There are a lot of great games being designed in Chicago and the surrounding area, and I got to try out a lot of them a little over a week ago at the third annual Protospiel Chicago. I had some other obligations to keep this weekend, so I couldn’t attend Protospiel for more than about …
I write about this concept a lot, and want to spell it out with examples of the games that do it best. There are many different ways to achieve it, here we go: Building Agricola The Uwe Rosenberg worker placement game is sort of my classic do-something game. Even if you don’t win, who doesn’t …
With only a couple of hours left for gaming after advancing our epic Pathfinder adventure, we were able to play through a game of Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure (2016) and it was great fun. It’s a deck-building game with a dungeon map, treasure, and a fearsome dragon. You’re a treasure-stealing thief type with your aim to …