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.
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 it a multimedia multiplayer choose your own adventure with board game elements. You may counter that that is pretty lengthy
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 its unique level of tactical combat was gone from my life. I tried to scratch the itch with Plaid Hat’
The first thing I did when I got home with my copy of Unmatched: Jurassic Park- Dr. Sattler vs. T. Rex was run around the house with the T. Rex mini and have it mock bite everyone. I don’t care how old you are or where you land on
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 collecting orders, which they use to drive their gang to the game’s location tiles, start fights with rival gangs
Personally, I don’t have anything against Senators- well actually, the card art that looks like ancient Roman themed stock photos is a bit of a turn off. It’s a perfectly fine set collection auction game, but for the life of me, I can not provide a reason for
When I first saw Aristeia, I was extremely hyped. I had been wanting an introductory skirmish-level minis game in a box for a hot minute, and given that publisher Corvus Belli’s main title, Infinity, is inarguably one of the best games on that level, if a bit chunky on
Back in 2017, Wizkids came out with Fantasy Realms, a shorter game about optimizing scoring on a hand of cards that have interesting interactions. While I enjoyed the game, it definitely wasn’t without its share of faults, and I decided against picking it up for myself. Five years later
Recently, there has been a massive increase in both the number and quality of introductory board games. From Quacks of Quedlinburg, to My City, to Pan Am, there is a glut of games out there that I can put in front of my non-gamer friends and family that we will
