Every year, thousands of new games come out. Sure, not everything might be relevant for you, but even filtering those out still leaves you with hundreds and hundreds of potentially interesting new games to try. Some are duds, some are great, but one thing is certain: we don’t have a shortage of games to enjoy, …
Ever wondered what it takes to print a custom playmat? Well, me too! From time to time, I had seen the occasional post on BGG and idly wondered how complicated it would be and what level of quality one could hope for. At the same time, I’m not the biggest fan of playmats. They are …
I bought Kanban EV so long ago that I can’t even remember what made me aware of it in the first place. Maybe I saw it in the BGG top games ranking (currently at an impressive number 46) or in No Pun Included’s excellent review of it, I don’t know. What I do still remember …
Well, I’ve been thinking about starting a Patreon as a sort of free newsletter for a while now and as always, it took a kind reader to push me over the edge 😀 patreon.com/TalkingShelfSpace As you might or might not know, I write about board games as a hobby with no intention to make money …
I’m not an 18xx aficionado. To tell the truth, I’m not even much of a train gamer. Besides a single play of 1830: Railways & Robber Barons (which I didn’t enjoy) and a handful of attempts at Age of Steam (which I’m slowly warming up to but still far from in love with), my experience …
Read more “First Impressions of Railways of the Lost Atlas – 18xx for the Rest of Us”
I usually don’t do previews. Heck, I’ve even kindly declined designers who wanted to help me out with review copies. After all, writing about board games is a hobby for me and I fear more the pressure of having to write about some game I might end up not enjoying than having to waste my …
Read more “Preview of World Order — Elegantly Treading a Very Thin Line”
I like Vital Lacerda’s games: Kanban EV is still one of my all time favourites, I previously wrote about Inventions: Evolution of Ideas, and by now I was fortunate to have either played or owned most of his big box titles. One that unfortunately hadn’t struck a cord with me was the fan-favourite The Gallerist, …
Read more “Review of House of Fado – It Swings Baby, It Swings!”
Sometimes a game just hits you. It scratches an itch you didn’t know you had, like when I first played Horseless Carriage and its spatial puzzle just completely fried my brain. It was too complex a system for me to understand, too many things to think through, and so I gave up, had fun, and …
Read more “First impressions of Rival Cities – Multi-Dimensional Tug of War”
I just got Rival Cities in the other day and thought it would have been great if a solo mode would have been in the box. Since there isn’t, I of course started creating one myself 😀 This is still in development, but it plays surprisingly well for a first attempt. I will continue to tweak …
The last couple of days, I’ve been enamoured with Rival Cities, the new 2p games from Andreas Steding (also the designer of Hansa Teutonica). It’s a clever, has a beautiful production, but I had one minor gripe with: sliding the court case cards down the line and managing the cardboard tracks next to them is …