Doggerland Review – Your new favourite glacial retreat

If you played Stone Age and loved the theme, or wished there was a bit more to the game, then Doggerland was basically made for you.
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If you played Stone Age and loved the theme, or wished there was a bit more to the game, then Doggerland was basically made for you.

I like Tianxia a lot; it does things you rarely see in modern games.

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.

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.

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.

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

Is Arcs the best game ever? No. Is it a chaotic, unbalanced mess? No, it's not that either. Arcs is a superb game which comes with a few caveats to get the most from it.

When you're constantly being namechecked in the same sentence as BGG's number one game of all time, you're doing something right.

The spreading tendrils of your empires eventually intertwine, and that's where the interaction begins. The interaction is what drives Eclipse and makes it as much fun as it is.