The first time we played Mistwind was a year ago at Gen Con 2022. Even in that early state it had quite the table presence — the flying whales, a large map board with lines connecting several small islands to each other, the numbers one through five on each side of
A startup CEO of an AR/VR company and a tech journalist may seem like unusual backgrounds for a design team for a board/card game, but Avi Setton and Tanya Basu figured it was just perfect, and the debut game of their new company Le Fou, Picky Eaters, is
One of the most hotly anticipated games of the year is Stonemaier Games’ Expeditions, the standalone sequel to Jamey Stegmaier and Jakub Rozalski’s 2016 monster hit, Scythe. While Expeditions shares more than just an aesthetic and narrative with its forebear, it is honestly a quite different experience to Scythe,
I will be the first to admit that I am drawn into a game’s aesthetic to a fault, at times. That the way a game looks can sometimes override concerns of how it might play. The allure of deluxe components or metal coins; these things are utter catnip to
We take another deep dive into the mechanics of An Age Contrived, this time with the player board/transmuter device. The transmuter device is the primary means by which players interact with the game- how they take their turns. In this video, we go over the five action tiles on
We took a few minutes to chat with An Age Contrived’s Lead Designer and Founder of Bellows Intent, Chris Matthew, and found out a few things about what inspired him to make the game, and bringing customization to the tabletop space.
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In An Age Contrived, players take on the roles of gods ruling over the realm of Eldranir, influencing the mortal tribes to construct enduring structures in their honor. Building these monuments piece by piece and how you use your energy tokens afterwards represents some of the most crucial mechanics of
When Gooey Cube revealed themselves to the world at Gen Con in 2019, nobody was quite prepared for how lush and dense the Fifth Edition campaign setting The Wy’rded World of Zyathé would become. Now they are back with a new Kickstarter, offering their trademark premium game experiences in
