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My City
Legacy games get a bad rap around my table. I've started more than half a dozen and completed only 2. It seems my thirst for discovery goes beyond incremental rule changes and I find it burdensome to feel the obligation to play a game, rather than picking it because...
Kites
Introduction Kites, designed by Kevin Hamano and published by Floodgate Games, is a real time cooperative card game about keeping your kites in the sky, or rather, sand in the timers. Honestly, if a game has a real-time component, I'm instantly down to give it a shot,...
Beast – Board Game Reivew
Beast is a hidden movement game, designed by Aron Midhall, Elon Midhall, and Assar Pettersson, and published by Studio Midhall. As many Kickstarter darlings are, it's an absolutely gorgeous production. The box art depicts a massive hydra before a lone warrior, weapon...
Spire’s End – Choose Your Own Adventure Deck?
Introduction As a kid, I absolutely loved the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, or more specifically, the "Give Yourself Goosebumps" game book series, which were billed as a 'choose your own horror adventure' novel series by R. L. Stine. If you've never had the...
The Settlers of Catan – Board Game Review
That's right, I'm using its full, Klaus Teuber-given name, 'The Settlers of Catan'. Not this hip and trendy shortened name that everyone was using already. I'm just holding out for people to just start calling it C, as if it's the only game that ever existed. I find...
GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- – Heaven or Hell?
Disclaimer: A copy of GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- SOL VS, KY demo deck was provided by Level 99 Games. Introduction I'll be honest, I've never been good at fighting games. I barely competent enough to beat M. Bison on easy mode while playing Street Fighter II Turbo on my...
Akropolis
Introduction One of the things I enjoy most about board games is their tactile nature. And nothing feels more tactile than laying some thick cardboard tiles. There's a lot I love about games, but give me some tiles and an efficiency puzzle, and I'll be happy until the...
Lost Cities: Rivals
Introduction I'm at a weird inflection point on my board game hobby. Sometimes, I acquire a game, then, after some time passes, I completely forget how I acquired that game. Such is the case for Lost Cities: Rivals. I own it, but I have no recollection on how I...
Aethermon: Collect
Full Disclosure: A copy of Aethermon: Collect was provided by the publisher for review Introduction I vividly remember the summer of 1999. I was 8 years old, my grandparents were taking me and my sister on a weeks long road trip across Manitoba, and down to South...
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