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Vikings – Horned Helmets and Real Estate Management
Vikings by Michael Kiesling defies expectations. When you hear Vikings, you’ll think exploration, pillaging, and mayhem. In this box you’ll instead find a fast economic game about fiscal responsibility and real estate management.
Draft & Write Records
The joy of the ‘roll and write’ or ‘flip and write’, or now, the ‘draft and write’ genre of games is the ability to earn cascading bonuses. It feels so good when you take your single card, add a musician to your band list, cross off a harmony along the bottom, which gives you a free action in your agenda, which completes a row and a diagonal, gives you a record deal, a tour, and two more harmony dots you can fill in, which can cascade into more bonuses.
Familiars and Foes Review – My Little Roguelike
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...
Race for the Galaxy
I like playing Super Smash Brothers, I always have. I’ve played every iteration, and it’s one of the few straight-up fighting games that I actually enjoy. My enthusiasm for Smash Bros has led me to exist in a very weird state. I can crush all of my friends, no competition, but I’m not good enough for the competitive scene. The few times I’ve dabbled in tournaments, I’ve gotten eliminated almost immediately. This is the state I find myself with Tom Lehmann’s Race for the Galaxy, I feel like I have an advantage over my friends, simply for having played it over 100 times, but when I approach other enthusiasts, I’m still a beginner, comparatively.
Bullet❤️ – Multiplayer Review
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...
Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion
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...
Maglev Metro
Designers: Ted Alspach Artist: Alanna Kelsey, Ollin Timm Release Year: 2021 Mechanics: Pick up and Deliver, Tile Placement, Route Building Players: 2 to 4 Introduction Some signs of a man rapidly approaching middle age may include weight gain, hair loss, and a sudden...
Fugitive – Board Game Review
Number of Plays: 6 (since I started recording my gameplays, I have dozens more from 2017 and 2018 that are lost to time) Game Length: 15 minutes Mechanics: Hand Management, Hidden Movement Release Year: 2017 Designer: Tim Fowers Artist: Ryan Goldsberry Introduction...
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