Game Reviews

When setting out to play Carpe Diem for the first time, I was prepared for a pleasant experience of tile placement with friends and introducing a Stefan Feld game to some newcomers. What I was not expecting was a rage induced tirade of epic proportions that included many expletives, “are

Highschool will always be a tough time for people. Myself included, which makes revisiting the high school you graduated from for a reunion kind of an odd experience. In my life I never found myself caring or wanting to go back to those halls as my life now is who

Mountains in all of their majesty provide a plethora of different experiences for all walks of life, whether you go camping, hiking, or even mountain climbing. Being a mountain climber is not for the faint of heart and takes a considerable amount of preparation. This brings us to the game

Ni No Kuni II was an, “ehhhh” video game. I don’t remember the story, I don’t remember having much fun, but I do remember the stunningly vibrant artwork and the cute little elementals called “Higgledies.” The non-stop beauty beckoned me to keep playing, to like the game, but

Have you ever considered a petting zoo, but demonic? This is the question that Satanimals asks. Satanimals is a light-hearted card game for 2-4 players by Marlon Fussell and published by Megamint Games. Players draw 3 cards at a time from a 3×3 queue of face up cards, then

In 1787, Catherine II traveled along the Dnieper River, and Governor Grigory Potemkin erected phony settlements along the river to impress the empress. In Potemkin Empire, published by Indie, you are tasked with managing your own phony cities in order to be seen as the most impressive city. Each month,

If you asked me to summarize the experience of playing Batman: Everybody Lies, I would tell you it felt like someone wrote a mystery set in Gotham City and made it a multimedia  multiplayer choose your own adventure with board game elements. You may counter that that is pretty lengthy

Ah Dungeons Dice and Danger – a roll and write game. The proverbial game/gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving. Many games are ticketed as too much to play at one time, or having too many pieces, or too few pieces, or not enough strategy. Well, the roll