Category: Reviews

Designers / Publisher / Year: Jamey Stegmaier / Stonemaier Games / 2016 Player Count / Playtime: 1-5 Players / 120 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Engine Building, Economic, Fighting, Area Influence, Grid Movement, Territory Building, Science Fiction Expansions: Scythe: Invaders from Afar (2016), The Wind Gambit (2017), The Rise of Fenris (2018), Encounters (2018), Modular Board (2019) Set in…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Andreas Steding / Game Brewer / 2021 Player Count / Playtime: 1-4 Players / 180 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Eurogame, Exploration, Area Movement, Set Collection, Engine Building, Action Points, Worker Placement, Russian Expansions: Stroganov: Turukhan (2024) Kickstarter Deluxe Components: Big Game Box storage solution, double-sided oversized game board, double-sided…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Brent Povis / Two Lanterns Games / 2022 (Originally 2012) Player Count / Playtime: 2 Players / 30 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Card Game, Set Collection, Drafting, Hand Management Expansions: Morels: Foray (2017), Morels: 10th Anniversary Booster Pack (2022) Morels: Foray “expands Morels with new items, characters, weather, a more dynamic forest,…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Klaus-Jürgen Wrede / Z-Man Games / 2000 Player Count / Playtime: 2-5 Players / 30-45 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Territory Building, Area Influence, Map Building, Pattern Building, Medieval, Family Expansions: Inns & Cathedrals (2002), Traders & Builders (2003), The Princess & The Dragon (2005), The Tower (2006), Abbey &…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Bruno Cathala, Bruno Faidutti / Matagot / 2015 Player Count / Playtime: 2 Players / 30 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Fighting, Action Selection, Action Points, Hand Management, Grid Movement, Take That Raptor is one of my favorite two-player games. It’s fast, tense, and full of clever decision making. Also, who…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Alex Hague, Jon Perry, Justin Vickers / CMYK / 2022 Player Count / Playtime: 1-4 Players / 30 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Push Your Luck, Card Game, Dice, Animals Reminds Me Of: Dairyman (2016) Spots is a game where, as the publisher puts it best, “dogs have spots,…

Designer / Publisher / Year: Jose Joaquin Bernal / Doit Games / 2024 Player Count / Playtime: 1-6 Players / 45-180 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Racing, Sports, Dice, Simulation, Grid Movement Kickstarter Components: The Pole Position Kickstarter stretch goals added extra drivers and teams for more variety, new overtaking dice to enhance race interactions, a blue…

Designer / Publisher / Year: Fernando Eduardo Sanchez / 2Tomatoes Games / 2024 Player Count / Playtime: 1-4 Players / 45-90 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Worker Placement, Events, Travel, Grid Movement, Personal Board Management, Adventure, Exploration Kickstarter Components: The Kickstarter edition of Through Ice and Snow comes with a handful of upgraded and bonus components that…

Designer / Publisher / Year: Jamie Bloom / Bad Comet / 2023 Player Count / Playtime: 1-4 Players / 60-150 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Set Collection, Pattern Building, Tile Placement, Engine Building, Puzzle, Animals, Family Kickstarter Components: Upgrade Base Components: 42 Wooden Trees, 42 Wooden Aquatic Flowers, 16 Wooden Seeds, 5 Wooden Completion Tokens, and 8…

Designer / Publisher / Year: Uwe Rosenberg / Feuerland Spiele / 2020 Player Count / Playtime: 1-5 Players / 30-60 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Abstract, Puzzle, Grid Coverage, Tile Placement, Animals New York Zoo is a light strategy board game where players are building their own zoo by fitting oddly shaped enclosure tiles into a personal…