Competitive games with low interaction
Ringyo (Ringyō / 林業) is a game about forestry in Edo-period Japan. Well, kinda. It’s more accurate to say that it’s a game where you’re a Daimyo in Japan overseeing a province covered in trees and floodwaters. I can honestly…
Railway Porters is a change of mechanism with the handfuls of dice being thrown, but it still retains their signature feel throughout.
We're not even halfway through 2026 at the time of writing, but Nippon Zaibatsu is an early frontrunner for my heavy game of the year. Wonderful stuff.
It's the life and death cycle which really makes Village stand out, though. There's no portrait of Dorian Gray, so the reaper is coming for everyone at some point.
Personal Demons is the first game in a long time that I've been genuinely sad to box up and move on. I want to keep it and play it more.
Saying things like "Village, Market, Village, Village, Smithy, and I now have 10 to spend" never gets old.
Knitting Circle is still a fantastic puzzle that fans of games like Calico, Azul, and River Valley Glassworks will really enjoy
Celeste can't sit with her back to the window, and Grandpa smells. So how do you arrange the seating so that everyone is happy? Saashi & Saashi have taken the concept with The Great Evening Banquet and turned it into a game
Championship Manager on your table? Not quite, but not far off!
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."