Chris Hinkes

Robot Quest Arena combines deck building with tactical arena combat. Matches can either be free for all or teams, with the goal being to have the most victory points after a certain number of robot deaths. Victory points are primarily earned through dealing damage to opponents. Players use energy that

Tesseract is a cooperative puzzle game. An alien cube has appeared in the sky and begun collapsing in on itself rapidly. As humanity’s top scientists, you must solve the mystery of the cube before it collapses completely, taking our planet with it! While Tesseract can be played solo by

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