Nick Dubs

As the market for gateway games becomes increasingly flooded, publishers have to find a way to make their titles stand out from the crowd. For Cape May, Thunderworks attempted the flagship economic gateway title, an intersection of gaming categories that’s already rather rare. Every part of the design and

I walked away from my base game Crusaders review feeling there was a good game in there somewhere, but there were too many pain points for me to like it. Now that I’m reviewing the expansion, the question is: does it transform the ugly duckling into a swan? Well,

The moment I opened That Time You Killed Me, I had a bone to pick with it. Like most board gamers, I have a ritual around my new games. I had moved my office table and opened my drawer of baggies, ready to punch some cardboard and organize the bits

Crusaders wears its inspiration on its sleeve. In the rule book, Seth Jaffee stops just short of naming Feld’s legendary Trajan and its core rondel mancala hybrid mechanic. Trajan is the heaviest of heavy euros, with its six separate subgames and multi-colored mancala tokens that activate bonuses if they

Racing is a weird genre in board games. It feels as if one day in the last decade all the big names got on a conference call and agreed that racing is for filthy casuals, because, with a few noticeable exceptions, racing games have been the hobby’s red-headed stepchild.

Orichalcum is a game having an identity crisis. Its production, from artwork to components, suggests that it’s a family weight game. But then you play it and see the opportunity for players who grasp the mechanics to totally embarrass those that don’t, so maybe it’s a lightweight

What makes a board game great? You’d think that as a game reviewer, I’d have a clever, and concise answer to that question. The truth is however, that answer changes from person to person. For people whose collections span multiple sets of shelves, Brass is an excellent game.

Caesar places its two players in the sandals of Caesar and Pompey, vying for influence in the final days of the Roman republic before the transition to empire. It isn’t particularly innovative, nor will it blow anyone’s mind. What it is is area control honed down to its