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 a sneak preview of the game at GAMA Expo 2024 and the whole team was clambering to check it out
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 logistic features that make it very enjoyable for its weight.
In World Wonders you’ll be spending your limited resources
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. Based on a historic British fort turned island prison off the south coast of Ireland, FLED is a tactical card
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. Based on a historic British fort turned island prison off the south coast of Ireland, FLED is a tactical card
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 a sneak preview of the game at GAMA Expo 2024 and the whole team was clambering to check it out
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 logistic features that make it very enjoyable for its weight.
In World Wonders you’ll be spending your limited resources
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 utilizing everything at their disposal, including cafeteria lunch trays, the school nurse’s syringe, and obscenely large textbooks, as their
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; Splendor becomes Splendor: Duel; Azul has its many children. Thunderworks does not (maybe a weak case could be made for
Avalon Hill and Hasbro just announced the release of Betrayal Deck of Lost Souls and HeroQuest Against the Ogre Horde Quest Pack, with Betrayal Deck of Lost Souls adding a new way to play the game and HeroQuest Against the Ogre Horde Quest Pack adding an all new adventure to
Spatial puzzle games have become intrinsic to the hobby. Ever since polyominoes caught fire with Patchwork, NMBR 9, and Feast for Odin, designers have been finding new ways to make our brains melt by putting cardboard bits together. Two years ago, Akropolis introduced stacking hexes, and now, Aqua has my
Unmatched is a bit of a favorite at GamingTrend so we are always excited when a new set is announced. Hot on the heels of Sun’s Origin, Restoration Games just announced Slings and Arrows. This new set features the fan design contest winner William Shakespeare, designed by Jonathan Guberman,
