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Viticulture: Bordeaux – Board Game Expansion Review
Disclaimer: A copy of Viticulture: Bordeaux was provided by Stonemaier Games I’ve always found Viticulture to be a bit of a fascinating contradiction. On one hand, it presents this warm, inviting fantasy of running a Tuscan vineyard, slowly cultivating grapes,...
Pirates of Maracaibo – Board Game Review
I have a complicated relationship with Alexander Pfister games. And by complicated relationship, I mean I actively dislike most of his designs. Great Western Trail, Blackout Hong Kong, and Maracaibo all illicit feelings of frustration and hatred from my heart when I...
Kabuto Sumo – Board Game Review
Sometimes, I come into a game with no expectations at all, and then am pleasantly surprised when the game turns out to be amazing. Take Time, Scout, and No Thanks are all examples of games that I knew almost nothing about before playing utterly falling in love. The...
Tatsumi – Board Game Review
I’m a pretty antisocial kind of guy, which is not exactly conducive to building a community. I’m the perpetual lurker: always reading, always watching, rarely commenting. I show up to public events and hover near the wall, sticking close to the people I already know,...
Hungry Monkey – Board Game Review
I don’t know what’s changed about me lately, but I often found myself preferring the shorter card games instead of the big, heavy, rules-dense board games that used to dominate my life. Maybe it’s just the phase of life I’m in, the fatigue that comes with raising...
Heat: Pedal to the Metal – Board Game Review
I think one of the byproducts of growing up in a town that was basically 2 km long and half a kilometre wide is that I never really developed a need for a car until I was in my early twenties. And as a result of not having a car for the entire first half of my life,...
The White Castle – Board Game Review
I'm Canadian, so any jokes about White Castle as a fast food chain are pretty lost on me. Although, thanks to Harold and Kumar, the references are not completely lost in translation. The White Castle, in my context, is a die drafting game designed by Sheila Santos and...
Recall – Board Game Review
Sometimes I wonder how much designers end up living in the shadow of their own biggest hits. Does Agricola loom large in the mind of Uwe Rosenberg, affecting everything he touches? Is every new Stefan Feld release inevitably compared to The Castles of Burgundy? And...
Vantage – Board Game Review
Disclaimer: a copy of Vantage was provided by Stonemaier Games for review It’s kind of hard to know how to approach Vantage. The box is big, black, and heavy. Physically heavy, sure, but also weighed down by expectation. This is a project that Jamey Stegmaier spent...
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