Category: Reviews

Designers / Publisher / Year: Steffen Benndorf / Gamewright / 2016 Player Count / Playtime: 2 Players / 20 Minutes Genre / Type / Mechanics: Dice Game, Bingo, Dice Rolling, 2-Player Reminds Me Of: Qwixx I am already a big fan of Qwixx, so a version designed specifically for two players immediately caught my attention. My wife and I…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Bobby Powell / CavernWire Games / 2026 Player Count / Playtime: 1-6 Players / 20-30 Minutes Genre / Type / Mechanics: Connections, Tile Placement, Puzzle Expansions: Vine: Pumpkins and Beetles (2026) Kickstarter Page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cavernwiregames/vine Vine is a light tile placement and engine building game about growing a beanstalk and producing the best harvest of…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Gary Garris, Kyle Shepherd, Josh Mirenda, Papa G / Self Published / 2026 Player Count / Playtime: 1-6 Players / 20-40 Minutes Genre / Type / Mechanics: Golf, Golf Simulation, Die Rolling, Luck Lucky Lie Golf Store: https://luckyliegolf.com/ Lucky Lie Golf is a simple dice game that takes the basic idea of playing a…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Thomas Demuth / Self Published / 2026 Player Count / Playtime: 2-5 Players / 30-60 Minutes Genre / Type / Mechanics: Racing, Trains, Transportation, Hand Management, Take That, Real Time Kickstarter Page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thomulate/visit-nyc-the-subway-racing-game Visit NYC Store: https://www.visitnycgame.store/ Sometimes a game doesn’t need a dozen interconnected mechanics or a massive decision space to keep me…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Hermann Luttmann / Flying Pig Games / 2022 Player Count / Playtime: 2 Players / 60-infinity mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Wargame, American Civil War, Hexagon Grid Movement, Dice rolling, Line of Sight, Movement Points, Simulation Expansions: A Most Fearful Sacrifice: Pipe Creek – Meade’s Last Stand (2025) A Most Fearful Sacrifice is an…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Max Hui Bai Ph.D. / Self / 2025 Player Count / Playtime: 3-6 Players / 40 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Card Game, Party Game, Set Collection, Academics, Humor Expansions: The Publish or Perish Game: Expansion 1 – The Revenge of Reviewer 2 (2025), The Publish or Perish Game: Expansion 2 – Academic Sh*tpost (2025),…

Designers / Publisher / Year: John Hayes / Leafboats Ltd. Co. / 2022 Player Count / Playtime: 3-99 Players / 10 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Party Game, Card Game, Mature, Adult Reminds Me Of: Getting my mouth washed out with soap Cussing is exactly what the title suggests. I backed it on Kickstarter because the premise made…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Ben Famiglietti / Puppet Arcade / 2024 Player Count / Playtime: 2-5 Players / 30-60 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Party Game, Trivia, Bluffing Initial Thoughts is a trivia game that I backed on Kickstarter, and it ended up being a pleasant surprise. Trivia games can sometimes feel repetitive, with players simply recalling…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Roger Porter / Tabletop Cowboy / 2025 Player Count / Playtime: 2 Players / 15 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Miniatures, Medieval, Fantasy, Jousting, Humorous Drunk Jousting is one of those games that proves you don’t need a box full of components to have a good time. Created by Roger Porter…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Mateusz Skutnik / Self / 2025 Player Count / Playtime: 1-4 Players / 30 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Card Game, Maze, Puzzle, Abstract Submachine is a compact tableau-building card game that I backed on Kickstarter, and one of my favorite things about it is the presentation. I’m a sucker for games that…