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The Game Makers – Board Game Review
This review is based on the Board Game Arena implementation. If I had a nickel for every time a board game about making board games came out, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's odd that it happened twice in such a short time frame. The first to hit...
My Island – Board Game Review
Spoilers ahead My Island was the hotly anticipated 2023 follow-up to 2020's eminently popular My City, both games designed by Reiner Knizia and published by KOSMOS. This review was 2 years in the making, as my first game of My Island was on October 28th, 2023, and the...
Automobiles: Racing Season – Board Game Review
Automobiles: Racing Season feels like a Monkey's Paw type of expansion. It's something you thought you really wanted, but when it comes to fruition, you're left with regrets. You see, this expansion adds 3 more maps, and a Grand Prix mode where you carry over your...
Wyrmspan – Board Game Review
A copy of Wyrmspan was provided by Stonemaier Games for review purposes. Introduction Wyrmspan is an odd game to describe. On the one hand, it’s clearly the spiritual sibling of Wingspan, the bird-collecting blockbuster that has brought countless people into our...
Orléans – Board Game Review
A perpetual argument amongst ignorant anglophones in the board game community is how you pronounce certain game tiles. Orléans gets the or-LEENZ or OR-le-enh. Being a written medium, I don't need to wade into this argument. I have the benefit of copy and paste, then...
Brass: Birmingham – Board Game Review
I've never dreamed of running a coal and beer fuelled canal empire in industrial era England, but the creative team behind Brass: Birmingham decided that the dirty, dark background was the best idea for an award-winning board game, so here we are. Brass: Birmingham is...
Crokinole – The Good Old Disk Flicking Game
Introduction Being from the northern Canadian prairies means I was culturally isolated for most of my youth. It didn't even cross my mind that some people go their whole lives without seeing the northern lights (or, aurora borealis) on an almost nightly basis. That...
Cretaceous Rails – Board Game Review
A copy of Cretaceous Rails was provided by Spielcraft Games for the purposes of review As someone who has never actually sat down to watch a Jurassic Park movie, I don't necessarily understand how the dinosaur theme and the theme park aesthetic have become so...
Shipyard (Second Edition) – Board Game Review
I've been on quite the Vladimir Suchy kick lately. He's a prolific board game designer that has had some hits and misses with me, but more often than not, I find joy in his games. As I said in my Suchy Round Up, a Suchy game is generally a tight economic euro game...
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