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 […]
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.
