Game Reviews

Spring break has come for you and your middle school friends, and with it there will be games, relaxation, and a hoard of fantastical horrors come to destroy everything you know and love. Good times. The Guardians: Explore tasks you with arraying yourself with weaponry to defend your home town

In today’s digital world, it’s difficult to imagine a world in the not-so-distant past that included rotary phones, typewriters, and daily newspapers. Sure, the latter has yet to join the others in extinction, but when was the last time you saw anyone actually read a newspaper that wasn’

Growing up, I loved Voltron. Voltron was this giant Voltron that would be formed when the world needed it the most, when five pilots of mecha would work in unison and combine their robots together. Since I first got into board games, I have been looking for a Voltron-themed game.

What is more terrifying: A pack hunting carnivore or a pack hunting carnivore that can fly? North Star Games has stepped up the competition in Evolution, their game about constantly competing species with the Flight expansion. In this expansion players can take their species to the sky and explore a

I do not expect to finish a first play awestruck by the experience, but my initial playthrough of Mare Nostrum: Empires took on a legendary status. Five players, a mixture of veteran and newcomers, sat down to run through the game in an effort to learn the system. A two

Once in a while a game comes around that ends up defining a genre, setting the standard that all other games are measured against. Arkham Horror fits this bill for thematic boardgames, Agricola is the go-to for worker placement, and for cooperative games there is Pandemic. Sure, there were other

Sir Francis Drake, legend of the age of sail, defender of the realm, and rumored lover of the Queen herself, is the perfect figure to inspire an adventure. Eagle-Gryphon Games brings us a chance to explore his world of expansion and factionalism in all its glory. Francis Drake, a strategy

Politics. Always the hot-button topic no matter which side of the aisle you reside. Now you at home can debate the important issues affecting society with the same dignity as our enigmatic leaders. It’s time to tackle topics such as Medicare, Government Surveillance, and Prostitution and get ready to