Kronologic: Paris 1920 Review
The designers have built the game on the back of a cool card masking gimmick, helping it deliver a cracking deduction game in half an hour. Think Clue meets The Search for Planet X and you're getting somewhere close.
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Inventions: Evolution of Ideas Review
Inventions is a great game. It's a very expensive game, so make sure it's one that will fit with your group, but if does, you'll love it. It's an ever-changing puzzle which your brain will simultaneously love and hate while you try to solve it.
El Grande Review – Does the Granddaddy of Area Control still rule?
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.
Courtisans Review
What's on the menu? Hors d'oeuvres of influence & backstabbing, followed by a main course of skullduggery and shenanigans.
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.
Battalion: War Of The Ancients Review
Battalion is a game which masquerades as a wargame, has all the theme and trappings of a war game, but plays more like an asymmetric dueling card game.
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 civilisation evolves and improves. It’s from…
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.
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.
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.
The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth Review
You can keep your Marvel and Cthulhu cash-ins, it does nothing for me. Yet here I am singing the praises of a game I love that's wearing Tolkien's fantasy garb.
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.