👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 20 minutes🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Open drafting, set collection A new game has been hitting my table, and I've been absolutely charmed by the adorable dragons in it. Dragonkeepers from Kosmos is a fun new card game, with art and design by Michael Menzel (of Legends of Andor and The Adventures of Robin Hood fame). Can … Continue reading Case File: Dragonkeepers
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 20-30 mins🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Hand Management, Area Control Spring has sprung here in Australia, so fittingly we’ve been playing Flowers from Lookout Games. It’s for 2-4 players and is a spin-off of the two player only game Mandala. In Flowers, players take turns adding coloured cards to the three mandala locations. Once all six … Continue reading Case File: Flowers (A Mandala Game)
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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
As is usual, trouble is brewing in the woodlands. Oh wait.... wrong game. Uh, in space! Trouble is brewing in space. The woodspaceland creatures are all getting ready to prove who is the dominant furryscaly critter in this neck of the .. space. Hm, I'm struggling with this. Remember Root? What if it was in … Continue reading Arcs Review
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 15 minutes🎂Ages: 7+⚙️Mechanisms: Tile placement Mashing up two songs results in bangers like Never Gonna Wake You Up (Avicii x Rick Astley). If you link two childhood games together (specifically Tic-Tac-Toe and Rock Paper Scissors), you get Linx from Matagot! Two games link together to become... Linx In Linx, players attempt to get … Continue reading Case File: Linx
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-5⏳Time: 30-45🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Set collection, Movement Hudson the hedgehog needs your help! In Butterfly, a cute little game for 2-5 players, you take turns moving Hudson around the board collecting interesting insects! Look at all those interesting insects! On your turn you can either stay facing the current direction, or turn 90 degrees left or … Continue reading Case File: Butterfly
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 40 mins🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Card Drafting, Worker Movement Deep in the forest, where no human has ever set foot, live the fairies. Dancing from mushroom to mushroom, they build their villages and visit their neighbours as they collect the mana needed to get them through the upcoming winter. In Fairy Ring, you are trying … Continue reading Case File: Fairy Ring
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