by Alex McKenzie | Jan 22, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Food Chain Magnate is my favourite board game of all time. I get physically excited when pulling this game off the shelf, and before the expansion was announced, I would have argued that it was a perfect game. I’ve owned the Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism...
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 | Nov 5, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Introduction I guess this is my new tradition. Get sick, review a Pandemic game. I didn’t catch Covid like last time, but I was sick enough that I cancelled my weekend plans. I chose to spend my time thinking about Pandemic: Fall of Rome instead of spreading the...
by Alex McKenzie | Oct 29, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Designer: Andrew Looney Publisher: Looney Labs Year: 2017 Introduction I’ve always preferred the fantasy side of fiction. Sci-fi is great and all, but it’s never been my preferred flavour. Doctor Who is a series that I never bothered with until I met a girl who...
by Alex McKenzie | Oct 22, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Introduction Should games be reviewed in a vacuum? When I consider a game, should I be looking at it as a product as if no other games exist, or should I be comparing it to similar games? Does this change if the designer of the game already has a similar game on the...
by Alex McKenzie | Oct 15, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Introduction Once again, I’m confronted with the question, “Should games be reviewed in a vacuum?”. When considering a game, should I look at it from the perspective of when it was released? Should I compare it to similar games, or to the past works of the...