Tabletop Games

Burnt Island Games is a relative new board game publisher. Their first release was a reprint of Endeavor: Age of Sail, but they made their mark with In the Hall of the Mountain King which funded on Kickstarter two years ago. Now they are looking to repeat the success with

Sometimes you can see a game and you think it’s just like another game that you’ve already played. Then you get a closer look and there’s something that gives it a unique twist. That’s what happened when I saw the Kickstarter campaign for What the What?

I remember in 2010 hearing about this new deck-building game called Ascension. I was fortunate enough to meet Justin Gary to talk about his game. While I had played Dominion and Thunderstone, Ascension felt different. Instead of having card piles spread out and available the entire game, it had a

Super Fantasy Brawl originally funded on Kickstarter in mid-2019.  It came out to great acclaim with a large amount of strategy and replayability.  The large character figures didn’t hurt either.  As you might expect, a second Kickstarter with more characters was created and raised even more money than the

While we’ve seen board game translations of popular video and computer games, the Battle Royale genre is one that we haven’t seen come across the table.  With the character personalities, weapons, and fast action, you might think that trying to create something with these mechanics would be futile.

Comic books have been a part of our culture for decades.  Some characters that are common household names got their start in the late 1930’s.  Some games have used popular Marvel and DC characters for their setting, but some create their own characters.  Sentinels of the Multiverse created it’

At first glance Darkest Dungeon looks like an RPG with your party on one side and the enemies on the other.  However, once you dig deeper you find out it plays more like a strategy game.  The party made up of hired help contains classes more unique than a typical

Coming up with something new was hard.  Many third person video games now implement a cover mechanic.  The Marvel Cinematic Universe seems to climax with some object falling from the sky.  It seems like the most innovative song in several years was one that combined rap and country music.  A