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Everdell Farshore is the cleaner, tidier sequel to our 2018 Game of the Year
Time flies, doesn’t it? I still sometimes think of Everdell as a brand new entry into board gaming, but it’s been over five years since we rated Everdell as our favourite game of the year 2018. Five years is definitely long enough to learn…
Agemonia – big, bold and brilliant
I have memories from when I was about seven or eight years old of using my dad's graph paper to plot maps for a game that I was never able to fully realise. It was some kind of adventure through forests and mountains, and in my mind it was…
Tawantinsuyu: The Inca Empire – Gain fame and influence!
Ascend to the golden temple in this multi tiered worker placement puzzle for the gods. Don’t you want your potato?
REM Racers – Race your way to victory
Strap in and get behind the wheel for a frantic race to the finish line set in Corvus Belli’s infinity universe. There are no banana skins in sight or Koopa shells to swerve in this high tech raucous racer. Plasma canons at the ready and…
Distilled is a thematic drafting and set collection game that will leave you tipsy!
There’s no doubt that we live in a Golden Age for thematic board games. Long gone are the days of pasted-on themes about trading in outer space or Ancient Greece, and instead we have games like Distilled, which take the specific passions of…
Watchmen of Destiny challenges you to recruit a band of heroes at all cost
Form a squad of adorable animals through bidding and clever item usage, all in efforts to win the title of the Watchmen of Destiny. Watchmen of Destiny is a set-collecting tabletop game that's all about finding the right heroes, with the…
Ransom Notes – Fridge Magnet Fun
Ransom Notes is an adult party game where players are tasked with grabbing random fridge magnets and creating sentences that may or may not make sense. This is the type of party game that works well with groups of people that have the same…
Happy Salmon is an incredibly fast-paced matching game
Matching cards gets up and out of its seat with Happy Salmon, a game all about clearing your hand by performing the actions on the cards when you pair up with others. Happy Salmon is probably one of the simplest games that I've reviewed…
Team GB: Ready Set Win – Planning Teams for the Future
Team GB: Ready Set Win challenges players to create teams that are battling it out against each other in the Olympics. You will spend your turn trading in specific points for members of your team, who will then be needed when their activity…
Cards vs Gravity is a card-stacking game of careful balance
Stacking games, as well as other physical games, have intrinsic ties to both the toys that we played with as a child and also with idle-hands activities like cairn-stacking and the assembly of house of cards. Cards vs Gravity takes this and…