Category: Reviews

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El Grande Review

I’ve loved El Grande from the first time I played it. It’s a classic for a reason, and this reprint just makes it better in my opinion.

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Courtisans Review

What’s on the menu? Hors d’oeuvres of influence & backstabbing, followed by a main course of skullduggery and shenanigans.

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Tenpenny Parks Review

My chosen board game world is one of muted beige and dry themes, so Tenpenny Parks stands out like a neon helter-skelter in the middle of it. I love it for that.

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Civolution Review

Slamming into 2025 with a portmanteau then. A game about the evolution of your civilisation – that’d be Civolution then! It’s a heavily abstracted game about exploring and exploiting a fictional continent while your...

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Shackleton Base Review

Shackleton base is built around some seemingly simple actions which belie how deep and malleable the game is. Like a drainpipe full of play-doh, maybe.

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Ironwood Review

The struggle between nature and progress is delivered beautifully in the best two-player board game I’ve played in a long time.

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GridCon 5 (2024) Convention Report

I got back from 2024’s event yesterday, so while it’s all still fresh in my head, let me tell you all about it because it was good. It was really good.

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Lacuna Review

It’s a beautiful two-player game that takes less than ten minutes to play and is so simple you wonder why you haven’t played it before, while simultaneously making you wish you had.