Gutenberg Review
The first thing you'll notice when you see Gutenberg on the table are the cardboard gears. I dare you to not play with the cogs, making them spin, as if you were two-years-old playing with a Fisher Price toy
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Game Length Medium (30-90 mins)
Medium length games
Iki Review
Iki rejects the usual tropes of samurai, ninjas, and bug-eyed anthropomorphic cartoon animals. Instead, it transports us back to feudal Japan
Amulet of Thrayax Preview
Not too many games put you in charge of your own cult. Fewer still task you with collecting the souls of the host city's inhabitants by killing them all.
44 BCE Preview
BCE 44 builds on the infamous events of the eponymous year when Julius Caesar was assassinated on the floor of the Senate, by a group of senators who worried that he had too much power over the empire
By Stealth and Sea Review
I have a lifelong fascination with submarines. I don't know where it came from, or why it persists, but something about underwater warfare just does it for me. With my recent foray into wargames, it seemed like the perfect time to take the plunge, if you'll pardon the pun
Origins: First Builders Review
Origins: First Builders puts you in a world where these aliens have popped over to say hi, and are willing to teach us all about building and warfare, and all that good stuff.
Magnate: The First City Review
"Ooh, it looks like Monopoly! Is it like Monopoly?". No, friend, this game is Magnate: The First City, and it's nothing like Monopoly
A War Of Whispers Review
A War Of Whispers turns area-control on its head, with a game full of subterfuge, misdirection, and cunning.
Pendulum Review
Real-time worker-placement?? What on Earth were they thinking? As Dr. Malcom said in Jurassic Park: "your scientists were so precoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should". I'm not sure there were many scientists involved with designing Pendulum, but you get the idea.
Zapotec Review
If you think of Board&Dice, you probably think of heavy Euro games with ancient historical themes. Traditionally, these have always started with 'T', so I wondered what I'd find when I received Zapotec in the mail.