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Set A Watch – Defend against encroaching creatures with onerous dice placement

Thematically, ‘Set A Watch’ sets the stage fairly well; after a day of adventuring, your party of adventurers survive against the darkness, battling against creatures while trying forestall the return

By Eric Ace

/ 15 Aug 2023

Set A Watch – Defend against encroaching creatures with onerous dice placement

The LOOP – Co-op deck building action of trying to close down a time loop

The LOOP is a cooperative deck builder where players take the role of time traveling agents sent to stop a villain from completing a destructive time travel loop. Using an

By Eric Ace

/ 18 May 2023

The LOOP – Co-op deck building action of trying to close down a time loop

My Little Pony: Adventures in Equestria Deck-Building Game – A Co-op deck builder that is too demanding for kids

My Little Pony: Adventures in Equestria Deck-Building Game is a cooperative deck builder game where players take turns trying to build up their deck while facing down increasing challenges before

By Eric Ace

/ 3 Apr 2023

My Little Pony: Adventures in Equestria Deck-Building Game – A Co-op deck builder that is too demanding for kids

Avatar The Last Airbender: Fire Nation Rising – Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked

Avatar The Last Airbender: Fire Nation Rising is a cooperative game where players build up a team of characters while they try to fight villains and have a showdown to

By Eric Ace

/ 3 Jan 2023

Star Scrappers: Orbital – Building a space station one card at a time

Before Terraforming Mars was a huge hit, Jacob Fryxelius had a far more humble game called Space Station that involved taking turns putting down various ‘modules’ that represent things like

By Eric Ace

/ 22 Dec 2022

Star Scrappers: Orbital – Building a space station one card at a time

Massive Darkness 2 – Lightbringers heading straight into Hell

Massive Darkness 2 is a co-op dungeon crawler for 1 to 6 players. Players pick from different classes of ‘Lightbringers’ that head into hell to defeat the various demons threatening

By Eric Ace

/ 15 Nov 2022

Massive Darkness 2 – Lightbringers heading straight into Hell

Summoner Wars (Second Edition) review – Two summoners enter a pit…

Summoner Wars (Second Edition) is a 2 player game that is a remake of the previously released game of the same title where players summon various creatures represented by cards

By Eric Ace

/ 26 Sep 2022

Summoner Wars (Second Edition) review – Two summoners enter a pit…

Lunar Outpost — Like our moon, it’s a good gateway to bigger and better things

Lunar Outpost is a 2-4 player strategy game where players take on the role of different astronauts in charge of building a moon base in a limited number of turns.

By Eric Ace

/ 23 Aug 2022

Lunar Outpost — Like our moon, it’s a good gateway to bigger and better things

Cartographers Heroes – A map drawing game that ironically needs help to find its core self

For a game about making maps, Cartographer Heroes has some issues finding itself. Sitting down to play, there are some great fantastical elements of drawing and creating a fantasy kingdom,

By Eric Ace

/ 26 Jul 2022

Cartographers Heroes – A map drawing game that ironically needs help to find its core self

Mystic Vale: Essential Edition review ⏤ A deck building game where you also build each individual card

Mystic Vale: Essential Edition is a 2-4 player game where players slowly modify their deck by modifying their very cards through see-through inserts that ‘over write’ the card through their

By Eric Ace

/ 12 Apr 2022

Mystic Vale: Essential Edition review ⏤ A deck building game where you also build each individual card

Resident Evil 3: Board Game + City of Ruin review ⏤ A survival horror battle between source material and game play

Resident Evil 3 is a 1-4 player campaign style board game based off the PlayStation 1 game, that has players navigate zombie-filled streets in a tactical fashion while constantly dealing

By Eric Ace

/ 30 Dec 2021

Resident Evil 3: Board Game + City of Ruin review ⏤ A survival horror battle between source material and game play

Wild Space review⏤A tableau builder that is anything but wild

Wild Space is a short 30-minute game with players laying cards down in a tableau very reminiscent of ‘Race for the Galaxy’. From the company Pandasaurus, Wild Space sees players

By Eric Ace

/ 13 Oct 2021

Wild Space review⏤A tableau builder that is anything but wild