Game Type Competitive - low interaction

Competitive games with low interaction

Akropolis Review

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Akropolis would be tricky enough if was just a case of planning your own city because there are a buttload of decisions to make with every single tile choice and every single tile placement.

Beyond The Sun Review

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Beyond The Sun is absolutely brilliant. I don't go around making claims like that without being able to back it up, so let's get into it.

Trekking Through History Review

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Sometimes you want a game that cuts through the layers upon layers of complexity of modern Euro games and instead emphasises doing one thing, and doing it well. Trekking Through History's thing is set collection, and it's something it does very well

Atiwa Review

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Atiwa hit shelves after a successful launch at Essen Spiel '22. It's a game about bats, and you know what? I think it might be my favourite Uwe Rosenberg game.

Verdant Review

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Flatout Games has built a good name for itself with its previous games, Calico and Cascadia. Verdant picks up the baton and keeps running, delivering another solid, clever game

Eleven Review

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Eleven surprised me. Eleven has shown me that it is possible to make a good game based around a sport, as long as it doesn't try to directly mimic the sport itself.

Obsession Review

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Let me guess. You found your way here because you're board-game-curious and heard that Obsession has a Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen vibe. How am I doing so far?

Shake That City Review

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Shake That City is a tile-laying puzzle game with really light rules. The (very tenuous) theme has you choosing a series of tiles to make your own little city on your 5x5 grid boards. "But Adam, how am I - a lowly civil engineer - meant to choose which buildings and infrastructure go into my city?". Don't worry, friend, that's where the cube shaker comes in.

Demeter + Autumn & Winter Expansion Review

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You're on a shuttle, heading from Ganymede (one of Jupiter's moons) to one of the moons of a red dwarf called Demeter. You're heading there because they're extremely similar to Earth, and as luck would have it, they've discovered dinosaurs on one of the moons.

Dinosaurs. In. Space.