Game Reviews

Oceans is the spiritual sequel to Northstar’s hit Evolution series. The Evolution core mechanics of creating quirky creatures, evolving them, and competing for food is still what makes the game run but Oceans takes many of the ideas from Evolution, streamlines them, and moves the theme to the unexplored

I’m sure that Wizkids wasn’t following my train of thought when they themed Bequest around supervillainy, but it really is a perfect metaphor for this game. When I first played Bequest, I was legitimately feeling like it may be one of my new staple filler games. But, after

After giving us a tour of Avernus then the realms of horror in Ravenloft, the designers at Wizards of the Coast have taken us in a new direction with an exploration of a part of the Feywild in the hardback adventure the Wild Beyond the Witchlight. This book has a

San Francisco: Mid-1800s. At the height of the gold rush, thousands of speculators made their way to the goldfields of California. As they came, hundreds of vessels lay abandoned off the coast. A group of entrepreneurs capitalized on the situation to try and build their own empires with the resources

Welcome to Jurassic P….wait let’s try that again welcome to Dinosaur World. Do you have a desire to manage your own dinosaur theme park? If you do then get ready to explore the board game Dinosaur World. In what once started out as an expansion to Dinosaur Island,

I watch an absurd amount of cooking competition shows. Since the focus of most of these is on how the cooks deal with adversity, one of the most common tropes is some series of events conspiring to put one of the contestants behind the eight ball, needing to do too

The wrap that the second edition of Polis comes in features a full-throated endorsement from Jason Matthews- the designer of Twilight Struggle, one of the most highly regarded two-player board games to date. It also quotes a BGG user, who likens the game to a knife fight in a phone

Wild Space is a short 30-minute game with players laying cards down in a tableau very reminiscent of ‘Race for the Galaxy’. From the company Pandasaurus, Wild Space sees players taking the role of colonization and exploration efforts as they control ships that land on planets, all while expanding their