Horizon is a dish best served cold. A dish that teaches you to fish rather than feeds you for a day. The expansions not so much. For most board games, expansions are welcome additions of content. For Horizon Zero Dawn the Board Game, I’m not so sure that is
At a glance a video game to a board game is a vast undertaking. Much like tv shows and movie adaptations of video games, many set out with the goal of presenting a video game in another form and capturing an even wider audience. With this goal in mind, there
In a galaxy far, far away… fans were long ago introduced to the Star Wars universe. In a collaboration between ZMAN Games and designer Justin Kemppainen, we are welcomed back to the planet Tatooine- more specifically to Jabba the Hutt’s Palace. In this two to six player game, players
I’ve had a rough time trying to pin down Valeria: Card Kingdoms. While it seems like Valeria always has one hand outstretched to give you more, more, more, its other hand is oppositionally constantly ready to take. On its surface, Valeria is an extremely generous game in an already
Calling the Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn a tome would almost be selling this impressive book short. All 280 pages are overflowing with lore, monsters, NPCs, histories, and incredible artwork from the continent of Tal’Dorei in Exandria, the homebrew world of Matthew Mercer, and the setting of Vox Machina
There aren’t too many cardinal sins that a game can make that will immediately kill it for me. But to state the relatively obvious, a game will fall flat if it bores its players; a game needs to provide interesting choices in order to stand up to any sort
Duhr is, without a doubt, one of the strangest games in my collection. In the modern era where it seems like every game is fighting to get on “games everyone should have in their collection” lists, it unapologetically only works for a niche audience. While most publishers will size a
Subastral joins the burgeoning subniche of short, moody environmental games that I am happy to see growing in the boardgame market. This 15-30 minute card game positions you and the other players as traveling researchers seeking to outdo one another in collecting the most information about Earth’s biomes. This
