I have a soft spot for Role-Playing Game Boxed Sets and today I'm going to deep dive into my most recent acquisition, the Shadowrun Sixth World Beginner Box.
Quodd Heroes is a rather unique board game. It's almost more of a boardgame toolkit designed to let you recreate the feel of platform and competitive video games.
One recent change in the board game hobby is that we are now seeing a number of excellent licenced board games. By which I mean fantastic, fun to play, games that are based on an existing property. For years boardgames based on an established licence were mostly trash. Jaws is the perfect example of a modern licenced board game, a game that lives up to its name and is a great game at the same time.
Katana: Samurai Action Card Game which was self-published by Tracy Alan after a successful Kickstarter is a non-collectable card game for two players.
The escape room phenomenon seems to have really taken off, with rooms popping up all over the world. Along with this there have been a number of "escape room in a box" games released. Escape Mail seems to be the next step, an escape room experience delivered by mail.
In today's board game review, I look at a boardgame with a unique worker placement system that also combines bidding using influence, Bastille from Queen Games.
I have been a fan of Lost Cities, the two-player card game by Reiner Knizia, for a very long time. When I was offered a chance to check out Lost Cities: Rivals, a two to four player revision of this classic card game, I jumped at the chance.
One of the things that surprised me the most about Codenames Duet is that it is not just a two-player cooperative word guessing game, it's actually a team-based cooperative game that can be played with two or more players.
When I first unboxed Super Cats, a three to six player filler card game from The Op, I was totally confused.
Thanks to Daily Magic Games I got a chance to check out a prototype of their latest Valeria game, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria. This dice driven, engine building, worker placement board game is due to hit Kickstarter in early July.
