Board game reviews and previews
Board game reviews and previews
A love letter to the series, in the form of a lavish, rewarding masterpiece of game design, and I cannot wait to play it again. I honestly can't. I want to dig around in the fantasy sandbox and see what happens next. Just remember what I've told you here today. Forewarned is forearmed, adventurer.
Tokaido is still Tokaido. It was a great, light game thirteen years ago, and it's still a great, light game.
Galactic Cruise is a Joy. It'll be a tough act for Kinson Key to follow, and I really hope they manage to. Stellar stuff.
Everything about it feels refined, and by boiling it down with the new graphic design Chip Theory have extracted the essence of what makes a good skirmish game.
The designers have built the game on the back of a cool card masking gimmick, helping it deliver a cracking deduction game in half an hour. Think Clue meets The Search for Planet X and you're getting somewhere close.
Inventions is a great game. It's a very expensive game, so make sure it's one that will fit with your group, but if does, you'll love it. It's an ever-changing puzzle which your brain will simultaneously love and hate while you try to solve it.
My chosen board game world is one of muted beige and dry themes, so Tenpenny Parks stands out like a neon helter-skelter in the middle of it. I love it for that.
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…
Shackleton base is built around some seemingly simple actions which belie how deep and malleable the game is. Like a drainpipe full of play-doh, maybe.
The struggle between nature and progress is delivered beautifully in the best two-player board game I've played in a long time.