Welcome to The Boardgame Detective! The Boardgame Detective is here to provide reviews of boardgames that are light on rules explanation and delve more into what the game feels like to play. Articles centre on the author's praise and criticisms for the game. Each article provides a brief theme and rules overview of the game … Continue reading Welcome
Case File: The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 1-5⏳Time: 60-150 mins🎂Ages: 14+⚙️Mechanisms: Cooperative, variable player powers, dice rolling, set collection, hand management, solo Fate of the Fellowship from Z-Man Games is a cooperative adventure for 1-5 players. It was designed by Matt Leacock of Pandemic fame and incorporates an enhanced version of the Pandemic system into gameplay that immerses you in the … Continue reading Case File: The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship
Case File: The Sims Board Game
The Sims is a family game about exploring your neighbourhood, collecting items and achieving your career goals
Case File: 12 Rivers
12 Rivers is a worker placement game about collecting pearls from the river and using them to complete goals. Watch them run down the innovative sloped board and crash to the bottom!
Case File: Brick Like This
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-8⏳Time: 15 mins🎂Ages: 7+⚙️Mechanisms: Real-time, communication limits, pattern building, team game Brick Like This from LEGO is childhood nostalgia meets party game, and I’m so here for it. Brick Like This is a 2-8 player game, where players work together in teams, racing to correctly build the shape on the cards they have chosen. One player … Continue reading Case File: Brick Like This
Case File: Viticulture
Viticulture is a fantastic worker placement game all about wine making
Millennia: Tracks of Time Review
As your civilisation meanders through the ages, how will the decisions its people make affect the future? How can what we do now ensure the brightest outcome for our descendants? How can we make sure we, the beige civilisation, gets the most points? Everyone knows that over the Millennia, only your progress on the Tracks … Continue reading Millennia: Tracks of Time Review
Case File: Sugarrr!
Sugarrr!, a fast and fun game about feeding your fruit-loving dinosaurs!
Case File: Apiary
Apiary is a fantastic worker placement game set in space, where you lead a colony of bees to victory
Case File: Fantasy Map Maker
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 1+⏳Time: 30-60 minutes🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Dice rolling, drawing, map addition, solo Fantasy Map Maker from Doopy Games is part game, part creative endeavour, and unlike most other games, it's also completely relaxing and meditative. During the game, you will map out features such as mountains, coast, houses, and forest, as well as drawing in prominent … Continue reading Case File: Fantasy Map Maker
Case File: Crafting the Cosmos
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 60-90 minutes🎂Ages: 14+⚙️Mechanisms: Rondel, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers, Automatic Resource Growth, Income, Contracts I didn't think a game could become a favourite so quickly, but Crafting the Cosmos from Office Dog Games takes the beauty of space, adds the puzzle-y pattern placement planning (try saying that three times fast) of games like Calico, … Continue reading Case File: Crafting the Cosmos
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