Chris Hinkes

Round up your adventuring party and your pencil in Paper Dungeons, a roll-and-write dungeon scrawler game. Each player has their own dungeon sheet with a matching setup, including walls, monsters, and treasure. Players have their own unique class and secret objective to make sure their dungeon routing won’t be

Fantastic Factories is a light tableau building card game with dice. Players first have a market phase, where they get to draft a card. Then, all players can simultaneously roll their dice and run their factory. Whoever can build and run the best factory will win by collecting the most

At its core, Wild Tiled West is a tile drafting and placement game. It mixes in dice rolling, resources, and a little competition to make a fun, medium weight game. The game is played over 16 rounds. Each round, a number of dice are rolled equal to one more than

At Gen Con Indy 2023 I had the opportunity to spend some time in the First Exposure Playtest Hall.  There were dozens of games being playtested every two hours each day and I was able to play a small sample of them.  These are all games that are in varying

I had an opportunity to play a full game of Sky Team with another GamingTrend editor on the last day of the convention. I was really interested in trying it ever since finding out about it only a few days earlier. It is a two player only cooperative game about

Joyride: Survival of the Fastest is an upcoming game by Rebellion Unplugged, designed by Duncan Malloy and Pete Ward with art by Pye Parr. In a high tech, low budget future players will be racing around the track in their vehicles while ramming and attacking their opponents in an attempt

Queen by Midnight lets up to six players compete to be the last one standing in a vicious battle royale before the clock strikes 12. Clearly meant to be visually impressive, the game’s centerpiece is a rotating clock that acts as a round timer, dice tower, and card market.

While at Gen Con 2023, we were able to get a look at Kinfire Chronicles along with a sneak peek at two more upcoming games from Incredible Dream. Kinfire Chronicles is a cooperative adventure game for up to four players that was designed to be immersive and friendly to newer