Game Reviews

At the 2023 Origins Game Fair, I was able to meet a friendly board game creator named Rusty Lumpkin, owner of Three Nail Games. A teacher and a family man, Rusty wanted to create engaging gateway games that could be used in classrooms and played with his children. One of

I play a lot of two player games these days. My wife and I are always looking for a good mid-week game that we can get to the table and play together. We both work in education so after a long day at work, our brains can be fried, and

Back in December, a set called Khans of Tarkir made its way to Magic: The Gathering Arena. At the time, I thought this was odd for Khans to appear, because while a classic set from its time, I didn’t know anyone was clamoring for access to it again. Now

In his time making films, Walt Disney did a lot to advance the world of animation. From using technicolor, layered animation cells, tracing images of moving objects, and other techniques, Disney released the first full length color animated film with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. Since then,

I love it when I get to bring a game to a table and everyone playing has a great time. I also get some morbid pleasure from a game that evokes a visceral reaction from one of the player’s in the game. Who would have thought that a small

In my opinion, there are three things that a good expansion can do: be a physical game patch to fix some issues that play testing hadn’t revealed before printing, add modality to make the game more versatile, or simply add content for those that have played the base game

Fangs is Kosmos’ reprint of Shadow Hunters, one of my favorite social deduction games from the olden times that I never got around to getting a copy of. There’s a couple minor tweaks here and there, but the real change is the retheme, so it’s already time for

Sandbox games are a genre I’ve never hit it off with- I’ve had enough jobs that amounted to running around and doing various tasks that when that’s the entirety of a game, it feels like work to me. It certainly doesn’t help that the vast majority