In 2019, Stonemeier Games released Wingspan. Wingspan was an event in board gaming, selling over 1.4 million copies over the course of its first 3 years, meaning most people in the board game scene have at least heard of the game. More and more have played it, dropped its
Aqua is a mechanically simple 2-player card placement game, where your goal is to create sets of matching icons and numbers within either the rows or columns of the shared grid. On your turn, all you have to do is place one of the three cards in hand, then draw
I really love Sorcerer. As someone that enjoys playing TCGs but hasn’t got a knack for deck construction, I’m frequently on the lookout for games that scratch the same itch without forcing me to invest both time and money on anything besides playing the game itself. Sorcerer is
Pacific War 1942 and War of 1812 are two solitaire games by Worthington Publishing. Although these games are very similar, their differences can be summarized by a few rule changes and the use of different game boards. The settings are completely different as well. They share a review because the
It’s 1984 and the world is in shambles. Decades of conflict have wrought their ruin, and Tomorrow City’s art-deco splendor looms over the land, its many rings grinding lives down into constituent parts for the great machine. Tomorrow City’s Dieselpunk revolution opens with a bang that the
A few years ago, as my students and I were discussing issues they were concerned with, one of my students blurted out, “Save the Turtles!” The result of a trend on social media, I spent the next few weeks discussing and diving into the issue of ocean conservation. Around this
Stalk Exchange is the latest in the surprisingly long list of flower themed speculative stock games, but is this one worth investing in? I think it is.
The game is simple; on your turn you take two actions, either planting buds in the garden board or swapping your randomly dealt
Ink spins the tale of lost souls travelling a murky purgatory to find their way Beyond. Its visual aesthetics are unimpeachable, brilliant black and white pages of mutated ghosts travelling above a black ocean. Its art is both joyous and grim, evoking a strong potential for this setting and the
