Long games
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you’re constantly being namechecked in the same sentence as BGG’s number one game of all time, you’re doing something right.
The spreading tendrils of your empires eventually intertwine, and that’s where the interaction begins. The interaction is what drives Eclipse and makes it as much fun as it is.
If you’re looking for the short version of “Is it any good?”, then I can confirm that yes, it is. Stick around and let me explain why.
