Beavers is a kids and family game from tabletop giant Asmodee. As the resident reviewer of family games at GamingTrend I am always looking for games that I can play with my kids and they are eager to try them out. How does 13 Beavers stand up to short attention
To me, “thematic” is a borderline dirty word. Playing too many early American designs that favored turning you into the DiCaprio pointing meme over fun or interesting gameplay has given me cardboard PTSD, so I generally shy away from games that are labeled as such. Harrow County, based on the
Lord of the Rings will always hold a special place in my heart. From the first time I read the trilogy in middle school, or watched the movies for the first, or 30th, time, or introducing the world to my students and family, there is something timeless about the story
Cars roar across the blasted wasteland and broken highways. The retort of heavy calibur gunfire rings across the salt-wastes. The greatest, and only, entertainment in the post apocalypse is the Thunder Road Rally, a last man standing race across the blasted desert. If you wanna win this thing, you gotta
In 1972, one of the nation’s greatest scandals occurred. A sitting president was accused of illegally wiretapping and spying on his political rivals, looking for dirt to win the next election. That president? Richard Nixon. And the ones that broke the scandal? The press!
Watergate is a 2 player
In old Paris, there is a place where the crippled walk, the sick are cured, where gold appears like magic and beggars become kings. That place is the Court of Miracles. Of course, the only miracles that occur there is that the beggars and thieves that populate it can walk
Something not of this world arrived. Initially, it was the size of a city, but it quickly shrank, and shrank, and shrank, until it was no more than a small cube with cryptic symbols floating in space. Scientists the world over gathered to study it, but soon realized that there
Our last standard set for 2024 (not counting Foundations) is Duskmourn: House of Horror. Another plane new to the multiverse, inspired by the horror movies of the 1980s. Duskmourn is an interesting idea as it revolves around a plane that is one enormous “house.” You can never leave the house,
