by Alex McKenzie | May 2, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, First Impressions
Introduction I have very little experience with One vs. Many games. I’ve played Scotland Yard once, Betrayal at House on the Hill once, and Pandemic with the bio-terrorist expansion once. All of these experiences have been fine, but none of them have inspired a love...
by Alex McKenzie | Apr 22, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
I recently took a minor vacation to visit my family, but travelling with a toddler is tough enough without carting around extra luggage, so I vowed to pack as leanly as possible. This meant bringing none of my games on vacation with me. Fortunately, there’s a few...
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 | Apr 1, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Pendulum, by Travis P Jones, and published by Stonemaier Games in 2020, is a real time worker placement game. It was lauded in that it was the highest-rated prototype ever during a Stonemaier Games Design Day. Now, I don’t know what the scoring rubric is for one of...
by Alex McKenzie | Mar 19, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Full Disclosure – A copy of HerStory was provided by Underdog Games for review purposes Introduction March is Women’s History Month, and to celebrate both the month, and the 19th Amendment (granting women the right to vote in the USA), Underdog Games is selling their...
by Alex McKenzie | Mar 8, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
A copy of Zaberias was provided by the designer for review purposes Zaberias is the kind of game I wished I had as a kid. It presents itself as a fairly light tactical skirmish game where you throw yourself against an opponent. Considering just how much Final Fantasy...