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.
For those of you who’ve been living under a cardstock rock, Disney Lorcana has been one of the more prolific TCG releases of 2023, and earlier today, publisher Ravensburger
I love Brass: Birmingham. The high interactivity combined with how well it rewards tweezing out every last mote of efficiency is crazy fun. However, it’s also opaque to the
Credit where it’s due, Trials of Tempus is certainly an ambitious title. For his debut, lead designer Thor Knai tossed Dungeons & Dragons, MOBAs, and skirmish miniatures games into
Ever since I bought my first Unmatched set back when Battle of Legends dropped, I’ve been screaming from the rooftops about how good the game is, and with a
Many board games are designed from the floor up to ape other media and end up being mediocre at best. Nemesis is the Alien franchise in a box, but couldn’
To be perfectly honest, I don’t know how best to classify Molly House, Wherlegig’s latest cardboard masterpiece. I feel like I’m describing the subgenre of my favorite
Playing Big Boss for review has been the board game version of going to colonial Williamsburg or any other historical reenactment. I’ve been helping Mike get plays of the
Say what you will about crowdfunding, it has really helped drag board game production out of the stone age of beige spreadsheets into something that looks professional and doesn’t
On paper, La Famiglia has all the makings for a home run. Just looking at the companies involved, it’s another Feuerland/ Capstone import, the combo that brought us the
In many ways, Terra Mystica is the quintessence of a middle-heavyweight eurogame from back when they were becoming more mainstream in the hobby. It’s got a lot going
I’m pretty over pure deck builders. I’ve been playing them since the OGs Dominion, Ascension, and Thunderstone came out in the late 2000’s, and as a result,
Recently, I started watching The Wire for the first time. I know, I should have watched it forever ago, but it was just one of those things that everyone kept
