👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 1⏳Time: 15 mins🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Solo/Solitaire I've been playing a lot of solo games, and one that's hitting my table a lot is Cavern Shuffle from Gravy Boat Games. Cavern Shuffle is a solo dungeon crawl inspired card game that utilizes Solitaire mechanics. Your adventuring party consists of 4 different classes of adventurers, representing each … Continue reading Case File: Cavern Shuffle
Azul Duel is a two player specific version of the classic tile laying game Azul. It's packed with new concepts to keep you interested while feeling familiar to anyone who's played before
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-5⏳Time: 30m🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Card Drafting Colour Colour Colour Colour Colour Chameleon! We’ve been playing Coloretto from designer Michael Schacht. It’s a card game for 2-5 players where you try to gather the best sets of Chameleon cards. On your turn you have two options. You can either draw a card from the deck and … Continue reading Case File: Coloretto
Mycelia is a game where your job is to grow the best mushroom kingdom. Each player starts with just a single mother mushroom, and from there you expand by spreading spores. Spores can be used at plant extra mushrooms, adding to your network and increasing your options for further growth.
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-4 (1-4 with expansion)⏳Time: 10-20 minutes🎂Ages: ⚙️Mechanisms: Grid movement, set collection, map reduction, cooperative I've been on a solo game kick lately, and one that’s been hitting my table a lot is Aethermon: Collect (and its expansion) from Aethermon Studios. Aethermon is a quick (15 min) game for 2-4 players (1-4 with expansion) that … Continue reading Case File: Aethermon
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 1-4⏳Time: 60-90 minutes🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Cooperative, deck construction, deck building, campaign Dungeon Legends from Rebel Studio is a tower defence-style game, with some light deck-building. It is designed to be played cooperatively with 1-4 players over a 5-chapter campaign. However, chapters can be picked up and played in any order the player(s) wish. I chose … Continue reading Case File: Dungeon Legends
Captain Flip is one of those rare games that we think we could teach to pretty much anyone, but there’s enough in it to keep us interested as well. You wouldn’t think that something so simple could be so tense and engaging, but it really is that flippin’ good!
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-5⏳Time: 10-25 mins🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Card Drafting, Placement “Hear ye!, hear ye! The King has declared a party…a COMBO party” We’ve been playing Castle Combo from Pandasaurus Games. It’s a card drafting and placement game where you get exactly nine turns to gather nobles and townsfolk together into a 3 by 3 grid. Each card … Continue reading Case File: Castle Combo
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-5⏳Time: 20-30 mins🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Set Collection, Take That A banquet with the Queen sounds fun right? Well it can be, as long as you don’t mind a little backstabbing, spying and some court intrigue with your food! We’ve been busy playing Courtisans, a 2-5 player game where you try to influence which families at … Continue reading Case File: Courtisans
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-5⏳Time: 45 minutes🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Modular board, dice rolling, map reduction, take that, memory Survive: Escape from Atlantis is back with a new name - Survive the Island.This reimplementation from Zygomatic Games is very much the same game we know and love, with a few key differences. Can you Survive the Island? In Survive the … Continue reading Case File: Survive The Island
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