We’ve all been there. You walk into a room, take in the decor, the paint colors, the knick knacks on the sideboard, and immediately wonder whether you stepped straight into another decade. That Old Wallpaper takes the aesthetic of your grandmother’s dated, mid-century home decorating style and brings
Let’s be honest; Oil is a big part of our everyday lives. From the gasoline in our cars to the plastics in our games, oil is hard to get away from. When I heard about a cooperative game about pushing back an oil spill and saving marine life, I
Rise is a board game about tracks. No, not railroad tracks, though it is a game set in the industrial era. We’re talking about progress tracks. The game has 12 in all, and the way they interact is, surprisingly, quite interesting.
Rise puts players in the shoes of aspiring
Wine is enjoyed across the entire world, though those disparate cultures’ relationship with wine is very different. Viticulture: World is dedicated to exploring how wine impacts different parts of the world, and how those differences impact how that wine is made.
Viticulture World is a co-operative expansion to Viticulture. Much
I love games with a good arc, so a well-done engine builder that takes you from barely having enough to do anything in the beginning to swimming in a bounty of resources by the end is going to usually be up my alley. Add in quality production and interesting tactical
Asking for Trobils: Trobil Makers is an expansion to the original Asking for Trobils, so this mayhem only works in combination with the base game.
The story to this expansion is that a group of scientists, on a new-to-us location called Sagan Colony, heard about the Trobil troubles in (on)
Gates of Delirium tries to meld a lot of concepts into a concise package, and it mostly succeeds at combining area control, set collection, and the horrific aesthetics of Lovecraft’s Yog-Sothothery. Gates of Delirium, like the rest of the world, doesn’t understand that Lovecraft’s stories were made
Come one, come all, to see the magnificent Tenpenny Parks! It’s got worker placement, it’s got polyominoes, it’s got player interaction, it’s got asymmetry, it’s beautiful inside and out, it comes from the makers of the beloved Cartographers and Roll Player, aaanndd iiiitts… Alright. Yeah,
