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Reviews   -   Mar 14, 2023 Till the Last Gasp review — Missing the point
Till the Last Gasp review — Missing the point

The duel: two combatants enter, one combatant leaves.  That is the basic premise of Till the Last Gasp, a two player collaborative storytelling board game from publisher Derrington Press. To start, each player will either choose a character from the provided set of characters, or choose to make their own.

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Reviews   -   Feb 28, 2023 Deal with the Devil review — The worth of a soul
Deal with the Devil review — The worth of a soul

The world is clawing its way out of centuries of barbarism and religious stricture, and our little game centers on 4 particular kingdoms. Two of these kingdoms are led by mortals with few resources, but a great hunger for power. Another is the domain of a cult and eager to

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Reviews   -   Jan 29, 2023 In Too Deep review — In the deep end
In Too Deep review — In the deep end

New Dawn City is under attack.  The insidious Syndicate has set its sights on the last bastion of order in the not-so-distant future, and has sent its cyborg minions to take over your fair city.  It’s up to you, a team of hackers utilizing an experimental system, to hack

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Previews   -   Jan 27, 2023 AEGIS: Second Ignition preview — And I’ll form the head!
AEGIS: Second Ignition preview — And I’ll form the head!

Giant robots were my childhood, from watching Voltron and Transformers on early Saturday mornings to Gundam Wing on late nights, there was nothing cooler than a giant robot punching another giant robot.  Unless those giant robots also combined into an even bigger, cooler robot!  And that, of course, is the

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Reviews   -   Jan 13, 2023 Rise review — Getting on track
Rise review — Getting on track

Rise is a board game about tracks.  No, not railroad tracks, though it is a game set in the industrial era.  We’re talking about progress tracks.  The game has 12 in all, and the way they interact is, surprisingly, quite interesting. Rise puts players in the shoes of aspiring

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Reviews   -   Jan 13, 2023 Viticulture World review — Every country is wine country
Viticulture World review — Every country is wine country

Wine is enjoyed across the entire world, though those disparate cultures’ relationship with wine is very different. Viticulture: World is dedicated to exploring how wine impacts different parts of the world, and how those differences impact how that wine is made. Viticulture World is a co-operative expansion to Viticulture.  Much

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Previews   -   Nov 03, 2022 Tabriz Preview — Persian rug industrial complex
Tabriz Preview — Persian rug industrial complex

In ancient Persia, in its time the cultural center of the world, the art of making rugs was held as a high calling.  Persian rugs required materials from all over the empire, which were harvested, bought, sold and eventually found their way to the Great Bazaar of Tabriz, the beating

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Previews   -   Oct 02, 2022 BloodRunes preview — Favor of the gods
BloodRunes preview — Favor of the gods

Odin’s favor is waning. The runes speak. There are other tribes, other seers, who fight in this land, and only one can have the favor of the gods. BloodRunes is an upcoming board game from Zoracle Games for 1-4 players where you take on the role of rune-reading oracles

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