Competitive games with low interaction
I’m winding back the years again today with another in the Play Something Old series of retrospectives. This time it’s the turn of Stefan Feld’s oft-overlooked 2007 game, Notre Dame. Notre Dame takes place in the French city of the…
I picked Carnuta up on Friday evening. It's now Monday afternoon, and I've honestly lost count of how many plays I've racked up.
"Unnecessary, slightly too sensual, but glorious all the same."
If you played Stone Age and loved the theme, or wished there was a bit more to the game, then Doggerland was basically made for you.
Point Galaxy is absolutely slathered with the Point game jam that Shawn, Molly, and Robert cook up in the Flatout Games kitchen.
Roller Disco is a ladder-climbing shedding game with a strong sense of style, unlike pretty much every other game with similar DNA.
Sanctuary is lighter than Ark Nova, but still enough to get your teeth stuck into, and yes, I believe there's space in your collection for both.
I like Tianxia a lot; it does things you rarely see in modern games.
Ayar does things differently from its predecessors, but still retains the feel and atmosphere of them while offering something wholly different. I think it might be the best of the bunch.
A new Stefan Feld game arriving is always exciting to me. You never quite know what you're going to get.