Wow, what a great time I had at PAX Australia 2025! This years PAX had more tabletop stuff than ever before and I took the opportunity to experience some unreleased designs that people had brought to PAX to test and spruik. Of course, PAX is huge, and there were SO many games being play-tested in … Continue reading 2025 Pax Australia Indie Tabletop Round-Up
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-6⏳Time: 15-20 mins🎂Ages: 14+⚙️Mechanisms: Hand management, take that, player elimination, score and reset Would you investigate a mystery if there was a risk you could go insane? That's exactly what you'll do in Arkham Horror: Lovecraft Letter from Zman Games. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." Arkham Horror: Lovecraft Letter is a 2-6 player … Continue reading Case File: Arkham Horror: Lovecraft Letter
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 1-5⏳Time: 45-60 Minutes🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Card Placement, Engine Building Fishie-span…ahh I mean Finspan, is the third game in the Wingspan universe. Set in the ocean, you play as a marine researcher whose job is to discover new fish as you explore the murky depths. Finspan is played over four rounds of six turns each. You … Continue reading Case File: Finspan
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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: 2-8⏳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
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