Board game reviews and previews
Board game reviews and previews
Board games and card games have never been more popular, and new people join the hobby daily. Maybe you want to join them. Maybe you want to get into board games in 2024 but don't know how or where to start.
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Explorers of Navoria is a concise, streamlined, tableau-building game, and I really like it.
Sea Salt & Paper is a great game which now happily nestles in my travel back of 'card games to play anywhere with anyone' along with the likes of Scout and 6 Nimmt.
Each turn, you'll each choose two foxes - a mummy and a daddy - to have a special cuddle which will result in a baby fox. Ask your parents.
The White Castle packs a lot of game into a small box. Ugh, there, I said it. Are you happy?
That's right people, I've got my finger on the pulse and am giving you - the game-loving, hotness-buying board game players - exactly what you want. 16-year-old games that nobody talks about any more.
Factory 42 takes the standard Euro worker-placement formula of 'get stuff, make different stuff, get points for the new stuff' and adds some pretty radical twists.
Stop Press! Woodland creatures produce their own newspapers!
Blasting through the Spiel Essen 2023 small box noise like a double-barreled shotgun comes a new game from the double-barrel surnamed Phil Walker-Harding.
When is a city-builder, not a city-builder? When it's an engine-builder. Point City is a quick, bright, and easy game about building a city.