Yokai Pagoda Review – Creature feature
Yokai Pagoda gives you a couple of basic decisions to make at all times, but the spell it conjures in its little ludo cauldron are powerful.
Game Type Competitive - high interaction
Competitive games with high interaction
Decko Review – Upping the ante with deck-builders
You get the feel of that Balatro-ish hand-warping craziness, but without having to count past a million.
Ryugu Preview – Everything’s better down where it’s wetter
An early prototype of Ryugu was kindly provided by 14Games. All artwork and rules are subject to change. Thoughts & opinions are my own. Ryugu The Fleeting Paradise, to give it its full name, is a clean, colourful new worker-placement…
Chicago & Northwestern Review – Express trains
Chicago & Northwestern is the distilled spirit of cube rails. It’s mainline meanness moonshine, and it’s pretty awesome.
Zenith Review – A planetary tug-of-war for two
Zenith is a tableau-building game with multi-use cards, tracks to climb, and five fronts to compete on, a la Lost Cities. If that sentence doesn't get your heart racing, you must be dead inside.
Snow Planner Review – Off-piste worker-placement fun
Snow Planner takes the concept of a dice-as-workers game, layers on a lovely theme, and delivers a really solid Japanese import special.
Greylune Review – Let’s set the story straight
The little box makes it feel like it's going to be something smaller and lighter, but there's a thick, juicy game here.
Kobayakawa Review – One card, five stars?
It's a cliché to say it, but Kobayakawa is much greater than the sum of its parts.
Tally Up Review – Party gambling brilliance
Tally up is great, and for around £15 it's really a question of why shouldn't you buy it?
Eternal Sevens Review – Seventh Heaven
Eternal Sevens does for Sevens what Eternal Decks did for games like The Crew or Hanabi.
Play Something Old: Citadels
My battered old copy of Citadels still gets played, and it will continue to for years to come.
Joraku Review – Go West!
It's a cliché to say that Japanese designers a) love trick-taking games, and b) do trick-taking better than anyone else, but when you play a game like Joraku you understand where it comes from.