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.
Competitive games with high interaction

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.

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

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.

What's on the menu? Hors d'oeuvres of influence & backstabbing, followed by a main course of skullduggery and shenanigans.

Battalion is a game which masquerades as a wargame, has all the theme and trappings of a war game, but plays more like an asymmetric dueling card game.

The struggle between nature and progress is delivered beautifully in the best two-player board game I've played in a long time.

Did you know there are only a few mammals in the world that lay eggs. They're called monotremes. One member of the monotreme family is the short-beaked echidna. Orbit is a game about tourists in space.

Sakana Stack is quick, easy, gorgeous to look at, and a lot of fun. It'll join the likes of Scout and Tokkuri Taking in my convention bag for some time to come.

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.

So far, so easy, you might think, and you'd be right. However, there are a couple of pretty big spanners you can throw into the mix, but your choice of spanners and when you want to toss them in depends on your ability to predict the future.