👨👩👧👦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
👨👩👧👦Players: 2⏳Time: 20 Minutes🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Dice rolling, Tug of War We’ve been busy playing King of Tokyo Duel. It’s a new version of the classic monster-battling dice chucker of the same name that’s been designed specifically for two players. For those who haven’t played any of the ‘King of’ games, they consist of rolling dice … Continue reading Case File: King of Tokyo Duel
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-8⏳Time: 15-30 mins🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Card Shedding, Take That Steph and I like to think that we’re nice most of the time. Not all of the time though, because when it comes to games, we’re very competitive. We’ve recently had the chance to try out a new card game called Mean! that really let that … Continue reading Case File: Mean!
👨👩👧👦Players: 1-10⏳Time: 45 minutes🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Hand management, simultaneous action selection, cooperative mode 6 nimmt! returns again, this time with a 30th-anniversary edition! If you're unfamiliar with 6 nimmt!, the aim is to finish the game with the lowest score. All cards have between 1-7 bullheads, worth 1 point each. Every turn, you will be playing … Continue reading Case File: 6 nimmt! (30th Anniversary Edition)
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 30-60 minutes🎂Ages: 12+⚙️Mechanisms: Action Selection, Tableau Building It’s a race…FOR THE GALAXY! We’re still fairly new to modern gaming, having only started in the past six or so years. It means we’ve played plenty of great newer games, but every so often we find we’ve missed a classic. Race for the Galaxy is … Continue reading Case File: Race for the Galaxy
Wow, what a great time I had at PAX Australia 2024! I'm just back from a whirlwind weekend at the convention, and it's time to sit down and write about what I saw. I took the opportunity to experience some unreleased designs that people had brought to PAX to test and spruik. Of course, PAX … Continue reading 2024 Pax Australia Indie Tabletop Round-Up
👨👩👧👦Players: 1-6⏳Time: 45-60 mins🎂Ages: 14+⚙️Mechanisms: Hand management, Action Selection We’ve been having a blast playing Libertalia – Winds of Galecrest. In this game you are the captain of a flying pirate ship, part of a fleet that lands on a different island each day in search of treasure. It’s played over three rounds, each broken … Continue reading Case File: Libertalia Winds of Galecrest
👨👩👧👦Players: 1-4⏳Time: 20-60 minutes🎂Ages: 9+⚙️Mechanisms: Co-operative, hand management, variable player powers, action points Have you ever watched an old supernatural film and wondered how you would fare against the creature? Well, in Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze by Iello Games you're given the chance to take on the role of a hero and find out... in … Continue reading Case File: Unmatched Adventures: Tales To Amaze
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 25 minutes🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Cooperative, communication limits I love small portable games, and I'm a huge fan of co-ops, so you can imagine how excited I was when I discovered Wave from Kosmos ticked both those boxes. Will you be able to ride the perfect wave? In this surfing-themed game, you work together to try … Continue reading Case File: Wave
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 30-60 mins🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Card Drafting, Set Collection, Time Management If you had a time machine where would you go? Would you sculpt with Michelangelo, fly with the Wright brothers, or maybe watch Queen perform at Live Aid? Those are just some of the great places you can visit in Trekking Through History, which … Continue reading Case File: Trekking Through History
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