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170 Mediocre Games, or 3 Great Games?
Prefer to listen to my voice instead of reading these words? This post is available on the Talking Tabletop Podcast Episode 2, amongst other great board game contributors! This weekend, I was chatting with my cousin about our new year resolutions in regard to our...
Steam Next Fest – 5 Demos That Caught my Eye
Imagine my surprise when I launch Steam and am greeted with Steam's Next Fest, a demo filled celebration, showcasing games that are currently in development. Rife with developer streams and more games than you can shake a stick at, I thought it would be fun to...
What is a Point Worth? – Introducing Goodat.games
What is a point worth? This is a question that comes up frequently when I'm learning new games. After the rules are done and the scoring conditions are being discussed, I have to ask what the average score tends to be. Unfortunately, I am frequently playing new games...
Emotional Weekend Part 2 – Beartown
CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Violence Spoilers for the book ahead. You have been warned. I've always identified as 'a reader'. Reading books is a core part of my identity. From the Scholastic book fairs as a child to wandering through giant book stores as an adult, I've...
Emotional Weekend Part 1 – Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
I'm keenly aware that this is a board game review blog, and that I'm ill-equipped to offer a proper review on something so outside my wheelhouse, but sometimes you need to step outside your comfort zone. This weekend, I engaged with art that left me emotionally raw,...
What Does Your Board Game Collection Mean to You?
I recently saw a post on one of the various online board game groups that I'm a member of that got me thinking. It was "Shelfie" (A photo or series of photos of one's board game collection) that's fairly common in those spaces, but the caption read "My next game not...
Revisiting the 10 Best New-To-Me Games in 2021
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...
Challenging your Hobby – Talking about Board Game Challenges
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...
Top 5 Games I Want to Play in 2023
I have this "want to play" list that is constantly growing. As new games come out and catch my interest, I put them on the list where they languish until the opportunity to play them comes along. Unfortunately, with my current gaming habits, the list grows faster than...
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