All Reviews

A bag building game where you only have 4 meeples in your bag sounds pretty boring doesn't it? But Lions ...

When people think of New Zealand, they probably think about one of two things; sheep or Lord of the Rings ...

Who doesn’t love dinosaurs? I sure do. And I also love Gods Love Dinosaurs. In addition to the very nice ...

The Quest for El Dorado is Reiner Knizia’s take on the deck-building genre. It has been more than 10 years ...

As Indiana Jones once said, “If you want to be a good archaeologist, you gotta get out of the library.” ...

Some of the best games out there are simple and elegant designs. Miyabi is definitely trying to be just that, ...

Thar’s gold in them thar hills. Wait, what’s that you say? It’s Bloom Town, not Boom Town? Oh, one second ...

I’ve hiked many trails in my life, but never one like the Trails of Tucana. As far as I know ...

It was a long-time wish of mine to play a Vital Lacerda game. I was a bit scared that I ...

Burano, Italy is a beautiful island that attracts a large number of tourists who seek the famous lace or maybe ...

Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer are at it again. They have, once again, joined forces to give us a classic, ...

Born among the wealthy, with a silver spoon in my mouth, I was made for a game about the aristocracy ...

The Mississippi river flows for 3730 km from Lake Itasca to the gulf of Mexico. The river derives its name ...

The original Chronicles of Crime remains my absolute favourite “solve the crime” style game. I’ve enjoyed all my plays of ...

Ever thought about running away and joining the circus, or perhaps starting your very own circus? No? Well, me either ...

Jetpack Joyride, designed by Lucky Duck Games, is a real-time competitive puzzle game. It’s an adaptation of the same-titled side-scrolling ...

It is well known that points salads are my game groups favorite kind of salad. We love to play games ...

Become a human cell, gathering the necessary macromolecules and ATP to complete what you were born to do in Cytosis: ...

Endeavor: Age of Sail is a remake of Endeavor by Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray from 2008. Burnt Island ...

No mana, very minimal resources and huge monsters is what makes Epic Card Game different from other dueling card games ...

Colonizing America is no easy easy task, but with the help of dice and titles you just might succeed. Santa ...

Thar’s gold in them thar hills! And what’s mining for gold without a little poker? End of the Trail puts ...

Who are you? Who will you become? What will make you who you are? We all have our own back ...

Fog of Love had a great deal of buzz about it when it was released in 2017. With its sleek ...

I used to play a lot of RPGs when I was younger. Not just classic pen and paper Dungeons and ...

King Nepomuk II has one request of you; to build the best castle for his Queen. It sounds simple enough, ...

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us” Gandalf spoke to ...

The gold rush has brought many people to your small town and being the enterprising self that you are, you ...

Being a big fan of deck building games I’m always interested in trying new takes on the concept. So I ...

Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North is a stand alone game set in the Imperial Settlers universe. It’s not compatible ...

Little Town is a charming little worker placement game. IELLO cleary aimed it at families and the more casual gamers, ...

The Mad King Ludwig - Ludwig II of Bavaria to his friends - was known to be a bit eccentric ...

Gain enlightenment during the Qin dynasty to become a Xian, an immortal “godly spirit” or manipulate tiles to gather cubes ...

What if I told you a tile placement game could be more than just building castles, roads and farms? What ...

Everdell is a worker-placement, engine and tableau builder designed by James A. Wilson and released by Starling Games. In the ...

Fertility is a very straightforward and charming game about placing domino style tiles on common board to obtain resources (Alabaster, ...

Tiny Towns is a quick puzzle of a game, featuring pattern matching and town building. Players take turns choosing 1 ...

If this tongue twister of a name doesn’t yet grab your attention, I hope the name of the designer will! ...

Wingspan is the newest game from Stonemaier Games. That is enough for some to be interested in this game. The ...

Choose and order, pick a hero and build your deck to take down your opponent in Lightseekers by Playfusion. Lightseekers ...

Build your fleet and destroy your opponent. As with most good space themed games or movies, Star Realms: Frontiers puts ...

A mere glance at the box of Blue Lagoon and the soundtrack of Disney’s “Moana” starts playing in the back ...

Tallinn is the largest and capital city of Estonia and also the second game in the Ostia Spiele series of ...

H₂O, CO₂, H₂SO₄. Water, carbon dioxide, sulfuric acid; these are molecular formulas most people would recognize. Well, maybe not sulfuric ...

In case you didn’t know, in the Netherlands in 1637 investment in Tulips were a thing. Not just any thing, ...

In Bard Saga you are on the search for the missing poem of the greatest bard of all time, Homer ...

“Beware the Ides of March,” or at least that is what we were taught Julius Caesar was warned less than ...

A game with a central mechanism of folding a piece of cloth? And a take that-ish fighting game on top ...

I once had a cookie recipe of mine in a contest to be the new fall offering at a local ...

I've recently had the privilege of getting an preview copy of Nanty Narking a retheme of DISCWORLD: ANKH-MORPORK. Because I've ...

You’ve probably heard the story before; elves and humans working together to fight off the invading orcs. You may know ...

Yamataï… A strange name for a game that’s both beautiful to look at and to play. But nevertheless that is ...

There are certain publishers that have earned my attention whenever they publish a new game and Daily Magic Games has ...

Welcome to... Postwar America! Confident that a bright and prosperous future now lies ahead, America’s population experiences an exponential growth ...

What do you get when you cross a trick taking game with plastic peacocks? a fan-tastic card game… But what ...

I’m not an alien, but if I was, I like to imagine I would be the kind of alien who ...

When I first got into board gaming, the first heavy game I played was Agricola. The second heavy game I ...

The hype is real. The Mind from NSV has been taking over the board game community by surprise and a ...

Travelling is a hobby of mine, and one of my favorite things to do is visit cities that aren’t the ...

I’m a big fan of ice cream in both senses of the word big, in that I really like ice ...

UPDATE: This Kickstarter campaign for Solar City is now live. You can find it here: Solar City on Kickstarter It’s ...

Flamme Rouge brings road bicycle racing to the gaming table. No other sport is as interwoven with my Flemish roots, ...

Transatlantic was the new game at Spiel Essen 2017 from PD-Verlag. It has gone through multiple stages and has been ...

Jurassic Snack is a light 2 player only game. Combining awesome dinosaur miniatures with a legendary designer (Bruno Cathala) really ...

The Fox in the Forest is a trick-taking game for two players from Renegade Game Studios and Foxtrot Games, designed ...

The premise in Cavern Tavern is simple: pick up an order, gather the ingredients for the drink, and deliver it ...

We are Merchants of Araby, trading magic, jewels, spices and fabric in order to create the most profitable business in ...

In Aura, a card game by Breaking Games, everyone is competing to have the most cards in their Aura at ...

Collecting dusty ancient books might not sound like a fun activity, nor a fun evocative theme for a board game ...

Growing up near one of the best Roller Coaster parks in the world left a soft spot in my heart ...

Pulsar 2849 is a game all about technology, pulsars, gyrodynes (gigantic generators that spin around pulsars to generate power) and ...

In my 4 years as an avid board gamer I’ve been all kind of heroes. I’ve protected medieval towns from ...

I love the classic card games like Euchre, Hearts and Spades, but after playing them for years they got a ...

In the midst of Barcelona, already 5 generations of citizens bore witness to the rising beauty of the Sagrada Familia ...

Round Houses, or Fujian Tulou, are essentially walled villages in rural China. In the game Round House, each player represents ...

It's no secret that deck-building is a favorite game mechanic of mine. Especially when it is done in a unique ...

In Planet Defenders you are controlling 3 robots trying to defend 9 planets from malfunctioning robots. As the theme might ...

Team against team. Spymaster against spymaster. Codenames: Pictures is an easy game to get into, but both challenging and fun ...

I love putting on a show and being the center of attention. Colosseum lets me do just that while assuming ...

Railroad Revolution, a game about the expanding railroad lines in the United States, puts the players in the shoes of ...

Augustus (or Rise of Augustus) is a light card drafting, set collection game with a twist. Designed by Paolo Mori, ...

Kanagawa is a Japanese prefecture of the Greater Tokyo Area. In the early 19th century (late Edo period) master painter ...

Unlike other games, in Noch Mal! (also called Encore! and Keer op Keer!) there is no theme. You are not ...

In 2016 the game I read and heard most about was Scythe. Designed by Jamey Stegmaier. It got a lot ...

Clank! is not only the name of the game it’s also one of the core elements of the game. In ...

Bloodborne: The Card Game is a card game, as the title cleverly puts it, where you want to get the ...

In The Networks you are the head of a fledgling television network and quite frankly you have nothing good to ...

Ice and Sky is my wife’s favourite game (and she doesn’t like a lot of games) and it’s a really ...

In Oceanos players are captains of a submarine exploring the deep blue sea. You will earn points by discovering coral ...

Vinhos is my first Vital Lacerda game. As a eurogamer I had long wanted to try out a game from ...

In Avenue players are harvesters, picking grapes and delivering the yield to the neighboring farms. Being provident, prudent and pushing your ...

In Lorenzo il Magnifico you play as the head of a noble family during the Italian renaissance. You spend your ...

Eternity is a beautiful card game about planting sacred trees to keep the balance between Sky, Earth and Sea. Don't ...

Heir to the Pharaoh is a two player game with many layers. It is a lush production (especially the Kickstarter ...

Papà Paolo is a medium weight, fast-paced eurogame that combines worker placement, bidding, and engine and city building. Players take on ...

Adrenaline is not the first game to try to emulate a first-person shooter game in boardgame form. It is however the ...

Tides of Infamy is a golden age of piracy free-for-all where the goal is to be the most infamous raider (obviously!) ...

I picked up Undercover at Essen SPIEL '16, right after playing it there. Since then I have already played it ...

Designed by the legendary Bruno Cathala, Kingdomino's title is a clever combination of the words Kingdom and Domino. It's actually also ...

13 Days is a game about getting through the Cuba Missile crisis without starting a nuclear war. It is a game ...

Vikings on Board is a game all about getting ready to go raiding. You need to get your fierce clan warriors on ...

In ZhanGuo you are officials who work for the first Emperor of China. You try to help him with unifying ...

In a nutshell Via Nebula is a very attractive and clean "pick-up and deliver" game where you race to be ...

Meeple War is a free-for-all melee on an uncharted battlefield between different tribes of meeples, as the name indicates. Everyone ...

When monopoly was originally released it was created as a critique of capitalism. I don’t know if the creators of ...

At its core Barony is really an abstract strategy game with a medieval theme pasted on. Or rather, I would ...

Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot might have the most descriptive title ever. It tells you exactly what the games is about. First ...

Imhotep is fantastic game with clean easy to teach rules, great components and so many interesting choices to make each turn. And ...

Recently I played a couple of games of The City. It's a small card game for 2-5 players designed by ...

Scoville is a game all about chilli-peppers. Planting them, crossbreeding them, selling them and cooking them into deviously hot dishes ...

Fungi (or Morels as it also know) is a game about collecting delicious mushrooms and eventually cooking them. Of course, ...

I'd like to introduce you to a card game called A Game of Thrones: The Card Game (Second Edition). This ...

Targi is a wonderful two player game about trading among the nomad Tuareg tribes in Sahara. You try to “out ...

Above and Below merges choose your own adventure books with a well designed worker placement game. All wrapped up in ...

In Flip City you are in charge of, well, a city, which you want to develop faster than the other ...

Imperial Settlers has been one of my favorite games for a long time and Imperial Settlers: Atlanteans just makes a ...

Part evolution game, part racing game, part card management and a whole lot of fun, Inhabit the Earth is a ...

Imagine how boring life would be if you had it all, riches, political power and a high social standing. What ...

As a lord of one of the most powerful families in 15th century Italy it's up to you to build ...

Imagine a game of bluffs and mind games but with a physical representation and feel of a 2D fighting game ...

I finally played enough games to legit a proper review of this hidden role game for 4-12 players by Tobey ...

In the post-apocalyptic world of Neuroshima the Moloch have sent a convoy of killer robots to destroy New York. Will they ...

Magnum Sal is a game about mining salt in 1368. No wait, don’t go! I know salt mining might not ...

Super Motherload merges tile-laying and deck-building in a fun thematic package. Based on a computer game with the same name, you ...

RESISTOR_ is a very clever mix of a card, memory game with a bit of deduction thrown in. Like all ...

Today I'd like to introduce you to a small card drafting game called Tides of Time for two players. It's ...

In Through the Ages, you get to be a leader of civilization. It is a long, deep game where every ...

Although Nippon is a heavy euro and perhaps the heaviest we have reviewed on this site, it is a highly ...

Takenoko Chibis adds that one thing that can make a great cute game about a panda even better - More pandas ...

Galaxy Trucker is all about building an awesome spaceship and then boldly go where no one has gone before, to a ...

After briefly trying the game at Essen I bought Dojo Kun immediately at the fair. I met the designer at ...

7 Wonders: Duel is the 2 player game of the popular game 7 Wonders. The original game does have a 2 ...

As the sun orbits around Antarctica your team of scientists and ships struggle to set-up research outpost and other equipment before your ...

You are a band of young soldiers trying to survive World War One. Will you live to see the end ...

Becoming one of the Ultimate Warriorz isn't going to be easy, but it will be a lot of fun. You will ...

A fighting game where you don't fight, a dice game where you don’t roll dice. Kumo Hogasha is an excellent ...

The year is 1901, the city is New York. You start of with only a small property in Lower Manhattan, ...

A perfect game for that 15-minute break, Yardmaster Express does little, but does it very well. What is Yardmaster Express like? ...

It's not easy being a spymaster, but it is a lot of fun. Using one-word hints you must help your team find ...

Come along for game of treachery and opportunism. In Dogs of War you are a Victorian era mercenary captain vying for influence with ...

2014 was a busy year for Bruno Cathala. Next to Five Tribes and Abyss he also designed Madame Ching with ...

Slaying orcs and dragons is hard work for heroes, so like all of us they deserve some vacation time at ...

Dice plays a part in lots of games, but I have yet to try a game where the roll of the ...

Clean, simple and pleasing to look at, that's what sushi is, and that's what Sushi Go! is too. It's easy to ...

Tokaido can be described with one simple word: serenity. This game will help you calm down while enjoying the simple ...

Harbour is another of Scott Almes brilliant small games. It's fun, easy to teach, quick to play and has a ...

Welcome to the Dungeon is a simple easy to learn game, that's both fun and quick to play. It's well ...

Cute is not often a word used to describe board games. But in this case it's the perfect word for ...

Crossing into the Land of 1001 Nights, your caravan arrives at the fabled Sultanate of Naqala. The old sultan just ...