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Evolution – It’s Not Easy Being a Carnivore
Number of (physical) plays: 6Designers: Dominic Crapuchettes, Dmitry Knorre, and Sergey MachinArtists: JJ Ariosa, Giorgio De Michele, Catherine Hamilton, and Kurt MillerRelease Year: 2014Mechanics: Hand Management, Direct Conflict, Secret Unit DeploymentPublisher:...
Eclipse – It’s a Euro-y War Game, I Swear!
Number of plays: 3 Designer: Touko Tahkokallio Artists: Ossi Hiekkala and Sampo Sikiö Release Year: 2011 Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Modular Board, Direct Conflict It's always fascinating when a piece of media tries to cross barriers between genres. I'm thinking of games...
The Fox in the Digital Forest
Game Length: 5-10 minutes Mechanics: Hand Management, Trick Taking Release Year: 2021 (Steam) Designer: Joshua Buergel Artist: Jennifer L. Meyer Publisher: Direwolf Digital A pre-release review code was provided by Direwolf Digital. I played the Steam version of The...
Hamsters vs. Hippos – The Hippos are Always Hungry
A copy of Hamsters vs. Hippos was provided by the publisher Number of Plays: 4 Game Length: 15 – 40 minutes Mechanics: Press your luck, Player Elimination Release Year: 2021 Designer: James Freeman, James Staley, Adam Staley Artist: César Ayala Delgado Publisher: Tin...
Food Chain Magnate
Number of Plays: 16 Game Length: 120-240 minutes Mechanics: card drafting, economic market, action selection Release Year: 2015 Designer: Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga Artist: Iris de Haan, Ynze Moedt Introduction Let’s flash back to 2008. I was 17 and had just moved...
Project L – Spatial Relation Splendor
Number of Plays: 4 Game Length: 15 - 30 minutes Mechanics: Tile Placement, Puzzle Release Year: 2019 Designer: Michal Mikeš, Jan Soukal, Adam Spanel Artist: Jaroslav Jurica, Marek Loskot, Pavel Richter Intro Let me tell you a bit about my mom. Some of my earliest...
Pairs
Number of Plays: 34 Game Length: 5 minutes Mechanics: Push your luck Release Year: 2014 Designer: James Ernest, Heinrich Gumpler, Paul Peterson Artist: Like, 25 people. Depends on the version you buy. Intro My favourite book of all time is The Name of the Wind by...
Head to Head: Calico vs Cascadia
Over the past few weeks I've been playing Cascadia by Randy Flynn. One evening in particular I played Cascadia, then immediately after played Calico by Kevin Russ. While the two games share some similarities, the biggest thing they have in common is that they're both...
Lost Cities – Don’t Start What You Can’t Finish
Number of Plays: 8 (Plus 30 games on Board Game Arena) Game Length: 20 – 30 minutes Mechanics: Hand Management, Set collection Release Year: 1999 Designer: Reiner Knizia Artist: Anke Pohl, Thilo Rick, and Claus Stephan Intro Once upon a time I had a roommate. He and I...
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