by Alex McKenzie | Sep 23, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Legacy games get a bad rap around my table. I’ve started more than half a dozen and completed only 2. It seems my thirst for discovery goes beyond incremental rule changes and I find it burdensome to feel the obligation to play a game, rather than picking it because...
by Alex McKenzie | Sep 16, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Introduction Kites, designed by Kevin Hamano and published by Floodgate Games, is a real time cooperative card game about keeping your kites in the sky, or rather, sand in the timers. Honestly, if a game has a real-time component, I’m instantly down to give it a shot,...
by Alex McKenzie | Sep 9, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Beast is a hidden movement game, designed by Aron Midhall, Elon Midhall, and Assar Pettersson, and published by Studio Midhall. As many Kickstarter darlings are, it’s an absolutely gorgeous production. The box art depicts a massive hydra before a lone warrior, weapon...
by Alex McKenzie | Sep 2, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
Introduction As a kid, I absolutely loved the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books, or more specifically, the “Give Yourself Goosebumps” game book series, which were billed as a ‘choose your own horror adventure’ novel series by R. L. Stine. If you’ve never had the...
by Alex McKenzie | Aug 26, 2023 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
That’s right, I’m using its full, Klaus Teuber-given name, ‘The Settlers of Catan’. Not this hip and trendy shortened name that everyone was using already. I’m just holding out for people to just start calling it C, as if it’s the only game that ever existed. I find...
by Alex McKenzie | Aug 23, 2023 | Book Reviews, Reviews
Project Hail Mary begins with an amnesiac astronaut waking up in a room with two mummified bodies, and needs to remember who he is and what he’s doing. Turns out, he’s on a space station hurtling through space. Through a series of flashbacks we learn that the hero,...