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Toss a Coin to your Game Teacher
I feel like this post may be preaching to the choir, as I suspect the intersection of person who reads a board game blog and person who takes an active role in teaching and introducing new games is close to a circle. Regardless, it’s something that’s been on my mind lately, and for those of you who listen to this and aren’t the primary game teacher, I hope you appreciate the person you have in your life for the role they fulfill.
Voidfall – First Impressions
I’m writing this post as a first impression, mostly because I don’t actually know if I’m going to be returning to Voidfall or not. Not because it’s a bad game, quite the opposite. It’s a fantastic game that I really enjoyed, but the reality of my gaming life means that I may never play this game more than twice.
Buying games ≠ playing games
I know I’m not alone when I say that I don’t get to play board games as often as I would like. Between being a parent, a husband, and an employee, my hobby time feels like it’s constantly shrinking, and it’s the first thing that I choose to cut when something comes up.
Flamecraft
Cardboard Alchemy has crafted a beautiful and charming game, one that is sure to be a hit with those perhaps on the prephery of this board game hobby. I love seeing all the stories of people discovering how muny fun board games are via a play of Wingspan, and I feel like Flamecraft has a lot of the same qualities. I don’t know what secret sauce Wingspan has that made it such a seminal hit, but I would love to see Flamecraft held up alongside it as an excellent, charming, beautiful game for people of all walks of life.
Concordia
Concordia sits high on both the boardgamegeek.com ranking list, and in my personal top 100 games list, for good reasons. It’s a fairly easy game to play, yet it has depth. There’s mastery to be discovered here, and the positive player interaction ensures that no player leaves with a sour taste in their mouth. The gameplay is smooth, the teach is unobtrusive, there’s a ton of maps to buy for instant variability, it really is the whole package for any euro-gamer.
170 Mediocre Games, or 3 Great Games?
This weekend, I was chatting with my cousin about our new year resolutions in regard to our favourite hobbies. She mentioned that she read 170 novels last year, and is hoping to top that number in 2024. I asked how she managed to read a book every other day, and she reported that most of her reading were generic romance novels that were entertaining enough while being easy and quick to consume. My own reading habits are nearly the complete opposite. I read 3 novels in 2023, two of which left me emotionally devastated. My reading habits skew much more to the quality over quantity side of the spectrum, but it got me thinking about my main hobby and the rate at which I consume board games.
Bag of Chips
Alright, this game is better than it has any right to be. At the very least, consider me charmed.
Bag of Chips, designed by Mathieu Aubert and Théo Rivière and published by Blue Orange Games, looks like a literal bag of chips, a plastic/foil pouch with a resealable top. Inside are a variety of plastic chips of different colours, representing flavours. The gameplay deals each player 6 cards, each with a unique scoring condition and a number of points based on how likely or unlikely the goal on the card is going to be satisfied.
Top 10 New to me Games in 2023
Every year I play a lot of games, but rarely am I at the bleeding edge of the new releases. I don’t go to any big conventions, I rarely back crowdfunded games, and the bulk of my board game purchases happen through the local used market. A “best games of 2023” from me would be fruitless, as I really only played 4 games released in 2023. Instead, I’m taking this opportunity to highlight the 10 best new to me games I played in 2023.
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