Posts By Nick Dubs
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223FeaturesBest of Gen Con 2024- Better late than never edition
Convention season was very intense in 2024, with GamingTrend attending more tabletop cons than any other year prior. In fact, we went...
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1.4KReviewsRiver of Gold review — Rollin’ on a golden river
You know how sometimes you sit down to a new game not expecting too much, only to be blown away by every...
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1.4KReviewsHarrow County: The Game of Gothic Conflict & Fair Folk expansion review — Cube tower of terror
To me, “thematic” is a borderline dirty word. Playing too many early American designs that favored turning you into the DiCaprio pointing...
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1.4KReviewsRoot review — A perspective after five years in the woods
It used to be that asymmetrical wargames were a niche part of the hobby, a subcategory of weird kids right next to...
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688PreviewsTech Race Kickstarter preview—Hyperloopin’ Louie
In the near future, Silicon Valley has continued to only succeed in driving demand for their ideas, not actually bringing them to...
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961Tabletop ThrowdownGen Con 2024 Preview!—Tabletop Throwdown S1E11
We’re back and about to go to Gen Con! Join us as we talk about games we are excited about seeing at...
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2.5KReviewsBasketboss review— Cardboard manager
My family’s from Kentucky, so I was fated to at least tangentially care about basketball. When I saw Basketboss on our review...
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2.1KReviewsGoblin Vaults review— It’s a clever little goblin
I’m bored to tears of playing essentially the same game over and over again. It’s easy to point the finger at Euros...
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3.7KReviewsUnmatched: Slings & Arrows review— Outrageously good
There’s a lot of public domain characters that I would’ve expected to see pop up in Unmatched before I saw Shakespeare and...
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3.0KReviewsMatch of the Century review— Make me a match
I could never really nail down the complete game of chess. The early and mid game, when the board still has a...
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3.0KReviewsUnsolved Case Files:Jane Doe review — Plain Jane
There’s a ritual I undergo before I play a mystery game. You need the proper weather- some sort of gloom, a reason...
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1.7KReviewsKapow! Volume 1 review— Zip! bop! wham! etc!
There’s a famous Splotter saying that’s been paraphrased to if you can’t lose a game on the first turn, why do you...
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6.6KReviewsGloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs review — Cute as a button, sharp as a tack
As much as I’ve enjoyed Gloomhaven (I’m currently going through another campaign with a few friends that never got to play an...
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1.5KReviewsSpicy review— Fascinated by this shiny BS
After falling in love with Kutnà Hora and now developing a deep appreciation for Spicy, it has come to my attention that...
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1.5KReviewsMy Shelfie review — Don’t be a square, put the squares in the square
As much as my collection has exploded since I started reviewing and didn’t stop buying my own games, there’s been a niche...
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1.5KReviewsTribes of the Wind review —Nausicaä of the valley of the windriders
Rebuilding civilization after its collapse has become a popular theme in board games recently, and it makes sense that climate anxiety has...
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1.4KReviewsVirtual Revolution review — Servers temporarily offline
Have you ever picked up a weird indie game as part of a humble bundle, gotten around to playing it, and been...
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1.8KReviewsAQUA review— Don’t submerge the tiles, I tried.
Spatial puzzle games have become intrinsic to the hobby. Ever since polyominoes caught fire with Patchwork, NMBR 9, and Feast for Odin,...
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1.5KReviewsSpace Lion: Divide and Conquer review — Give me space, I need to lie down
It’s hard to not love Air, Land & Sea and its mobile counterpart, Marvel Snap. Both have expanded upon the 2 player...
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1.3KPreviewsRebuilding Chicago preview — New city, same old fire
Easily my favorite part of attending cons is the off chance of running into the people behind my favorite stuff. At PAXU...
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1.9KReviewsArk Nova: Marine Worlds review— Waterworlds
In my opinion, there are three things that a good expansion can do: be a physical game patch to fix some issues...
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1.7KReviewsFangs review — Blood for the teeth god
Fangs is Kosmos’ reprint of Shadow Hunters, one of my favorite social deduction games from the olden times that I never got...
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1.9KReviewsStarship Captains review — Trar Stek the board game
Sandbox games are a genre I’ve never hit it off with- I’ve had enough jobs that amounted to running around and doing...
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2.7KReviewsUnmatched: Sun’s Origin review— Original son
Since I was educated in America, my world history knowledge is embarrassingly eurocentric. I’ve attempted to correct that as an adult, but...
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2.1KReviewsAir, Land, and Sea: Critters at War review— In defense of a cute lick of paint
I knew Air Land and Sea was an awesome game, but it never made its way into my collection. Why? Well, I’ve...
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3.1KReviewsUnmatched: Brains and Brawn review — Strange and marvelous
I haven’t really gotten deep into the Marvel sets of Unmatched. It’s not that I’m necessarily against them in theory, I just...
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2.8KReviewsArtisans of Splendent Vale review— Splendid!
Artisans of Splendent Vale is one of those strange amalgams that is just different enough from anything else you’ve seen that it...
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2.0KReviewsSkymines review — Asteroids are just a bunch of balls in the air
When you first look at the sheer volume of mechanics in Skymines, you’d probably think it’s overwrought and busy. There’s programming, hand...
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1.6KNewsRavensburger announces 2024 plans for Disney Lorcana
For those of you who’ve been living under a cardstock rock, Disney Lorcana has been one of the more prolific TCG releases...
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5.3KReviewsKutnà Hora: The City of Silver review — Silver is the new brass
I love Brass: Birmingham. The high interactivity combined with how well it rewards tweezing out every last mote of efficiency is crazy...
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3.7KReviewsDungeons & Dragons: Trials of Tempus review — The god of unmet potential
Credit where it’s due, Trials of Tempus is certainly an ambitious title. For his debut, lead designer Thor Knai tossed Dungeons &...
