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Switch & Signal – Board Game Review
Switch & Signal is a cooperative game in which you are tasked with corralling speeding trains from their points of origin to cities to collect goods, then to the port to deliver the good. The board contains 4 different cities, each producing 2 goods of the associated colour, and 11 points around the board in which a train might appear. Players win if they can deliver all the goods to the port, but lose if you run out of departure cards.
Fog of Love – The Romantic Comedy as a Board Game
Fog of Love by Jacob Jaskov and currently published by Floodgate Games but originally published by Hush Hush Projects, is a 2 player role-playing game. You and your partner will create and play as two characters who meet, fall in love, and try to complete your own hidden objectives, which may end with a happily ever after, or, a tragic break-up.
Quirky Circuits – 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 expectations? Well, have I got a game for you!
Nations – Card Based Civilization Building Game, but Not the One You’re Thinking Of!
Nations, designed by Rustan Håkansson, Nina Håkansson, Einar Rosén, and Robert Rosén, and published by Lautapelit.fi in 2013, is a card based civilization game for 1 – 5 players. In Nations, you’ll take control of a civilization and lead them from the age of antiquity all the way through the industrial revolution.
Age of Steam – 2002’s Best Train Game
Age of Steam 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.
But let’s not talk about that part of history, let’s talk about the actual game. Age of Steam is a train game in which you and your opponents are trying to develop your train company and delivering goods in the longest way possible. Efficiency will not be rewarded on the free market.
Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas – First Impressions
I’ve owned the Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas for a couple of years now, and I’ve had a chance to play through most of the modules at least once. I thought it would be fun to go through each of the modules and briefly talk about how they change the game.
Slay the Spire: The Board Game – First Impressions
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 anticipating this game since it was announced nearly a year ago. Boasting a $135, is this game worth that kind of cash?
Pandemic: Fall of Rome
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 wealth of sore throats and achey joints to my family and friends.
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