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
Dungeon Map Maker
👨👩👧👦Players: 1⏳Time: 30-120🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Dice rolling, map drawing, grid movements, endgame objectives, solo Dungeon Map Maker from Doopy Games (designer of Fantasy Map Maker) is two games in one. By day it is a dungeon-building spatial puzzle, at night it becomes a dungeon-crawling monster-fighting game. Yes, my art skills are average. No, I don't know … Continue reading Dungeon Map Maker
Case File: Raccoon Tycoon
Racoon Tycoon is a game about stock buying and selling, set collection and property management. Take on the roles of cute critters and rise to the top in business!
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
