These days games seem to be repetitive, whether from theme or mechanics. Sometimes a designer will tweak a mechanic to make it...
If you ever got a chance to play Heroscape, then you know it is a mishmash of characters from different genres and...
Often times when a game is successful, it will get printed multiple times, sometimes with expansions included. However, there are times the...
Today, Plaid Hat Games announced a new cooperative adventure tabletop game, Comanauts, to be released sometime in the future. Two to four...
If you go to a board game store, then you can’t hardly move a couple of steps without tripping over a Cthulhu...
Sometimes a game has great table presence because of the miniatures included. Sometimes the board includes unique aspects. However, I have to...
Osprey Games has diversified their board game catalog. While they have had a successful run of war games and the Frostgrave miniatures...
Kickstarter campaigns are a lot of work. It may seem like you can just post a project and get funding for it. ...
Restoration Games has had a string of hits with Stop Thief! and Downforce, but they haven’t been resting on their laurels. They’ve...
Today, Plaid Hat Games announced that it has released the board game Starship Samurai. The game supports two to four players and...
Kolossal Games might not be the largest publisher, but they’ve had some huge hits on Kickstarter. At Origins I got a chance...
Ares has had a string of success with the Galaxy Defenders line. However, the designers moved forward with a fantasy setting for...
GreenBriar Games has a large number of figure-heavy games like Folklore: The Afflication, the Zpocalypse series, and Vengeance. However, they decided to...
When you look at Glenn Drover’s gaming designs, you might think that he prefers games with lots of figures and some form...
Often when games are reprinted, they keep the same figures, artwork, and pieces as the previous addition. Sometimes the rulebook may get...
While there have been plenty of board games that have some form of fighting in them, it’s generally in a dungeon crawler...
It’s not unusual for board game companies to get different licenses to enhance the theme of the game. Computer games like Fallout,...
Last year Renegade Game Studios was able to surprise almost everyone at Gen Con when they released Clank! In! Space!, a sci-fi...
Worker placement games can be tricky. Many have a problem with the player going first having a huge advantage. Other one can...
There is something so compelling about the paranoia and unpredictability of a social deduction game. GROWL, in its final days on Kickstarter...
Despite the dark style that suffused Of Dreams and Shadows’ visual design, I was less than enthused with its chance-based resolution mechanics....
Horror has historically been a sorely neglected genre. Luckily, a few people have made it their work to keep the genre not...
Grimslingers was a stylish, fully loaded experience when it first came on the scene, mixing supernatural horror and western-style comedy with bluffing...
It seems like typical 4X games are huge endeavors that last for hours with diplomacy, politics, and combat mixed together in an...
Mansions of Madness has taken off with the Second Edition. Most of the fidliness found in the First Edition is gone with...
If imitation is the best form of flattery, then the board gaming world is particularly ripe with adulation. The mechanics from popular...
When Kickstarter became available for funding, board game designers flocked to it. While several board games were successful there, Zombicide became a...
If Grimslingers represents all the best that can happen when Greenbriar Games publishes an independent game with high-quality art, this stands at...
There are many titles that I cannot wait to get onto the table again. These are games I am always willing to...
Dungeon crawlers have seen a resurgence in the past several years. With Descent Second Edition and the D&D Adventure Games, it seemed...
As the tide began to turn against Germany in World War II, a group of officers, agents, and leading civilians realized Adolf...