Between Two Castles: Essential Edition Review – Rock and a hard place?
Once you have more than four people sitting at the table, that’s when Between Two Castles has its ‘hold my beer’ moment.
Game Complexity: Medium
Medium-weight games
Jackpot: Set The Reel Preview – Winner, winner, cherry dinner
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.
Mars Expedition: SOL43 Review – Out of this world logic puzzles
Mars Expedition: SOL43 pits you as someone in the combined roles of geologist, navigator, cryptologist, physicist and many more besides, exploring our red neighbour, trying to unlock its secrets.
Great Western Trail: El Paso Review – All hat and no Cowboy?
Seemingly coming from out of nowhere, Lookout Games blindsided us with Great Western Trail: El Paso, a new, smaller, more accessible version of the game.
Eternal Decks Review – Deck Management Excellence
While Eternal Decks may not be a hand-crafted game you bought from some guy in a trenchcoat in a back alley in Shibuya, it still feels like that not-quite-so-well-hidden gem at the moment
Shuffle And Swing Review
Shuffle and Swing is a colourful dollop of jazz rondel fun which just about everyone will enjoy.
Hoplomachus: Remastered & Pandora’s Wake Expansion Review
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.
Puzzle Post – The Disappearance
The acid test for me when it comes to these games where you want to feel immersion in a mystery is how realistic the things included seem. The Disappearance nails it.
Finspan Review
Whether you’re sick of -span games or not, Finspan is here, and you know what? It’s good.
Rebirth Review
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.
