👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-6⏳Time: 1 hour🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Co-op, Memory, Real-Time Welcome to A5 Logistics, <employee name>! We look forward to extracting value from your skills and improving shareholder value this quarter! Will you be invaluable to the company, or expendable? Let's jump into your first week in the warehouse, and find out! Welcome to the family! Wilmot's … Continue reading Case File: Wilmot’s Warehouse
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 1 - 4⏳Time: 30 - 60 minutes🎂Ages: 14+⚙️Mechanisms: Co-operative, deduction Have you found yourself watching medical drama shows like House or Grey's Anatomy, and trying to solve the cases before the characters on the show? Then you'll love Medical Mysteries: New York Emergency Room from Identity Games. In this game, you're working the graveyard shift … Continue reading Case File: Medical Mysteries: New York Emergency Room
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 3-6⏳Time: 20 minutes🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Co-operative, limited communication, predictive bid It's been about 20 years since I last played poker. At no point in the last 20 years have I felt the urge to play poker again... That is until The Gang from Kosmos made its way to my table. Why am I talking about … Continue reading Case File: The Gang
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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: 2-8⏳Time: 25 minutes🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Cooperative, communication limits Have you ever wondered how raccoons would communicate? The answer is with trash, obviously! Trash Talk from Friendly Skeleton is a cooperative limited communication game for 2 - 8 players. One player is a raccoon, attempting to talk to possums (the other players) using trash. Each object the … Continue reading Case File: Trash Talk
You might find it surprising to learn that Sherlock Holmes wasn't really that brilliant of a detective after all. In fact, in a manner of speaking, he was more or less 4 small animals in a trenchcoat. Well... not literally. But as we will discover in our adventures with The Animals Of Baker Street, he … Continue reading The Animals of Baker Street Review
The Illuminati are here for our books! Oh wait... hmm, just let me put on my glasses.. oh, Illiterati? I see. Well, nevertheless, we take threats to literacy seriously. It seems all we can do, is knuckle down and work hard on reconstructing these lost words to bind back into books before the Illiterati make … Continue reading Illiterati Review
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