by Alex McKenzie | Apr 7, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, First Impressions
The tagline for Portal Games is “Board games That Tell Stories”, and in my experience, they do a good job in delivering a story to tell during game night. Neuroshima Hex spins a tale of a standoff, each side getting stronger and stronger with each passing turn, until...
by Alex McKenzie | Feb 5, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, First Impressions
Do you have control issues? Does the idea of relying on others to achieve your goals make your skin crawl? Are you the type of person who detests group projects and ends up doing everything because your teammates won’t do their portion of the work up to your level of...
by Alex McKenzie | Jan 25, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, First Impressions, Reviews
Age of Steam (2002) by John Bohrer and Martin Wallace has a long and storied history, but I’m not privy to the details. The game has been reimplemented by Railways of the World and by Steam: Rails to Riches. There was also a lengthy legal battle between Martin Wallace...
by Alex McKenzie | Nov 6, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, First Impressions
Introduction Slay the Spire: The Board Game, designed by Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano and published by Contention Games is currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. As a fan of the video game it’s based on, I have been eagerly...
by Alex McKenzie | Jan 30, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, First Impressions
A minimum viable prototype was provided for review by the publisher Designer: Emil Larsen Artists: Dinulescu Alexandru, Linggar Bramanty, Przemek Kozlowski Release Year: 2023 Mechanics: Cooperative, Dungeon Crawling, Dice Rolling, Modular Board, Legacy Rogue Angels:...