Category: Reviews

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…

Designer / Publisher / Year: Johan Benvenuto / Libellud / 2024 Player Count / Playtime: 1-4 Players / 30-45 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Abstract, Family, Puzzle, Animals, Pattern Building, Set Collection Reminds Me Of: Cascadia (2021), Life of the Amazonia (2023) Harmonies is a calm, pattern building board game where players create a landscape by…

Designer / Publisher / Year: Bruno Cathala and Theo Riviere / Pandasaurus Games / 2022 Player Count / Playtime: 2-4 Players / 30-45 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Card Game, Hand Management, Set Collection, Push Your Luck Expansions: Sea Salt & Paper: Extra Salt, Sea Salt & Paper: Extra Pepper Sea Salt & Paper is one of those…

Designer / Publisher / Year: Uwe Rosenberg / Lookout Games / 2016 Player Count / Playtime: 1-4 Players / 30-120 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Eurogame, Strategy, Farming, Economic, Animals, Worker Placement, Hand Management Expansions: Agricola: Artifex Deck (2016), Agricola: Bubulcus Deck (2016), Agricola: Corbarius Deck (2017), Agricola: Dulcinaria Deck (2017), Agricola: Consul Dirigens Deck (2018), Agricola:…

Designer / Publisher / Year: Ananda Gupta and Jason Matthews / GMT Games / 2005 Player Count / Playtime: 2 Players / 120-180 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Wargame, Strategy, Political, Area Influence, Dice Rolling, Hand Management Twilight Struggle is a two-player game simulating the forty-five year Cold War, a tense dance of intrigue, prestige, and occasional…

Designer / Publisher / Year: Elizabeth Hargrave / Stonemaier Games / 2019 Player Count / Playtime: 1-5 Players / 40-70 mins Genre / Type:  Strategy, Engine Building, Card Game, Set Collection, Open Drafting, Hand Management, Animals Expansions: Wingspan: European Expansion (2019), Wingspan: Oceania Expansion (2020), Wingspan Asia (2022), Wingspan: Fan Art Pack (2020), Wingspan: Nesting Box (2022),…

Designers / Publisher / Year: Daniel Dranove and Tom Weiner / Medium Brow Games / 2024 Player Count / Playtime: 2–4 Players / 60-120 mins Genre / Type / Mechanics: Euro, Economic, Territory Building, Farming, Animals, Negotiation Kickstarter Components: The Kickstarter stretch goals for Farms Race included the Exploding Mutation card, along with several added Spy Cards, most…