It can be a challenge for game designers to make a short civilization game. A great civilization game makes you feel like...
I still remember looking at a prototype of Star Realms before Origins and being very impressed with it. Here was a deck-builder...
Issue 1: Preparing for your first local tournament Do you own ten thousand cards and six different playmats? Have you had at...
It’s impossible to understate the popularity of card games. For a medium that has been around for hundreds of years, it’s amazing...
While it’s great to have a large table full of miniatures and tokens, sometimes something with cards can be a nice diversion....
Battling opponents may be the focus of many deck-building card games, yet rarely do those games involve actual battles. SunTzuGames’ upcoming kickstarter,...
Sentinels of the Multiverse became such a hit that it created a brand new publisher. They are one of the true success...
In a time that historians cement as the Dark Age, we find ourselves threatened by the agents of the dark itself. Witches...
Tabletop Day is something that couldn’t have existed even a few years ago. The recent burst of excitement and energy for nerdy...
Fantasy Flight has definitely nailed down the formula for the living card game formula. With The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars,...
While it’s not uncommon for games to have a solo mode, not many board games are purely solo experiences. One of those...
While big gaming conferences like Origins and Gen Con are known for having large gaming competitions, many other smaller ones are held...
I take it as a point of pride that many people I know have an instinctive fear of my voice whenever the...
After pushing back the monstrous hordes in Valeria: Card Kingdoms and exploring the wilds they left behind in Quests for Valeria, the...
The opening paragraph of Behind the Throne’s rulebook talks of secret organizations conspiring to manipulate courtiers as they strive to gather enough...
Card games can be a great gateway to get others to play games. Playing games with cards at a table seems to...
It’s not uncommon to see second editions of games coming out. Sometimes the gameplay gets tweaked, other times the art or the...
While Scott Pilgrim hasn’t been in the limelight much lately. While he’s been in comics, a video game, and a feature movie,...
The Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle deck-building game was popular not only for its theme, but it also gradually introduced people to cooperative...
The DC Deck-Building Game has had a lot of longevity with several versions released for it. The next crossover pack looks very...
If you’ve played Thunderstone or Thunderstone Advanced, then you know that they are deck building games with a heavy fantasy dungeon crawling...
A trend seems to be incorporating RPGs into card games. The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game is the best example. Grimslingers from Greenbrier...
While some people use Dominion as their go-to for teaching deck building games, I go to the DC Deck Build Game when...
2017 is just around the corner. While we celebrate some of the amazing games of 2016, there are quite a few exciting...
The Kingdom of Valeria reels, having survived an onslaught of monstrous hordes. Now, as it recovers, guildmasters seek adventurers to explore the...
While Ashes seemed to be a hot ticket item at one time, the excitement seems to have died down recently. However, Plaid...
It feels like there’s more games about trying to defeat Batman than actually being Batman. But what if you could spin some...
Cthulhu and his mythos are far too often thrown around games and media for no reason and with little respect to the...
While brackets are a great way to determine a champion, they can be unfair in some formats. Sometimes a very good player...
Trick-taking games can be an easy gateway to hobby gaming for those familiar with similar games using a standard 52-card deck. Different...
WizKids is most well-known for its Dice Masters, HeroClix, and Star Trek Attack Wing games, but it looks like they are making...