Game Reviews

My family’s from Kentucky, so I was fated to at least tangentially care about basketball. When I saw Basketboss on our review board, I was intrigued; the fast pace of the game doesn’t really lend itself to a tabletop adaptation, but then I saw that it was an

What walks then shelters? What fails and always flows? What is silent as soon as it connects? Think you know the answer? Then check out Smug Owls. Smug Owls is a 2023 release from Runaway Parade Games and designers Grace Kendall & Mike Belsole. In Smug Owls, players will race

Around 250 A.D, The Maya civilization was building cities in the jungles of the Yucatan peninsula. Mayan families warred for control over the riches and the resources found throughout the land, invoking the power of the Gods to help them become the most powerful family in the land. In

Portable, stylish, and mostly comprehensible, CBR + PNK Augmented brings a lot to the table. This set of 12 pamphlets contains resources for rules, characters, adventures, NPCs, and setting options in a Cyberpunk RPG about running heists and trying to get out alive. Pamphlets offer different strengths and weaknesses than a

The world of Scythe is intriguing. Mostly told through the rulebook of Scythe and most especially Jakub Rozalski’s art, it follows a bunch of leaders and heroes from various altered European countries during an uneasy pre-World War 1 peace. There are weird things afoot, mostly from a place called

This is by far the most time I’ve spent analyzing and preparing a game for review. After a month of assembling, painting, reading, and finally playing Blood & Plunder by Firelock Games, I will say that this game is perfect for the history and pirate loving gamer in your

Disney Villainous: Sugar and Spite, from publisher Ravensburger, is the 9th box to carry the Disney Villainous name or a whopping 16th if you count the Marvel and Star Wars spinoffs. That’s a lot of Villainous.  All of that content begs the question, do we really need more? I

Here it is, the long-awaited follow-up to my Kapow! Volume 1 review, the review for the aptly named standalone expansion Kapow! Volume 2. So what’s in a box? All the dice, faces, boards, and screens to play the game again, along with six new characters and components to play