Roll Player (with Monsters and Minions + Fiends and Familiars) review — Step forward adventurer
Roll Player focuses purely on creating optimal characters based on a randomly chosen class, alignment and back story.
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Thea 2: The Shattering makes its case on Nintendo Switch
When I first played it on — I think the Xbox One — Thea: The Awakening rapidly became one of my favorite games. I played it so much, for so long, that I think I saw just about everything that it had to offer, and when Thea 2: The Shattering…
Orcs Must Die 3 is Tower Defence Done Right
With an eight year gap since Orcs Must Die 2, fans of the series could have been forgiven for thinking that Orcs Must Die 3 would never come. As it happens, this third iteration will be the first time I’ve dipped my toe in the series — all…
Evolution: Climate warms up on Nintendo Switch
I’ve been a fan of North Star Games’ Evolution games for a few years now, and Evolution: Climate was the first game I played upon introduction to my current, most prolific gaming group. Our reviewer Sara found Evolution to be a success on…
Imperium: Legends tells a thousand years of history in just a few short hours
There’s always a balance to be struck in civilisation building games. Designers, I am sure, must feel a huge pull to try and cram every aspect of ancient life — from technological development and warfare to farming and animal husbandry —…
Everdell expanded review — Sylvanian family now including Pearlbrook, Bellfaire and Spirecrest
Everdell is a game of worker placement, resource collection and tableau building in a woodland realm populated by numerous species of animal, and now featuring up to three expansion sets.
Super Truffle Pigs channels Silk but the reward is less complex, and all the sweeter
While I am always willing to tackle a pre-production board game with an open mind, I will admit to being sceptical when games turn up with little or no fanfare. I don’t know why, but board game news travels fast usually — and with…
Imagine Earth dreams of a better Utopia
For anyone who follows my writing, you would be forgiven for thinking that Imagine Earth should be right up my street. Attractive, clever and rammed with content, this global-scale economic and environmental strategy simulator tasks players…
Vadoran Gardens is a tiny box that reveals an expansive journey
Known for the iteratively popular big box games The City of Kings and The Isle of Cats, designer Frank West and his team at The City of Games decided to try their hand at something a little more portable. Vadoran Gardens comes in perhaps…
Andor: The Family Fantasy Game is a lightweight adventure from a heavyweight duo
If you look at the back catalogue of Inka and Markus Brand, the couple behind games as diverse and award-winning as Rajas of the Ganges, Village and several games in the Exit series, then you’d be forgiven for wondering how on Earth they…