Board game reviews and previews
Board game reviews and previews
Shake That City is a tile-laying puzzle game with really light rules. The (very tenuous) theme has you choosing a series of tiles to make your own little city on your 5x5 grid boards. "But Adam, how am I - a lowly civil engineer - meant to choose which buildings and infrastructure go into my city?". Don't worry, friend, that's where the cube shaker comes in.
GridCon is an annual board game convention held in the South-West of the UK. It just so happens that I a) live a couple of hours down the road from it, and b) am a Patreon supporter of the organiser, Paul Grogan, so there was no way I wasn't going back again this year.
You're on a shuttle, heading from Ganymede (one of Jupiter's moons) to one of the moons of a red dwarf called Demeter. You're heading there because they're extremely similar to Earth, and as luck would have it, they've discovered dinosaurs on one of the moons.
Dinosaurs. In. Space.
Pearladora is a game set around a series of lagoons, and in these lagoons are piles of pearls, just waiting to be claimed. The inhabitants of the islands, dotted around the lagoons, want to be the best and to collect the most pearls.
In the first of a series of reviews of new French games, this is Hiroba. Hiroba is a quick and light game from publisher Funnyfox which leans heavily on the gameplay concepts of Sudoku.
Terracotta Army is based on the creation of the army of statues for the mausoleum of Qin Shi Shuang, who was the first emperor of China. In the game, the emperor has died, and you play the role of one of his craftspeople.
When is a T-game not a T-game? The answer is... I'm not sure. Board&Dice have a line of games that are lovingly referred to as the T-games, and I've covered some of them before. Let's take a look at Tiletum.
This is your chance to win a game. I'm in the very fortunate position of having some new, sealed games courtesy of Ravensburger UK, Big Potato Games, and Kosmos Games, that need a home. Maybe that could be your home.
I'd love to stroke a bumblebee, they look sooo fluffy. Waggle Dance is a new version of the classic game from Mike Nudd, from Bright Eye Games.
All too often I've seen the hype for new games fade quicker than a cheap sparkler, but here we are, a year later, and people are still talking about Ark Nova. Mathias Wigge might not be a name you knew a year ago, so should you know it now?