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Zenith – Board Game Review
Zenith makes a strong first impression before you even touch a card. It’s bright and cheerful in a way sci-fi games rarely are, usually they're leaning into the darkness of space to inform their aesthetic, see Beyond the Sun or Race for the Galaxy for examples. Zenith...
Bomb Busters – Board Game Review
Remember Minesweeper? Ever since I was a little kid, I was the type of person to press every button, look in every file, check every setting. When our school go it's first Windows 95 computer, my inquisitive nature was rewarded with finding Minesweeper. Now, I'm...
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King – Board Game Review
The games being built off of the Pandemic system are getting harder and harder to spot. Since 2017's Pandemic: Rising Tide, the word Pandemic has been scrubbed from the title of all the games that reimplement this iconic cooperative system. Fall of Rome, Star Wars:...
Harmonies – Board Game Review
How many puzzly abstract games do I actually need in my life? While the answer is N+1, I have to admit that I've been holding off on picking up Harmonies for much too long. Harmonies, designed by Johan Benvenuto and published by Libellud in 2024, garnered a lot of...
Revive – Board Game Review
My 4-year-old has recently been absolutely smitten with the movie WALL-E lately. A ruined world left barren and destitute, filled to the brim with trash and catastrophic dust storms suddenly whipping up to create a moment of tension. The first sign of life appears as...
Azul – Board Game Review
Azul, by designer Michael Kiesling, was released to the world in 2017. A puzzly little abstract game, it was an instant hit in the board gaming world. That same year, at the exact same time from my perspective, Sagrada, a puzzly little abstract game was also released,...
Rococo – Board Game Review
The late 00's and early 2010's were a beige time in board games. Lots of board games with shades of brown and themes about trading spices and goods for prestige in the Mediterranean. Let's not forget all the covers with grumpy men staring either at you, or off into...
Akropolis: Athena – Expansion Review
I'm not really an expansion kind of guy. In general, when given the choice between buying an expansion to a game I already know, or buying a whole new game, I'm going to pick buying a new game almost every time. Yes, I realize expansions are usually cheaper, and there...
Undergrove – Board Game Review
I like mushrooms, but only in the context of the kitchen. Some tasty morels, lobsters, and oyster mushrooms will always get me excited. I do find mushrooms kind of fascinating, how fast they can grow, how different they can all be, but their poisonous nature has...
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