed Orcs and Trolls by throwing dice. So yeah, it was loads of fun. Here’s a review: Overall Feeling Arcadia Quest completes its own quest of putting you in the middle of an action sequence, with …