Zenith Review – A planetary tug-of-war for two
Zenith is a tableau-building game with multi-use cards, tracks to climb, and five fronts to compete on, a la Lost Cities. If that sentence doesn't get your heart racing, you must be dead inside.
Tag Tableau-building
Tableau building is similar to engine building. Usually with cards, you try to collect cards which work well together.
Symbiosis Review – A small fish in a big pond
Symbiosis is a charming, really well-designed card game that packs a lot of fun into a short playtime.
Personal Demons Preview – Devilishly good tableau-building
Personal Demons is the first game in a long time that I've been genuinely sad to box up and move on. I want to keep it and play it more.
Yotei Review – Hot potato!
Imagine if you took a game like Splendor and filled it with potatoes instead of gems. That's Yotei! Review's over, on you go.
Carnuta Review – My new favourite tableau-builder
I picked Carnuta up on Friday evening. It's now Monday afternoon, and I've honestly lost count of how many plays I've racked up.
Point Galaxy Review – Out of this world tableau building
Point Galaxy is absolutely slathered with the Point game jam that Shawn, Molly, and Robert cook up in the Flatout Games kitchen.
Fetching Feathers Preview – Ornithological refinement
It's a familiar game, for sure, but I think it's more like a refinement than anything else. It's like making the most amazing sandwich, then someone saying, "You know what, let's see what happens when we add fewer flavours of crisps in this".
Between Two Castles: Essential Edition Review – Rock and a hard place?
Once you have more than four people sitting at the table, that's when Between Two Castles has its 'hold my beer' moment.
Boreal Review – A pyramid scheme for two
Sometimes a game is good enough to stand on its own. It has a theme, but that theme is like a dog wearing a bumblebee costume - it's cute, but it's not fooling anyone.
Jackpot: Set The Reel Preview – Winner, winner, cherry dinner
The combination of trying to do well in the current round whilst setting things up for the next round is at the heart of Jackpot. And you know what? It's tricky. It's really tricky.
Finspan Review
Whether you're sick of -span games or not, Finspan is here, and you know what? It's good.
Courtisans Review
What's on the menu? Hors d'oeuvres of influence & backstabbing, followed by a main course of skullduggery and shenanigans.