Avatar The Last Airbender: Fire Nation Rising is a cooperative game where players build up a team of characters while they try to fight villains and have a showdown to take down the entire Fire Nation in a selection of final battles. This is done by taking turns rolling dice,
Every now and then, a game comes around that is so mechanically unique and interesting that I have to make room for it in my collection regardless of how good it actually winds up, if only to just show it off to other hobbyists. SPECTRE is such a game, with
When the original Sorcerer’s Arena came to the table, I was already a fan. Not only am I a big fan of Disney, but I’m also a big fan of games that I can get to the table and get gamers with different levels of experience involved. I
Before Terraforming Mars was a huge hit, Jacob Fryxelius had a far more humble game called Space Station that involved taking turns putting down various ‘modules’ that represent things like living quarters or military installations as players build the best space station. Terraforming Mars came and went, and came again
If you’ve played Asking for Trobils before, you’ve seen the nods and winks at iconic science fiction franchises in the design of the spaceships and the Riff Raff deck. With the Companions expansion, Breaking Games amped up the references while taking a small mechanic from the base game
Don’t let Asking For Trobils’ orange-dominant color palette and cartoon-looking spaceships fool you, it’s an enjoyable game of strategy, resource collection, and worker placement with a twist. This review is of the second edition of the game with updates to the art style (hello definition and other colors
Columbia is known for many things in today’s day and age such as coffee, Pablo Escobar, and its door knockers? In colonial times, the door knockers of Cartagena, called Aldabas, indicated to the world your profession and social status. Aldabas takes the history of this colonial tradition and builds
In my continuing quest to collect games that work with both my non-gaming family and my gaming friends, finding Catherine was a resounding success. Most of these games work by laser-focusing on one mechanic and doing it well, and Catherine’s is hand management.
The rules are rather straightforward: each
