Meeple Mountain News Updates

“And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about sunlight. It’s about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do.… Read more »

With Incredible Dreams Studio’s release of A Gentle Rain: The Bloom Edition, some of us at Meeple Mountain decided to combine our thoughts to let you know why this is a game we love. K. David Ladage This was a game I discovered via Meeple Mountain. Tom Franklin’s excellent review… Read more »

A Nice Cuppa - Andrew Lynch I love the theme of A Nice Cuppa. Manage your to-do list, your fears, and your anxieties while attempting to sit down and relax with a nice cuppa. Your goal is to get the steps of the process—get a kettle, turn on the stove,… Read more »

Confession time: I don’t really like co-op games. It’s not that I don’t “work well with others” but there’s something about collaborating as a team, assigning specific tasks to each person towards accomplishing a shared goal that just feels like, well, a job. And that’s not the reason I play… Read more »

Spy vs. Spy I’ll admit I hadn’t heard much about this game — I didn’t even know it existed. When Final Titan from Nerdlab Games showed up at my door, it came with a small box game featuring two cunning anthropomorphic animals on the cover. I glanced at it, gave… Read more »

Bee Excellent To Each Other Here at Beeple Mountain—I mean Meeple—we strive to cover the full hive of board gaming, from the hot s%#@ to the crustiest Dusty Euros. That includes spotlighting games still in the larval stage—early prototypes with big potential. Beetown Beatdown is one such game, currently looking… Read more »

I’m addicted to connections—board game design and criticism give me that special hit because games are dialectical. Their form relies on stringing together familiar operations, abstractions, metaphors. It’s why every time you see a game where people are moving little soldiers around a map you assume that some kind of… Read more »

My cousins were the biggest influence on my entrance into many aspects of the Geek-o-sphere, from Warhammer to board games. Ransacking their closet of games was one of my first activities when I visited, and one game that we'd often play was Stratego. I was terrible at it, but the… Read more »

The guys in my Wednesday gaming group started a push to play more of the old, dust-covered games at the bottom and backs of our respective game closet shelves. The premise was simple: let’s try to remember why we keep all these old games when all we ever play now… Read more »

A bit of a masterstroke, Ascending Empires. Conceptually bulletproof. The sort of idea that dares you not to play. “It’s a 4x game, but you flick your ships.” One of the most beautiful sentences I’ve ever heard, right up there with, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne… Read more »