by Alex McKenzie | Oct 2, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Number of Plays: 16 Game Length: 30-45 minutes Mechanics: Tile Placement, Auction Release Year: 2007 Designer: Michael Kiesling Artist: Harald Lieske, Michael Menzel Introduction It’s pretty rare that I learn a game digitally. I find it so much harder to learn a game...
by Alex McKenzie | Sep 24, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Designer: Bruno Maciel Artist: Pedro A. Alberto Publisher: Inside Up Games Players: 1 – 6 Mechanics: Draft and Write A prototype of Draft & Write Records was provided by the publisher for review purposes Introduction A great shame in my life is that I never grew...
by Alex McKenzie | Sep 23, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Designers: Christopher K Lees and Jordan E Perme Artist: Jordan E Perme Release Year: 2022 Mechanics: Cooperative, Dice Rolling Combat, Variable Player Powers Players: 1 to 5 A prototype copy of the game was provided for review purposes How to Play Familiars and Foes...
by Alex McKenzie | Sep 3, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Plays: Physically, 2. On Board Game Arena, 148 Game Length: Physically, 30 – 45 minutes. On Board Game Arena, 10 minutes Mechanics: card drafting, tableu building Release Year: 2007 Designer: Thomas Lehmann Artist: Martin Hoffmann, Claus Stephan, Mirko Suzuki...
by Alex McKenzie | Aug 29, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Designers: Joshua Van Laningham Artist: Collateral Damage Studios, Sebastian Koziner, Usanekorin, and Davy Wagnarok Release Year: 2021 Mechanics: Pattern Matching, Push Your Luck Players: 1-4 Introduction I’ve been playing hobby board games since about 2015. I started...
by Alex McKenzie | Aug 13, 2022 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Designer: Mihir Shah and Francesco Testini Artist: Andrew Bosley Publisher: Stonemaier Games Mechanics: Worker Placement, Cooperative Release Year: 2022 Introduction Viticulture has the privilege of being a top 10 game for one of my most frequent gaming partners (698...