I have rather stringent rules for when I choose to sleeve one of my games, and as a result, I can count...
Making a dungeon crawler that both appeals to and is actually viable for everyone is the game design philosopher’s stone: a hypothetical...
Convention season was very intense in 2024, with GamingTrend attending more tabletop cons than any other year prior. In fact, we went...
You know how sometimes you sit down to a new game not expecting too much, only to be blown away by every...
To me, “thematic” is a borderline dirty word. Playing too many early American designs that favored turning you into the DiCaprio pointing...
It used to be that asymmetrical wargames were a niche part of the hobby, a subcategory of weird kids right next to...
In the near future, Silicon Valley has continued to only succeed in driving demand for their ideas, not actually bringing them to...
We’re back and about to go to Gen Con! Join us as we talk about games we are excited about seeing at...
My family’s from Kentucky, so I was fated to at least tangentially care about basketball. When I saw Basketboss on our review...
I’m bored to tears of playing essentially the same game over and over again. It’s easy to point the finger at Euros...
There’s a lot of public domain characters that I would’ve expected to see pop up in Unmatched before I saw Shakespeare and...
I could never really nail down the complete game of chess. The early and mid game, when the board still has a...
There’s a ritual I undergo before I play a mystery game. You need the proper weather- some sort of gloom, a reason...
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...
As much as I’ve enjoyed Gloomhaven (I’m currently going through another campaign with a few friends that never got to play an...
After falling in love with Kutnà Hora and now developing a deep appreciation for Spicy, it has come to my attention that...
As much as my collection has exploded since I started reviewing and didn’t stop buying my own games, there’s been a niche...
Rebuilding civilization after its collapse has become a popular theme in board games recently, and it makes sense that climate anxiety has...
Have you ever picked up a weird indie game as part of a humble bundle, gotten around to playing it, and been...
Spatial puzzle games have become intrinsic to the hobby. Ever since polyominoes caught fire with Patchwork, NMBR 9, and Feast for Odin,...
It’s hard to not love Air, Land & Sea and its mobile counterpart, Marvel Snap. Both have expanded upon the 2 player...
Easily my favorite part of attending cons is the off chance of running into the people behind my favorite stuff. At PAXU...
In my opinion, there are three things that a good expansion can do: be a physical game patch to fix some issues...
Fangs is Kosmos’ reprint of Shadow Hunters, one of my favorite social deduction games from the olden times that I never got...
Sandbox games are a genre I’ve never hit it off with- I’ve had enough jobs that amounted to running around and doing...
Since I was educated in America, my world history knowledge is embarrassingly eurocentric. I’ve attempted to correct that as an adult, but...
I knew Air Land and Sea was an awesome game, but it never made its way into my collection. Why? Well, I’ve...
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...
Artisans of Splendent Vale is one of those strange amalgams that is just different enough from anything else you’ve seen that it...
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...
For those of you who’ve been living under a cardstock rock, Disney Lorcana has been one of the more prolific TCG releases...