I'm going to tell you about a game where you're plunged into complete darkness, from start to end. A game where your blind fumblings are all that stand between a towns survival, and eradication at the hands (claws?) of creatures known as Scuttlers. Can you feel the hair on the back of your neck standing up yet?
Cooper Island is an unusual Euro game that marries worker-placement and tile-placement, along with a bit of resource management.Each player is developing their own peninsula of the oddly-shaped island, and resources are in short supply.
In this post you'll find my Top 5 games that are at least ten years old, that you can still buy easily, and that I believe still deserve a space in your collection.
Black Sonata puts you in London in the early 1600s, tracking down Shakespeare's elusive temptress and trying to determine her true identity.
If you're a regular visitor, you've probably noticed that things look a bit different around here now. I've refreshed the site with a redesign, and given it a lick of paint, and I think it's looking a lot nicer for it.
The first Chronicles of Crime game was set in present time, then came the follow-up, set in 1400. Fast-forward half a millennium, and we're looking at the latest game - Chronicles of Crime: 1900
So you're a Viking. And you're dead. You're a dead Viking. That's where Langskip starts off, in this light, small box game from Crab Studios. It holds the unusual honour of being the second Viking-themed race game I've played.
Holy alliteration Batman, it's a Pilfering Pandas preview! It's the third game from the husband and wife publishing duo, Wren Games, and it's on Kickstarter as I type these very words.
As part of my ongoing series of interviews with people involved in the board game industry, I was fortunate enough to have some of Keith Matejka's (Thunderworks Games) time.
I've got to start this review with a bit of a bombshell. Quacks of Quedlinburg (which I'll shorten to Quacks for the rest of the review) has NOTHING to do with ducks.