In Stonespine Architects, you play as minotaurs competing to build the best dungeon, flipping the classic Greek myth in an amusing way. Players draft cards, stock up on monsters and traps, and work to fulfill the requirements on challenge cards, all in an attempt to build the best dungeon ever
Granny Hortensia has died, and on the eve of the next blood moon, appears before her four grandkids and offers her entire estate to the one that can best keep her garden. That’s the theme of La Familia Hort, a somewhat spooky gardening game with some fantastic sort of Edward
In 2013 Z-Man Games brought us Bruges from Stefan Feld. It is considered, by many, to be the best game Feld has ever produced. Well, Bruges is back baby! It has been re-released as Hamburg, the first game in the Queen Games City Collection. With this new version, Stefan has
Confusing Lands is a one or two player, eighteen card, microgame where players draft landscape cards and overlap them to create floating islands while trying to score the most points. This quick to learn card game has only a single page of rules but features a lot of depth. This
A detailed review of Sirens, a quick and compact card drafting game for one or two players where you get to play around in some of the most famous Greek myths. You can either play as competing sirens trying to lure the most boats onto the rocks, or go solo
Hold the crown, win the game! Power, glory, and wealth await the ‘righteous’ Goblin Ruler, the one to have a hold on the crooked crown by the end of the squabble. The Crooked Crown is a somewhat nasty take-that card game where players will be spying, feasting, bluffing, stealing, and
Build a coalition of subjects and become the king’s head advisor in the card drafting game King’s Coalition from newer board game publisher Play to Z, You only have six rounds to create the best hand possible but watch out as the king’s desires change like the weather and you
It’s 1944 and the world is at war! In a bedroom in Brooklyn a boy is taken to The Dark by the Boogeyman, and it’s up to you, his favourite toys, to save him. The problem is, at least one of the toys has fallen sway to the Boogeyman’s wiles.
War in the empire! Karl Franz is dead, who will replace him as Emperor? Decide the fate of the Old World in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Elector Counts An Old World Card Game. Despite being right in the title, this card game has nothing to do with the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Star Tycoon is a space themed, engine building, economic game that features a fluctuating market. The capitalistic themes are looked at in a tongue in cheek way, and multiple pre-game randomizers keep the game fresh. I’m a fan of economic games in general, so don’t take it lightly when I
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