Finspan Review
Whether you're sick of -span games or not, Finspan is here, and you know what? It's good.
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Board game reviews and previews
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Board game reviews and previews
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Civolution Review
Slamming into 2025 with a portmanteau then. A game about the evolution of your civilisation – that’d be Civolution then! It’s a heavily abstracted game about exploring and exploiting a fictional continent while your civilisation evolves and improves. It’s from…
Cosmoctopus Review
Fans of lighter games, families dipping their toes in the waters of modern board games, and those of you who are part of a group that welcomes new members from time to time will take a lot from it
Roll Player Review
A game about making a character for another game. Is that really a game? It turns out that yes, it most definitely is a game, and a fun game at that.
SpellBook Review
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.
Point City Review
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.
Earth Review
Earth is the ideal game to play while you're sitting around a table with people you like, having a chill time making little wooden towers.
Books Of Time Review
Books of Time hit me right in the nostalgia. Not because I've played another game like it, because I'm not sure I have, but because of the sound.
KAPOW! Volume 1 Review
I wonder how you're meant to say the name of this game. Do I turn up to my local game group and say "Hey guys, who wants to play KAPOW!?". I'd scare the crap out of them.
Isle of Trains: All Aboard Preview
In Isle of Trains: All Aboard, you won't be building tracks or buying and selling shares like in my other favourite choo-choo games. This is about the trains!