Tabletop: BOARD GAMEs
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1.1KAn Age Contrived looks gorgeous and promises a solid game⏤PAX U preview
Heading into PAXU, An Age Contrived was on my short list of upcoming titles to check out, based almost entirely upon its...
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701.0KTennpenny Parks review — An exceptionally vibrant purgatory
Come one, come all, to see the magnificent Tenpenny Parks! It’s got worker placement, it’s got polyominoes, it’s got player interaction, it’s...
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901.5KAvatar The Last Airbender: Fire Nation Rising – Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked
Avatar The Last Airbender: Fire Nation Rising is a cooperative game where players build up a team of characters while they try...
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1.2KSimplicity with lots of personality — Emotional Intelligence PAX Unplugged preview
One of many games Gaming Trend had the opportunity to experience at Pax Unplugged was Emotional Intelligence: A Personality Deduction Game from...
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652.7KSPECTRE: The Board Game review— no, Mr. Bond, I expect you to sigh
Every now and then, a game comes around that is so mechanically unique and interesting that I have to make room for...
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751.2KStar Scrappers: Orbital – Building a space station one card at a time
Before Terraforming Mars was a huge hit, Jacob Fryxelius had a far more humble game called Space Station that involved taking turns...
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1.0KWizards of the Coast release Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn, a D&D board game
On December 2nd, Wizards of the Coast released a companion board game meant to be played alongside D&D campaigns. Enlist with your...
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85911Asking For Trobils: Companions review: A hitchhiker’s guide to Trobil hunting
If you’ve played Asking for Trobils before, you’ve seen the nods and winks at iconic science fiction franchises in the design of...
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901.0KAsking For Trobils Review: They’ve got a new paint scheme, they’ve gone orange!
Don’t let Asking For Trobils’ orange-dominant color palette and cartoon-looking spaceships fool you, it’s an enjoyable game of strategy, resource collection, and...
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845Galaxy Trucker: Keep on Trucking expansion now available in the USA
Galaxy Trucker: Keep on Trucking, a new expansion for the fast and goofy family game Galaxy Trucker, is now available in the...
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801.0KCatherine: The Cities of the Tsarina review—activating aristocrats
In my continuing quest to collect games that work with both my non-gaming family and my gaming friends, finding Catherine was a...
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851.6KShake That City review — Randomizing colored cubes has never been this fun
Editor’s note: We get a lot of prototype games at Gaming Trend, in various states of completion, and usually we have a...
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801.1KGutenberg review — don’t stop the presses!
The advent of the printed word was an astounding revelation for the world. What once started out as hand copying illustrations and...
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876Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught preview— it’s okay to be a murder hobo
There is a well-known subset of TTRPG players who are primarily interested in combat and acquiring loot colloquially known as murder hobos....
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854.0KReady Set Bet review — A fast paced, fun, and exciting… game?
While I’ve never been to a horse race and I never will, I’ve always enjoyed horse racing and betting games. However, they...
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852.3KUnmatched: Houdini vs. the Genie review— a magical melee
I had been faced with a dilemma when writing previous Unmatched reviews. Since each set is essentially a standalone expansion, should I...
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1.3KELDEN RING The Board Game comes to kickstarter
Steamforged Games announced a new upcoming tabletop combat game, ELDEN RING The Board Game, coming to kickstarter later this month. Based on...
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902.3KMassive Darkness 2 – Lightbringers heading straight into Hell
Massive Darkness 2 is a co-op dungeon crawler for 1 to 6 players. Players pick from different classes of ‘Lightbringers’ that head...
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702.4KNacho Pile review — There’s a game in my bag of chips!
It’s happened – we now have a party game that could easily be confused with the snacks at the party, which may...
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801.4KSay Anything review — The real fun is the friends we made along the way
Party games are a dime a dozen. They are often easy to learn, accessible to all, and can be finished fairly quickly,...
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501.1KSan Francisco review— hit the track, Jack
I’m a self-described Knizia fanboy, so I was extremely excited when I saw we had received his newest design for review. As...
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1.2KTabriz Preview — Persian rug industrial complex
In ancient Persia, in its time the cultural center of the world, the art of making rugs was held as a high...
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301.4KArrakis: Dawn of the Fremen review— well begun is half done
When Arrakis was first announced a few months ago as a reskin/redesign of an ’80s area control game named Borderlands, I was...
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1.2KThrills and Chills come to Disney’s Sorcerer’s Arena
Disney’s Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances adds three new powerful characters to the mix in this expansion; Mother Gothel from Rapunzel, The Horned...
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851.3KLuna Capital review — Making the moon profitable
The year is 1977 and the private sector is betting on the moon as the next big market. In order for that...
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801.3KUSPS: The Great American Mail Race review – Not Rain, Sleet, Snow, or Hail can put a damper on this game!
I won’t even lie to you, at one point in my life, I thought I wanted to be a mailman. In elementary...
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501.9KNorthgard: Uncharted Lands review— viking snowball fight
As a kid, I cut my board gaming teeth on American designs like Axis & Allies and various roll and moves, games...
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912ELDEN RING board game set to launch November 22nd on Kickstarter
The ELDEN RING board game is set to launch its Kickstarter campaign on November 22nd, 2022. Those interested can follow the pre-launch...
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1.3KTwo new Minecraft board games coming courtesy of Ravensburger
Ravensburger has announced two new Minecraft based board games: Minecraft: Portal Dash and Minecraft: Heroes of the Village. Both games will be...
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801.1KWormholes review—Infrastructure! In! Space!
At first look, Wormholes appears unassuming, but its svelte box comes jam-packed with my favorite pickup and deliver game on the market....
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1.1KRenovations expansion announced for Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Kickstarter preview is now live
An expansion has been announced for Castles of Mad King Ludwig titled Renovations, which allows players to renovate their castle as they...
