At this point you’ve probably gotten your fill of video games and hardware and gear, but now it’s time for some real...
Playing Big Boss for review has been the board game version of going to colonial Williamsburg or any other historical reenactment. I’ve...
Say what you will about crowdfunding, it has really helped drag board game production out of the stone age of beige spreadsheets...
On paper, La Famiglia has all the makings for a home run. Just looking at the companies involved, it’s another Feuerland/ Capstone...
In many ways, Terra Mystica is the quintessence of a middle-heavyweight eurogame from back when they were becoming more mainstream in the...
I’m pretty over pure deck builders. I’ve been playing them since the OGs Dominion, Ascension, and Thunderstone came out in the late...
Recently, I started watching The Wire for the first time. I know, I should have watched it forever ago, but it was...
I’m really not a fan of co-op games. There are a couple exceptions, like Gloomhaven and The Crew, but they are few...
As the market for gateway games becomes increasingly flooded, publishers have to find a way to make their titles stand out from...
I walked away from my base game Crusaders review feeling there was a good game in there somewhere, but there were too...
The moment I opened That Time You Killed Me, I had a bone to pick with it. Like most board gamers, I...
Crusaders wears its inspiration on its sleeve. In the rule book, Seth Jaffee stops just short of naming Feld’s legendary Trajan and...
Racing is a weird genre in board games. It feels as if one day in the last decade all the big names...
Orichalcum is a game having an identity crisis. Its production, from artwork to components, suggests that it’s a family weight game. But...
What makes a board game great? You’d think that as a game reviewer, I’d have a clever, and concise answer to that...
Caesar places its two players in the sandals of Caesar and Pompey, vying for influence in the final days of the Roman...
I love games with a good arc, so a well-done engine builder that takes you from barely having enough to do anything...
2022 was an amazing year for Gaming Trend’s tabletop team: We more than doubled our crew, reviewed more tabletop games than any...
Heading into PAXU, An Age Contrived was on my short list of upcoming titles to check out, based almost entirely upon its...
Every now and then, a game comes around that is so mechanically unique and interesting that I have to make room for...
In my continuing quest to collect games that work with both my non-gaming family and my gaming friends, finding Catherine was a...
There is a well-known subset of TTRPG players who are primarily interested in combat and acquiring loot colloquially known as murder hobos....
I had been faced with a dilemma when writing previous Unmatched reviews. Since each set is essentially a standalone expansion, should I...
I’m a self-described Knizia fanboy, so I was extremely excited when I saw we had received his newest design for review. As...
When this game first debuted a few years ago, I dismissed it out of hand. I was fatigued on the IP, and...
When Arrakis was first announced a few months ago as a reskin/redesign of an ’80s area control game named Borderlands, I was...
As a kid, I cut my board gaming teeth on American designs like Axis & Allies and various roll and moves, games...
At first look, Wormholes appears unassuming, but its svelte box comes jam-packed with my favorite pickup and deliver game on the market....
Dead Alive’s Bernie Lin initially pitched Omicron Protocol to me as the perfect introduction to the minis wargaming hobby, and boy was...
Seems like everyone’s publishing traditional card games with modern game design additions nowadays, and SCOUT is Oink! throwing its hat in the...
I’ve spent the better part of my free time time this past week or two in a cycle of rewriting and completely...