Sol: Last Days of a Star board game

Review of Sol: Last Days of a Star – We Already Screwed It Up This Far, So …

Sometimes it’s funny why you end up buying one particular game over the many, many others that are out there. I discovered the classic Grand Austria Hotel for no other reason than it was on sale at a bookstore and I thought “never heard of it, but it’s Lookout Games, let’s give it a try”. …

House of Fado board game

Review of House of Fado – It Swings Baby, It Swings!

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, …

Kingdom Legacy Distant Lands

Review of Kingdom Legacy: Distant Lands – Onwards to New Horizons

The base game of Kingdom Legacy, Kingdom Legacy: Feudal Kingdom, has been one of my favourite solo experiences of 2024. As a small package of 140 card deck and some stickers, it is affordable yet packs a mighty punch. In 3-4 hours, you’ll build your kingdom from untouched grasslands to castles with knights, astronomers and …

Flamme Rouge Grand Tour

Review of Flamme Rouge Grand Tour – A Beautiful Swan Song

After much waiting and a couple of false news alerts, the latest expansion for bike racing game Flamme Rouge is finally really here: Grand Tour is available for purchase. For some unknown reason, this expansion has been multiple years in the making – or rather waiting as there were multiple times where it looked like …

Kingdom Legacy

Review of Kingdom Legacy: Feudal Kingdom – Honey, I Shrunk The Kingdom

October 2024, SPIEL Essen, one day before the convention opens. I’m browsing through the novelty show, a press-only event that’s basically all new releases cramped into one convention hall. Each game has about 30-40cm of table width, maybe less, and the hall is buzzing with representatives of the publishers pitching their games as well as …

Pandemic Rising Tide

Review of Pandemic: Rising Tide – You Saved the World, but Can You Save the Netherlands?

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 …