Medium-weight games
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.
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.
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 is a colourful dollop of jazz rondel fun which just about everyone will enjoy.
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.
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.
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.
Ryan Courtney has put together a cracking deduction game which, despite only taking half an hour to play, delivers a fully-fledged brain-burning experience
I've loved El Grande from the first time I played it. It's a classic for a reason, and this reprint just makes it better in my opinion.