Railway Boom Review – Choo choose a great new game
Railway Boom's hook, its something special, its little bit of ooh-la-la, is the bidding mechanism that underpins nearly everything that happens.
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Game Length Long (90+ mins)
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The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era Review
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 Review
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: Evolution of Ideas Review
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.
El Grande Review
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.
Civolution Review
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 Review
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.
Arcs Review
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.
Roll Player Review
A game about making a character for another game. Is that really a game? It turns out that yes, it most definitely is a game, and a fun game at that.
Luthier Preview
The blind bidding clack-clack-clack of the worker disc placement adds a rich, bright counterpoint to the by-the-books Euro format of collecting resources to fulfil goals. A toccata to its fugue, if you like.