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Doomlings brings lots of fight to evolution
Doomlings is a simple to understand but challenging to win card-based game where you and your friends are all looking to evolve to their best form before the world ends. Using cards in your hands, you need to select and play traits, so that…
Tyrants of the Underdark — underground, no one can hear you scream
Because board games are usually printed in limited numbers of perhaps up to a few thousand (for a standard retail release) there can be a big difference between versions when a reprint comes several years later. In the case of Tyrants of…
The Resistance — figure out the spys
The Resistance is a short, deception based game that makes for a good ice breaker and is fun in groups, especially those that are well established and where everyone knows each other! Who doesn’t want to try and defeat a traitor? In The…
King of Tokyo Monster Box brings a ton of fun to your tabletop
At over eleven years old, King of Tokyo has stood the test of time, bridging the gap between earlier examples of what we now call “modern board games” and the current Kickstarter generation, which sees bigger and flashier boxes released…
Kingdom Hearts Perilous Pursuit saves worlds from the heartless
Kingdom Hearts Perilous Pursuit is a dice rolling game where you have to work together as a team to save worlds from the heartless, co-operating with careful dice-allocation and dice-sharing to overcome the darkness corrupting each world.…
Glass Road shows off the lighter side of Uwe Rosenberg’s repertoire
Most board game fans have heard of the legendary Uwe Rosenberg, however he is mostly famous for games like A Feast For Odin, Agricola and Patchwork, rather than some of his less well known titles — which happens to include Glass Road. As…
The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 has you working together, with someone who’s sus
I am going to start off this review by stating that I have never seen The Thing. I do not know anything about it, however, Dann really loves the movie and was super excited to play it. The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 is a strategy based,…
Obsession maintains a stiff upper lip, but does it capture the Downton Abbey spirit?
When a game receives the sort of hype that Obsession has, you have to approach it with caution. At best, there’s a chance that you’ll end up being underwhelmed by a game that is actually decent but still can’t live up to expectations,…
The Batman Who Laughs pits players against the ultimate DC Villain
The Batman Who Laughs is the second game we've played in the Rising system, after we played SpongeBob Squarepants: Plankton Rising previously. This system seems to have been based around having a large villain statue, which is used in…
Cuphead: Fast Rolling Dice Game impressed!
Cuphead is known as a very challenging, face past, almost Disney-looking video game that will make you rage quit. Or, well, it does make me rage quit. So, as a result, I was pretty curious on how the intense, face-paced, always going to…