For me, though, Kanal is another of those games I'll return to again and again when I have an hour to myself and want to get away from the screen. A delicious solo puzzle ice cream with Rosenberg ripples throughout.
If you like trick-taking games, especially those with a little bit of needle in them, a little bit of take-that, you'll have a great time with Idle Hands
Magical Athlete is the Black Sheep of the family. The nonconformist. The maverick. The 'bad game' which is an absolute blast to play.
D.O.T is the game I keep thinking about, and the one I keep wanting to go back and play around with a little more.
It's a familiar game, for sure, but I think it's more like a refinement than anything else. It's like making the most amazing sandwich, then someone saying, "You know what, let's see what happens when we add fewer flavours of crisps in this".
Depending on your age and demographics, you can think of it as a rap battle, an Errol Flynn duel, or, for me, the insult swordfighting from Monkey Island.
Ladies, gentlemen, children, and everyone in between. Roll up, roll up! We have a brand new Lacerda game to look at today. That's right, a new Lacerda game, and it's a Lacerda game you probably haven't even heard of, let alone played
Once you have more than four people sitting at the table, that's when Between Two Castles has its 'hold my beer' moment.
Solstis is one of those games where you need your head on a swivel. Knowing what your opponent is up to is as important as knowing what you are doing.
Sometimes a game is good enough to stand on its own. It has a theme, but that theme is like a dog wearing a bumblebee costume - it's cute, but it's not fooling anyone.
The combination of trying to do well in the current round whilst setting things up for the next round is at the heart of Jackpot. And you know what? It's tricky. It's really tricky.
I love it. No pretence. No trying to make something fit which really doesn't, like a hermit crab wearing a Coke can. It's just a case of the game mechanisms being enough to sell the game on their own, and you know what? They do. Digit Code is great.