Category: Reviews

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…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Grayden Baker / Warped Reality Games / 2025 Player Count / Playtime: 1-6 Players / 30 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Card Game, Animals, Territory Building, Hand Management, Pattern Building Reminds Me Of: Pacific Ocean Kickstarter Edition: One metal round tracker, six (fun) manatee stickers Expansions: The Green Manatees Mini Expansion Some games…

Designers / Publisher / Year: John D. Clair / Alderac Entertainment Group / 2021 Player Count / Playtime: 2-4 Players / 45 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Dice, Racing, Push-Your-Luck, Pool Building, Dice Rolling, Catch the Leader Reminds Me Of: Spots Cubitos is a colorful dice-building racing game where players compete to be the first across the finish…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Randy Flynn / Flatout Games / 2021 Player Count / Playtime: 1-4 Players / 30-45 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Pattern Building, Open Drafting, Hexagon Grid, Animals, Environmental, Family, Abstract Reminds Me Of: Harmonies Ever since Cascadia was released, it has become one of the defining tile-laying games of the genre. Harmonies arrived…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Dan Cassaro / Weast Coast / 2022 Player Count / Playtime: 2 Players / 15 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Tile Placement, Abstract, Strategy, Connections, Snakes Reminds Me Of: Carcassonne Kickstarter Components: A signed and numbered, limited edition of the game! If you’ve ever wished Carcassonne was a little meaner and a little…