Medium-weight games
I’m winding back the years again today with another in the Play Something Old series of retrospectives. This time it’s the turn of Stefan Feld’s oft-overlooked 2007 game, Notre Dame. Notre Dame takes place in the French city of the…
It's a game where you roll dice and use them to take actions in the French town of Troyes in the 1200s. Phwoar! If that doesn't get you hot under the collar, are you even human?!
Choosing what happens in your story is at the core of Fighting Fantasy, so seeing it preserved in the game is wonderful.
Sanctuary is lighter than Ark Nova, but still enough to get your teeth stuck into, and yes, I believe there's space in your collection for both.
Railway Boom's hook, its something special, its little bit of ooh-la-la, is the bidding mechanism that underpins nearly everything that happens.
Ayar does things differently from its predecessors, but still retains the feel and atmosphere of them while offering something wholly different. I think it might be the best of the bunch.
As someone who doesn't usually reach for a skirmish game, I went into Doom with a sense of apprehension, hoping that the Doom feel would carry through, and to its credit, it does a really good job of it.
A new Stefan Feld game arriving is always exciting to me. You never quite know what you're going to get.
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.
Once you have more than four people sitting at the table, that's when Between Two Castles has its 'hold my beer' moment.