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Black Sonata: Strange Shadows expansion review – Whence solo you doth played before, new variety can add one more.

What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Normally we don’t publish full reviews of Kickstarters, but this expansion was provided

By Dan Hinkin

/ 22 Apr 2024

Black Sonata: Strange Shadows expansion review – Whence solo you doth played before, new variety can add one more.

Black Sonata review – ABABCDCDEFEFGG…not a cheat code, but a brilliant sonnet.

Many games in the tabletop space have solo modes. Oftentimes they adapt the rules to add in a dummy player, have players play in an alternate way, sometimes players are

By Dan Hinkin

/ 20 Apr 2024

Black Sonata review – ABABCDCDEFEFGG…not a cheat code, but a brilliant sonnet.

Factory 42 review — Dwarven dynamics through worker placement and negotiation

Step into the bustling corridors of Factory 42, where you’re thrust into the role of overseeing Marxistic dwarves in an industrialized setting fraught with resource management, negotiation, and government

By Mike Case

/ 18 Apr 2024

Factory 42 review — Dwarven dynamics through worker placement and negotiation

Qawale review — Tic-Tac-Yes

Continuing on my quest to play every two player abstract game that Gigamic and partner Hachette Games has to offer, we have arrived at Qawale. A mix of Tic-Tac-Toe and

By Mark Julian

/ 18 Apr 2024

Collectionomics preview — Redrawing the magic circle.

Civilization designer Sid Meier famously said, “Games are a series of interesting decisions.” If you strictly apply that to what you can measure, the effects of your choices as they

By Sean Weeks

/ 9 Apr 2024

Collectionomics preview — Redrawing the magic circle.

Tribes of the Wind review —Nausicaä of the valley of the windriders

Rebuilding civilization after its collapse has become a popular theme in board games recently, and it makes sense that climate anxiety has finally taken ahold of the of the collective

By Nick Dubs

/ 5 Apr 2024

Tribes of the Wind review —Nausicaä of the valley of the windriders

Virtual Revolution review — Servers temporarily offline

Have you ever picked up a weird indie game as part of a humble bundle, gotten around to playing it, and been oddly impressed? I’m not going to try

By Nick Dubs

/ 5 Apr 2024

Virtual Revolution review — Servers temporarily offline

You have two days left to back FLED, a tactical card and tile escape game for 2-4 players, on Kickstarter

FLED, designed by Mark Swanson and illustrated by Klemens Franz, has entered its final 48 hours on Kickstarter and is only $5,000 away from reaching its $50,000 goal.

By Richard Allen

/ 2 Apr 2024

You have two days left to back FLED, a tactical card and tile escape game for 2-4 players, on Kickstarter

Quoridor meets PAC-MAN in this tabletop mashup launching in May at the UK Games Expo

Hachette Boardgames UK has announced a PAC-MAN version of the extremely popular abstract classic Quoridor. I enjoy Quoridor and this mashup feels like a no brainer. We got to see

By Mark Julian

/ 26 Mar 2024

Quoridor meets PAC-MAN in this tabletop mashup launching in May at the UK Games Expo

World Wonders review — More enjoyable than the average tile laying game

I enjoy heavy games. For example, I love to play A Feast For Odin, another tetromino placement game. World Wonders is not heavy, and yet it has some economic and

By Chris Hinkes

/ 25 Mar 2024

World Wonders review — More enjoyable than the average tile laying game

Fight your way through school in Hoot Owl Games’ fast-paced tabletop brawling game, Knockout High, now on Kickstarter

Fight your way through school in Hoot Owl Games’ first release, Knockout High, a fast-paced brawling game where 2 through 5 players throwdown through a variety of school-based arenas while

By Richard Allen

/ 12 Mar 2024

Fight your way through school in Hoot Owl Games’ fast-paced tabletop brawling game, Knockout High, now on Kickstarter

Interview with Thunderworks Games — Making worlds twixt cardboard.

Thunderworks Games has a catalog with notably little repetition. Many publishers marshal a sizable chunk of their resources around successful titles and drill down on their mechanisms: Wingspan becomes Wyrmspan;

By Sean Weeks

/ 12 Mar 2024

Interview with Thunderworks Games — Making worlds twixt cardboard.