👨👩👧👦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: 2-6⏳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
Rivages is a pass and write boardgame where you explore the islands in search of lost knowledge
You've been a slave-gardener for as long as you can remember. And now, everything has been thrown into chaos. The Necrodruid, your old master is dead. You've escaped, but into what? It's hard to be sure. Is the world dying or just being reborn? All the other escapees are looking to you as leader - … Continue reading 7th Citadel Review
👨👩👧👦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
👨👩👧👦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!
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