Game Reviews

Playing Big Boss for review has been the board game version of going to colonial Williamsburg or any other historical reenactment. I’ve been helping Mike get plays of the Renegade reprint of its ancestor Acquire in for review, so I’ve gotten to really play around with early economic

Say what you will about crowdfunding, it has really helped drag board game production out of the stone age of beige spreadsheets into something that looks professional and doesn’t immediately turn off all but the most German passerby. Nowadays, games typically aim for an impeccable presentation in order to

On paper, La Famiglia has all the makings for a home run. Just looking at the companies involved, it’s another Feuerland/ Capstone import, the combo that brought us the obscenely good Ark Nova. Mechanics wise, it’s an asymmetric team-based worker placement and area control hybrid, with hidden order

Solving puzzles in VR is the whole reason I love virtual reality in the first place. The tactile nature of it, picking up objects and manipulating them in virtual space, and then physically using them to interact with the environment makes for the best gameplay experience money can buy. You

Living in Tennessee and being a big fan of bourbon, how could I resist the chance to review Distilled (2023) from Paverson Games? This highly detailed strategic card game promises to take you through the journey of revitalizing an abandoned distillery passed down to you as inheritance and to make

District Noir is a 2 player only filler game, with plays lasting around 15 minutes. Yet, it feels like something more. Art and Theme The art is excellent and matches up with the theme very well. I really like the dark style, and yet the color splashed in the different

One of my biggest criticisms of Battletech: Total Warfare was that it was huge. At 312 pages, not only was it physically heavy, it was hard to get through. While it contained literally every rule you could imagine, that was also its main problem. Gorgeous artwork throughout this small book

The simulator genre has gotten a bit weird over the years, with parody games like Goat Simulator and more out there titles like PC Building Simulator, but PowerWash Simulator reminds me of why this kind of game is appealing in the first place. You take something normally tedious, strip out