Cat Chi Cat Review – Tell your cat I said ‘pspspsps’

Cat Chi Cat has a really simple premise which plays out in ten to twenty minutes, and I love the moment when people truly get it
Strategy games

Cat Chi Cat has a really simple premise which plays out in ten to twenty minutes, and I love the moment when people truly get it

The aim of the game is to fill the different rooms aboard your liner as efficiently as possible, using one of my favourite mechanisms in all of gaming, the humble mancala. With plenty of tactical space to play in, Come Sail Away is excellent. Come aboard, and let me tell you why.

Skedaddling represents a passenger choosing to get off at an unplanned stop, impulsively. This is the true joy of riding a bus

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A love letter to the series, in the form of a lavish, rewarding masterpiece of game design, and I cannot wait to play it again. I honestly can't. I want to dig around in the fantasy sandbox and see what happens next. Just remember what I've told you here today. Forewarned is forearmed, adventurer.

Tokaido is still Tokaido. It was a great, light game thirteen years ago, and it's still a great, light game.

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Galactic Cruise is a Joy. It'll be a tough act for Kinson Key to follow, and I really hope they manage to. Stellar stuff.

Everything about it feels refined, and by boiling it down with the new graphic design Chip Theory have extracted the essence of what makes a good skirmish game.

Whether you're sick of -span games or not, Finspan is here, and you know what? It's good.

Three years ago I wrote a post about whether Reiner Knizia could stay relevant as a modern designe. I should have known better than to doubt him.