I have a new favourite game. It’s colourful, delightful, strategic and fun, and lets me live out my wildest fantasies: collecting beautiful beautiful gems, and marshalling golems to do my bidding.
Century: Golem Edition, designed by Emerson Masuuchi and published by Plan B Games, is a simple, elegant and subtle deck-building, engine-building game.
A lot of games these days have a pretty standard two-pole alignment system: You’re evil, or you’re good. Hero or villain. Paragon or a Renegade. Jedi or Sith. Which is good and all, but once you leave the realms of childhood and politics behind, you realise that the world is more complex than goodies and baddies. People are more complex. You need an alignment system that captures this complexity and lets you roleplay better.
One of the Strongbad’s finest creations — because it was post-modern enough to have shows within shows within the email reply on the show — was Trogdor, the S-shaped dragon drawn with burly arms and consummate Vs.
Fifteen years later, Trodgor makes an appearance in the flesh in the just-released Kickstarter campaign.
My name is Haoran and I am a board game addict.
You probably already knew that.
But I’m just as addicted to something else: to the seductive appeal of the Kickstarter board game.
When does a game cease to be a game? What exactly is a game anyway? The Mind, designed by Wolfgang Warsch, lives very much on the edge of the definition. By it’s own admission, it can’t decide what it wants to be. According to the back of the box, “The Mind is more than just […]
Auction games make you question everything. Auctions make for great games.
High Society is one of the greatest auction game ever made.
My wife and I have been saving the world for 2 months, 1 week and 5 days. We should be watching The Good Place. Instead we’re playing Pandemic Legacy again, trying to stop the world from being torn asunder. Because the pull from Pandemic Legacy is better than the best show on Netflix. In our alternate timeline, it is September. […]
As surely as night follows day, a successful board game will be followed by an expansion. Expansions, however, are rarely worth your time. Ticket to Ride added Ticket to Ride: Europe, Ticket to Ride: Märklin, Ticket to Ride: Asia. Settlers of Catan followed with Seafarers of Catan, and Knights and Cities. Caracassone added Inns and Cathedrals, Traders and Builders, The Dragon and the Princess, and many more. Agricola added Farmers of […]
Looking for something to play this weekend? You could do worse than an Australian board game. You know I’m not going to be recommending the Australian edition of Monopoly, nor the Sydney edition, the BridgeClimb edition, or even Monopoly: Cricket Australia Charity edition. If someone asks you to play Monopoly this weekend, refuse. Play one of these instead. Squatter Two board […]
If your family needs some help with Christmas presents, here are some new(ish) games you should put on your wishlist. Kingdomino Designer: Bruno CathalaPlayers: 2 – 4Play Time: 15 – 20 minutesRecommended Ages: 8+ Kingdomino is a strange beast. It’s a modern take on dominoes, with a dose of area control in it. Enough people were impressed by Kingdomino that it took […]
