Reviews

There are a lot of board games that have you playing Sherlock Holmes and we have covered a bunch of them over the years. Sherlock Holmes is one of the most well known detectives, and getting to solve mysteries is always fun! In 221b Baker…

Forever Home is a board game all about finding homes for dogs that have come to your shelter, but doing so in a way that scores you the most points possible at the end of the game. It’s a mix of strategy and sort of deciding if the odds…

Banished from their homeland, players must set out to a new, unsettled area and build a new home against the odds.

A nice new addition from the sequel is a casual game mode that is played solely with LB for the bass notes and the A button for the lead notes. This is a great feature for younger players or those who find coordinating lots of button…

Alright, full disclaimer — proud owner of several of Tove Jansson’s beautiful Moomin books, Moomin tattoo. I love these weird little melancholic creatures! Who doesn’t? So I approached Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley with a lot of…

As you might have noticed over the years, we go through a lot of quick board games intended for groups or parties  that would work well on holidays or before a meal. Get Wavey is another card game that fits perfectly in this category. It’s…

Welcome to the 41st Millenium, Trader! Do you like war? No? Well that's too bad because there's a LOT of it. Okay, first things first, I am utterly and unapologetically enthusiastic about the universe of Warhammer 40,000. I think it’s an…

If you’ve played The Room or its ilk, you’ll know what the structure of this game will be. If not, you’ll work your way around a room, finding odd objects that will have hidden switches and compartments that will provide you with items that…

Honestly, I am not sure if sticker books are still a thing. As a child, I had sticker books that were themed, tons of them, with my own collection of stickers. My children do not collect stickers, however, and instead use them in crafting.…

"That's not how bullets work" is probably the last thing, beside the bullet, passing through the head of most of the enemies in Children of the Sun, a game where you can redirect your single bullet after it tastes destruction. Children of…

Long before the Far Cry series started messing around with RPG systems, Boiling Point was an open-world, first-person shooter that played with RPG and faction-based gameplay. It's back now, with a new lease of life from Ziggurat…

Dwarves in gyrocopters. There’s just something about it, right? I don’t know how many games that can offer you both of these, but what I can tell you is that Bore Blasters has lots of them. Up until recently, I had no idea that I wanted a…

Who doesn’t like a big plate of nachos? Nacho Stack is a game that happens in two parts; the first part is creating the nacho stack and the second part is about 'eating' the nachos themselves. The entire game is made up of triangle chips,…

Bugs, Guns and Ore - If you like one of those things, you're gonna have a good time with Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. Get busy mining, or get busy dying! Dig deeper, shoot faster. If I had to describe Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor in one…

The gun-blazing action in Gunhead is exciting, but is it as gripping as we'd hoped?