Gatsby Review – Lavish party or lost love?
Depending on your age and demographics, you can think of it as a rap battle, an Errol Flynn duel, or, for me, the insult swordfighting from Monkey Island.
Game Type: Competitive - high interaction
Competitive games with high interaction
Malabares Review – Trick-taking, juggling brilliance
Ladies, gentlemen, children, and everyone in between. Roll up, roll up! We have a brand new Lacerda game to look at today. That’s right, a new Lacerda game, and it’s a Lacerda game you probably haven’t even heard of, let alone played
Digit Code Review – Code-breaking fun for two
I love it. No pretence. No trying to make something fit which really doesn’t, like a hermit crab wearing a Coke can. It’s just a case of the game mechanisms being enough to sell the game on their own, and you know what? They do. Digit Code is great.
Gwent Review – You want peace? Fight for it!
If you know the differences between different Gwent versions, you know what to expect. If you’ve no idea what I’m blathering about, don’t worry about it. This review is for you, Gwent newbie.
Lunar Trick Review – Dark side of the moon?
I hadn’t seen anything like it, and the idea of three suits which changed, and knowing that trump cards could be in one, two, or even all three suits, had me intrigued.
Cat Chi Cat Review – Tell your cat I said ‘pspspsps’
Cat Chi Cat has a really simple premise which plays out in ten to twenty minutes, and I love the moment when people truly get it
Guessocracy Review – Dicing with democracy
In that fleeting time, those precious three seconds, you have to scan your eyes over the cubic mess in the box and try to figure out two things simultaneously
Shuffle And Swing Review
Shuffle and Swing is a colourful dollop of jazz rondel fun which just about everyone will enjoy.
Hoplomachus: Remastered & Pandora’s Wake Expansion Review
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.
Spectral Review
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
