I’ve published my Recommendations For Solo Board Games in 2023 over a year ago and it has been surprisingly popular. So I guess it’s time to do an update and throw out some new recommendations based on games I reviewed, new additions to the collection, and classics I got back to the table in the …
The Kickstarter project Rise & Fall is currently in fulfilment and it comes with a ton of components. There is also additional packing material in the box to protect all the wooden pieces during shipping, which can make it confusing to get everything back in the box. This small guide hopefully will help you find …
Sometimes, surprisingly, the BGG games market can be a source of inspiration for me what newly released games to try. With every pre-order or crowd funding project that is being fulfilled, someone inevitably will have had their life situation changed between backing and receiving a project … or they found that they didn’t get what …
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Ah, Kickstarter, you gotta love it. Sure, we all had our fair share of duds over the years but overall it’s always been an enjoyable spectacle for me. From the videos listing upcoming games to the hype-inducing previews that more often than not made me wonder “what were they thinking?” when I held the final …
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After playing the original Pandemic for over ten years, struggling with mutating viruses and terrorists in Pandemic: On the Brink, and upending the usual way to cure things with Pandemic: In the Lab, the prospect of digging into another version of the all to familiar Pandemic seemed daunting to me. Pandemic has rightfully become a …
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In recent years, board games have made some giant leaps when it comes to their production. Just look at an ICE or Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies, they are pieces of art! Despite my interest in Lacerda games and fondness of Foundations of Rome, I’ve come to dread giant Kickstarter productions though. Sure, they might look …
Have you ever thought about the effects of pollution in medieval Italy? I sure hadn’t. But Joris and Jeroen – better known as Dutch design duo / boutique publisher Splotter Spellen – definitely have! And as always, they ended up with a game that is challenging, punishing, and quite different than anything else out there. …
Expansions are always tricky to write about. Some of you might never have played the base game and be curious to learn if the combined game is now something they should check out. Others already have played the base game extensively and come with a whole range of expectations what an expansion should and should …
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So Antiquity from Joris & Jeroen (a.k.a. Splotter Spellen) is an amazing game. But it comes included with a free mini game I like to call “how many bowls can you find in your apartment?”. There are so many bits and bops to get out and put on the table that it made me wonder: …
There are a number of issues I had with Foundations of Rome‘s solo mode “Gardens of Ceres”, chief among them that Ceres doesn’t integrate some essential aspects of the multiplayer experience and that it only comes with cardboard tiles where everything else in the game is a nicely designed miniature. I already tried to address …
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