Medium-weight games
Ringyo (Ringyō / 林業) is a game about forestry in Edo-period Japan. Well, kinda. It’s more accurate to say that it’s a game where you’re a Daimyo in Japan overseeing a province covered in trees and floodwaters. I can honestly…
It's a cliché to say that Japanese designers a) love trick-taking games, and b) do trick-taking better than anyone else, but when you play a game like Joraku you understand where it comes from.
Caylus was different. Caylus was difficult. Caylus was mean. And you know what? I bloody love it for it.
It's the life and death cycle which really makes Village stand out, though. There's no portrait of Dorian Gray, so the reaper is coming for everyone at some point.
Terraria is a huge game based on a video game franchise with a big, hardcore following. So, for this review, I've added two separate sets of final thoughts. One for Terraria video game fans, and another for board gamers who don't know the game.
The aliens have sent their orbs to our home, our planet, our blue marble. Earth. They want to wipe out the population to build big factories, or farms, or theme parks - I'm not really sure what they want. But they want us gone.
Personal Demons is the first game in a long time that I've been genuinely sad to box up and move on. I want to keep it and play it more.
A review copy of The Glasgow Train Robbery was kindly provided by Salt & Pepper Games. Thoughts & opinions are my own. Let’s answer the two most important questions right off the bat. Yes, this is a game about The…
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.