Nick plays and reviews board games to kill time while it cultivates the requisite mystique to become a cryptid that warns small towns of impending doom.
Last year, WizKids released Ramp It Up, the follow-up to their wildly popular roll and write Super Skill Pinball. I was extremely impressed at how the box fleshed out the
Growing up, a lot of the games I had were gimmicky dexterity games with titles that played on common phrases. Ants in Your Pants, where you flicked little plastic ants
As the years go on and my board game collection balloons, I am forced to refine my criteria for picking up a game, along with continuous culling, to keep my
If you’re reading this, I feel comfortable assuming that you’ve played the introductory route-building game Ticket to Ride. It’s certainly fun enough that I don’t hate
As players of Cthulhu Wars can tell you, a strong table presence can make even a lightweight game hit like a truck. The game by itself is certainly fun, but
It’s been several years since I last played the classic cowboy social deduction game BANG!. Although it did a few things rather well, its faults shone harder as the
My family isn’t exactly chock-full of avid board gamers. While it’s never hard to get something simple enough to the table, the later episodes of My City where
If you asked me to summarize the experience of playing Batman: Everybody Lies, I would tell you it felt like someone wrote a mystery set in Gotham City and made
A little over two years ago, my favorite card game ever died. Oversimplified by one of my friends as “Hearthstone on a grid,” Duelyst’s servers were shut down, and
Publishers Gale Force Nine recently released Wise Guys, an unlicensed reimplementation of their sleeper hit Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem. The core gameplay is essentially unchanged; players start rounds
