by Alex McKenzie | Jan 28, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
If you want to hear me read this post out loud, you can listen to my Whatcha Been Playing Wednesday segment on Cardboard Conjecture podcast! Introduction Civilization building games aren’t something that I explicitly seek out. I’ve played a small amount of Sid Mayer’s...
by Alex McKenzie | Jan 25, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, First Impressions, Reviews
Age of Steam (2002) by John Bohrer and Martin Wallace has a long and storied history, but I’m not privy to the details. The game has been reimplemented by Railways of the World and by Steam: Rails to Riches. There was also a lengthy legal battle between Martin Wallace...
by Alex McKenzie | Jan 22, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Food Chain Magnate is my favourite board game of all time. I get physically excited when pulling this game off the shelf, and before the expansion was announced, I would have argued that it was a perfect game. I’ve owned the Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism...
by Alex McKenzie | Jan 13, 2023 | Blog
As of this month, my blog will be 2 years old, so I think it’s time I start looking back and revisiting some of the games I talked about in the beginning. As time goes on, our gaming tastes change and I feel value in looking back at what I was keen on, and how much...
by Alex McKenzie | Jan 4, 2023 | Blog
It’s the start of a new year, and with every turning of the calendar comes a deluge of people taking this opportunity to set goals and challenges for the coming year. As board gamers, I believe something we share is a love of creating rulesets and then trying to excel...