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Bandido – Small Box, Big Table
I’m often looking for games that travel well, which generally leads me to amassing many games that come in tiny boxes. But an important aspect to a travel game is how much table space it takes up. A few times I’ve packed a small box game into my backpack, and pulled it out at an airport or pub, only to realize that the game demands much more table space than we anticipated. This is the case with Bandido by Martin Nedergaard Andersen and published by Helvetiq.
Brian Boru: High King of Ireland
Brian Boru: High King of Ireland is an area majority game utilizing a trick-taking mechanism as a way for players to earn the right to place their influence onto each city as they vie for control of the Irish countryside. The historical note at the beginning of the rule book proclaims that Brian Boru made his name as a warrior, repelling the Viking invasions, defeating domestic rivals on the battlefield, and deftly married off his various family members to forage important alliances. He also rebuilt many monasteries, gaining him the favour of the church. Are you able to follow in this Irish King’s steps and emerge the victor?
Applejack
In Applejack players are… actually, don’t worry about the theme. The goal of the game is to earn the most honey by growing cultivating collections of apples in your orchard, and arranging beehives to produce the most honey.
Mind Space
Roll & Write games! Remember when these little gems were considered novel and few and far between, just a few years ago? Well, Nao Shimamura’s first kick at the can is a little title called Mind Space and is being published by Allplay. Is it a mind-blowing revelation, or just another set of dice with dry-erase markers to go stale on your shelf? Read on to find out!
Rainforest
Have you ever walked through a jungle and thought to yourself, “I love how colourful this place is! The vibrant green, red, purple, and blue ferns?” and “Wouldn’t this bright yellow fern look lovely if it had an equally yellow parrot on it?” No? Me either.
My City: Roll & Build – Board Game Review
My City: Roll & Build is the 2022 follow up to 2020’s My City, both published by KOSMOS. My City: Roll & Build takes the essence of My City and reduces it down to a much smaller package, and one that feels much more replayable.
[NEWS] Food Chain Magnate Special Edition
Lucky Duck Games has announced that they’re bringing a special edition of Splotter’s hit game, Food Chain Magnate, to Gamefound on November 14th, targeting a late 2024 delivery.
My City
My City by Reiner Knizia and published by KOSMOS is a 2 – 4 player tile laying legacy game that takes place over 24 games, broken into 8 chapters. Each chapter of the game introduces a new mechanic or a new major rule change, and each of the games within that chapter slowly increase the complexity or add wrinkles for you to contend with. It’s a little intimidating at first, hearing that you’ll have to play this game 24 times to see it through to the end, but each game only lasts between 15 and 30 minutes, making it simple to plow through 3 games in a single sitting, if you have the stomach for ever-changing rule-sets.
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