Tabletop Games

Halloween seems like a time where scares and tense moments are popular.  While video games have had horror elements to them for a while, board games are starting to bring those elements to the tabletop.  Anomaly is a game that uses hidden movement to challenge the survival of students trapped

There are times when a game doesn’t get discovered right away, and it becomes difficult to get except by paying an arm and a leg on the secondary market.  Sometimes the game has a license or publishing rights that make it impossible for the game to ever get reprinted.

When you look at ancient civilizations, it’s not uncommon for Greek, Norse, and Chinese mythologies to be used as backdrops for gaming.  The Mayans aren’t used very often, and their mythology less so.  However, when looking at the Kickstarter campaign for Mezo, it was easy to see the

Creating a game and putting up on Kickstarter can be a nerve-wracking affair.  You need to have the game playtested, art for the game, and an audience to bring in some hype.  Usually a group of people work together on different parts of the game to complete it.  Few are

Kerberos has been most well known for their Sword of the Stars series.  That series started in 2006 and spawned several expansions and a sequel.  However, the team has recently branched out to board games.  We covered The Pit previously, but now Kerberos has a card game on Kickstarter.  I

CMON had several surprises at Gen Con this year.  Newton, a heavy-looking Euro, isn’t something expected from them.  The fact they are coming out with a Wacky Races game shocked me, since it is an older license, but it could promise racing hijinks.  With CMON still supporting Arcadia Quest,

Some people really enjoy Werewolf for the social deduction aspect of the game.  However, it could drag on for far too long if your group liked to argue and the moderator didn’t keep the game moving.  One Night Ultimate Werewolf fixed that issue, and brought several new roles to

These days games seem to be repetitive, whether from theme or mechanics.  Sometimes a designer will tweak a mechanic to make it seem like something new, but in the end it doesn’t bring much new to the table.  When I saw Nexus, I knew that they had an ambitious