There’s a boardgame you should buy. It’s called Gloomhaven. It is second most highly-rated game on BoardGameGeek behind Pandemic Legacy. The second edition has just been released and all reports are that this is an astonishingly awesome game. However you should not, under any circumstances, buy it from Amazon US. Gloomhaven is another legacy game. Most legacy games straddle the […]
There are great number of truly evil board games. But there is a game that’s the evilest of them all. Diplomacy.
In a world of cynicism and hard financial realities, it’s a rare and beautiful thing to come across a story where love wins. Yet here I sit with a fresh new game in my hands, from the Netherlands with love.
How do you distil all of human history into a game? How do you inscribe all of our knowledge and learning upon 105 cards? How do you condense millennia of scientific progress and technological innovation into a 30-minute-card game called Innovation?
With genius, guile, and a game designer called Carl Chudyk.
It is likely you’ve never played a board game about making patchwork quilts. It is also likely you’ve never played the greatest 2-player game every designed.
There are free games and there are free games. One of the best print and play games you can get for free is one of the worst: Cards Against Humanity. Cards Against Humanity, the self-dubbed “party game for horrible people”, is not a board game for everyone, but it is a board game for a lot of people […]
There are debacles and there are debacles. There are board games and there are board games. But there is nothing quite like Glory To Rome.
We all like board games. But board games can be expensive, and some of us can no longer afford smashed avo brunches, let alone shiny new board games. But there is a cheaper alternative. Welcome to the wonders of Print and Play (PnP) board games. What is Print and Play? Many designers design many games. For many […]
You’re at a party. It is not lit. It is so unlit you are likely to be eaten by a grue. You and your gamer friend exchange a knowing look: I would much rather be playing games. She pulls out a phone, and pulls up Triple Agent. Hallelujah! Game on. Triple Agent by Tasty Rook, a two-man […]
I’ve always loved board games. As a poor student, I would walk into Games Paradise on Pitt Street in the city just to be surrounded by shiny plastic-wrapped board games with expensive price tags.
Then one day, I discovered a secret.
