Medium length games
Basilica is another new game which puts you in the role of cathedral builder extraordinaire. It's a game where two of you battle to be the best builder, and let me tell you, when I say battle, I mean battle. Things are going to get feisty
As Eddie Izzard once said, over here in Europe we've got tons of castles. So many, that we've all got one each.
Agriculture and board games make good bedfellows. There's something very satisfying about taking a patch of land and watching your little business or farm grow.
Cubitos is a racing game from John D. Clair (Dead Reckoning, Mystic Vale, Space Base) and Alderac, which mixes frenetic jockeying for position with bag-building.
Designer extraordinaire - Reiner Knizia - created this deck-building game of exploration and adventure. Does it scratch that mosquito bite yearning for jungle escapades?
In Isle of Trains: All Aboard, you won't be building tracks or buying and selling shares like in my other favourite choo-choo games. This is about the trains!
A train game with a share and investment structure, but not too dense, and you still get to play with tiny trains?
Maybe it's a generational thing, but when I first heard of Moonrakers, I assumed it was something to do with the strangest James Bond film - Moonraker. It's not though, it's a deck-building semi-coop game from publisher IV Games, and it's very clever.
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
Iki rejects the usual tropes of samurai, ninjas, and bug-eyed anthropomorphic cartoon animals. Instead, it transports us back to feudal Japan