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Garden Heist will take over your table with its twist on Hide and Seek
In Garden Heist players race to rack up points by sneaking up the board in a clever twist on hide and seek. While I'm almost 100% certain that somebody has made a wargaming-style game that adapts hide and seek to the table, after all, they…
Pokémon Trading Card Game Build and Battle Sets – A Player’s Perspective
I've played many, many, TCGs in my time. My main card game used to be Cardfight!! Vanguard, run by Bushiroad, before switching over to Magic: The Gathering in 2023. I've also indulged in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Flesh and Blood, Weiss Schwarz, Dragon…
Ethnos 2nd Edition is prettier than the original, but are the improvements only skin deep?
Things move slowly in the world of board games, and the rumour mill is often turning long before anything actually materializes. This is often true when it comes to remaking older games — and in the case of 2017’s Ethnos, there seem to have…
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking – Chapter-based Hobbit
I am going to admit, this is the second Lord of the Rings board game I have played, and I have still not read the books or seen the movie. However, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking Game, is a simple to follow,…
Doomlings Techlings Expansion bolts new mechanics onto your winning strategy
The Doomlings Techlings Expansion adds modifications into the quick-play, set collection game, giving you the chance to refine and tweak your traits in cool new ways. The Techlings Expansions is one of a bundle of 'booster pack' style…
Joyride is an exciting, vibrant take on the racing genre that videogame fans will love
Well, here we are — no new or particularly exciting racing games in the board game world for ages, yet now we have HEAT: Pedal to the Metal, Thunder Road: Vendetta and finally Joyride all landing in rapid succession. For me, HEAT is still…
The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is an epic board game take
Games like The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era don’t come around very often. The size, scope and scale of Chip Theory Games’ latest effort — not to mention the cost of producing it — speaks volumes about the confidence of the…
Doomlings Mythlings Expansion spices up the inter-turn moments
The Doomlings Mythlings Expansion is all about playing out of order and building non-specialised decks. The Mythlings Expansions is one of a bundle of 'booster pack' style expansions available for Doomlings. In this case, it includes 16…
Wandering Galaxy is the next app-driven crossroads game from Plaid Hat Games
It’s been a long time since the first Crossroads game — Dead of Winter — was released. Since then, this choose your own adventure style system has been through a number of iterations, with settings that feature living toys, anamorphic…
Evolution: Another World is fun and pretty, but flirts too closely with extinction
It seems completely natural — excuse the pun — for board games to use natural history as a theme. The slow pace, the thematic concepts and the general appeal of animals and nature just seems to be a great fit for the medium. But what…