Posts By Sean Weeks
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1.5KReviewsFrostpunk 2 review — The death of millions is a statistic.
Introduction to the World of Frostpunk Frostpunk: The Video Game sports a steampunk coat of paint, the stylish, often meaningless brass cogs...
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1.3KReviewsJokkmokk: The Winter Market review — Vanished without a trace.
JokkMokk is a 1-5 player card snatchum about kitsch. I don’t mean that in a dour Anton Ego sort of way. I mean...
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1.4KReviewsZhanguo: The First Empire review — Tame the dragon; conquer Death.
I hate Caylus. I note that this is probably a bad opinion to own. My encounter with the World’s First Worker Placement™...
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18.2KInterviewsDesigner of Oath, Root, and Arcs — “I love games, but what I really love is play.”
The titles Root, Oath, Pax Pamir, Arcs, and John Company will most likely ring a bell for regular members of the tabletop...
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3.6KReviewsWizardry Remaster review — Do you like black-and-white movies?
Wizardry: Proving Ground of the Mad Overlord inhabits an odd space in the library of deluxe remasters. On the one hand, it’s...
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2.1KReviewsGridlock review — Rubik’s gains a lot by dropping a dimension.
I buy Rubik’s cubes at the supermarket out of guilt. The brain’s a muscle and I don’t always nourish it properly. When...
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2.3KReviewsGame Envy Exemplar Wet Palette review — Gamerfuel.
Product was not provided by the manufacturer for this review. “For thinning my paints, I use ordinary tap water…. [My] palette is...
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1.8KPreviewsCollectionomics preview — Redrawing the magic circle.
Civilization designer Sid Meier famously said, “Games are a series of interesting decisions.” If you strictly apply that to what you can...
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2.1KInterviewsInterview with Thunderworks Games — Making worlds twixt cardboard.
Thunderworks Games has a catalog with notably little repetition. Many publishers marshal a sizable chunk of their resources around successful titles and...
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3.1KReviewsLethal Shadows Paint Scythe review — Sometimes there’s no catch.
Product not provided by manufacturer. Given climate change, every aspect of society is looking for ways to keep its pastimes while practicing...
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2.4KReviewsGorus Maximus review — Dead simple execution.
For Card Sharps Gorus Maximus is a trick-taking game for 1-8 players. Yes, points are a good thing. No, you can’t shoot...
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2.4KPreviewsShaping the Clay — Previews from PAX Unplugged’s Unpublished Hall
Some ideas can look good on paper or in an echo chamber and need a stranger’s perspective. For board games, fresh perspectives...
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2.2KFeaturesThe GamingTrend 2023 holiday guide — Tabletop edition!
At this point you’ve probably gotten your fill of video games and hardware and gear, but now it’s time for some real...
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2.3KPreviewsMirrorscape preview — A trio of perspectives on the latest attempt to take TTRPG digital.
Recently, a team from GamingTrend was able to sit down and run through a Dungeons and Dragons one shot utilizing the new...
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1.2KReviewsIn the Footsteps of Darwin review — On the stamp collecting of the species.
Like ancient Rome, Darwinism seems too weighty for light fare, but Rise of Augustus (“Bingo, mighty Caesar!”) and now In the Footsteps of Darwin prove...
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1.2KPreviewsThe Alters preview — Out of one, many
Pics provided by 11 Bit Studios. Space pioneers have gotten chonky in science fiction over the last decade or so. It was...
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1.8KPreviewsFrostpunk 2 preview — “The world stands silent, ripe for the taking.”
All images courtesy of 11 Bit Studios. As noted in our review of Frostpunk: The Board Game, the first entry in 11 Bit...
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2.8KEditorialsLetter to Travis Worthington — The non-consensual model
Editor’s note: This editorial is intended to be a satirical response to recent comments made by Travis Worthington in an interview with...
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3.1KReviewsFrostpunk: The Board Game review ⏤ Why you should definitely make the effort.
Frostpunk: The Video Game sports a steampunk coat of paint, the stylish, often meaningless brass cogs and aviator goggles, but the real...
