Category: Reviews

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…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Donald X. Vaccarino / Rio Grande Games / 2025 Player Count / Playtime: 1-5 Players / 45-90 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Card Game, Tableau Building, Deck Building, Science Fiction There are few board game titles that grab your attention quite like Moon Colony Bloodbath. Before you even open the box, the name…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Mike Belsole, Grace Kendall / Runaway Parade Games LLC / 2023 Player Count / Playtime: 3-15 Players / 15 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Party Game, Riddles, Card Game, Player Judge Ever since the success of Cards Against Humanity, a wave of party games built around player judges and subjective answers has flooded the…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Josh Wood / Alderac Entertainment Group / 2023 Player Count / Playtime: 2-4 Players / 20 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Card Game, Set Collection, Open Drafting, Cats, Family Reimplemented By: Dog Lover (2021) Cat Lady is a light card-drafting game where players compete to become the most successful caretaker of a collection…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Jason Glover / Grey Gnome Games / 2022 Player Count / Playtime: 2-4 Players / 30-45 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Card Game, Hand Management, Area Influence, Tile Placement, Fantasy This is the first game I’ve reviewed from Jason Glover and Grey Gnome Games, and honestly, it feels long overdue. Jason has become…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Oleg Meleshin, Yury Yamshchikov / Timashov Publishing / 2023 Player Count / Playtime: 1-3 Players / 10 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Card Game, Set Collection, Drafting, Bluffing Reminds Me Of: Point Salad Pacific Ocean is a light card game that I picked up through Kickstarter back in 2023. The gameplay is very simple…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Steffen Benndorf / Gamewright / 2012 Player Count / Playtime: 2-5 Players / 20 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Dice Game, Bingo, Paper and Pencil Qwixx is one of those rare dice games that is both incredibly simple and surprisingly engaging. On each turn, players use the results of two dice to cross…