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Hero’s Crossing — selling to heroes before someone else does!
Hero’s Crossing is a two to four player, town-building management game where your dice are a valued resource and trying to sell items to heroes is your plan, all before your competitors are able to claim these heroes for themselves. The…
Oriflamme is a deadly card game that will spoil your party
I don’t often play what I would consider to be party games, and as a rule, I discount them on the basis that they lack the decisions and depth that I seek. Oriflamme rewrites the rulebook thanks to its exciting, often outright mean…
Break the monotony of lockdown with Imhotep: The Duel
Last year, I was lucky enough to grab a copy of Phil Walker-Hardings' Imhotep, a two to four-player game in which the players compete to build pyramids, obelisks and tombs in honour of the Pharaoh. In Imhotep: The Duel, the gameplay is…
Airship City — Unique movement mechanics are not enough to propel this game to greatness
Airship City sees up to four players competing to provide the most for the betterment of a great metropolis in the sky. Harvest resources, contribute towards communal social projects and fulfil supply requests but plan carefully because, in…
Playing solo game The Ratcatcher is a great way to pass time during lockdown
Although we haven’t covered many solo board games here at B3, when we have come across them we’ve enjoyed them. Nemo’s War, Cities: Skylines and The Rise and Fall of Anvalor all managed to put a smile on my face, but The Ratcatcher, which…
Roam continues the walkabout theme of Near and Far, but leaves a smaller footprint
Whilst the box is much smaller and the gameplay a little lighter, Roam continues to expand Ryan Laukat’s existing universe both visually and thematically, with characters that are similar to both Above and Below and Near and Far and a…
Sami Laakso’s Dale of Merchants 3 Kickstarter is imminent!
If you’re a regular reader of B3’s tabletop section, you’ll know that we’re huge fans of the Dale of Merchants series of games, thanks to our coverage of Dale of Merchants 1 and 2 and Dale of Merchants Collection. This May, Snowdale Design…
The Champion of the Wild asks all the right questions
Now don’t be shy, you can’t tell me that you’ve never wondered who would win in a fight between a tiger and a polar bear, or whether an elephant is a better endurance swimmer than a leopard. It’s OK, we’ve all asked those questions at some…
Barenpark is cheap, simple and one of the best tile placement games money can buy
OK, I admit it; when I came into the process of reviewing Barenpark, I’d never played it before. With a game like this comes baggage — the weight of expectation. Everyone has an opinion on it, whether that be because they think it’s too…
Creator Interview — Dávid Turczi — Excavation Earth
Dig deep with an interview with Dávid Turczi, a prominent solo game designer — on his methods and his upcoming Kickstarter Game, Excavation Earth!