Meeple Mountain News Updates

Trends aren't new to board gaming. Generic fantasy, nature themes, vikings, ninjas, and anthropomorphic animals have littered the landscape for years. Post-apocalyptic racing is one of those popular niches, thanks largely to the enduring influence of Mad Max movies and games like Thunder Road: Vendetta. Joyride: Survival of the Fastest… 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 »

Hit Me, Dealer I’m not saying I’m a degenerate gambler, but when I go to casinos, I need a handler to tell me when to quit. Luckily, I can let loose in the form of push-your-luck board games. Whether it’s Quacks of Quedlinburg, Hot Streak, Ready Set Bet, or Flip… Read more »

Over a decade since its 2012 debut, Cryptozoic Entertainment’s DC Deck-Building Game continues to provide top-notch gameplay experiences for tabletop fans and comics aficionados alike. With dozens of flavorful Crossover packs, cooperative Crisis expansions, and head-to-head Rivals options, the number of characters, continuities, and worlds available to players of this… Read more »

There comes a point in every person’s life when they recognize their calling. And, it is pretty clear that two of our writers, Justin Bell and Andrew Lynch, love spending time in Essen, Germany for the SPIEL Essen tabletop convention each fall. For the first time since COVID, the show… Read more »

Several years ago one of my sons showed me this game called Super Auto Pets. At that time it was a simple browser-based game in which players could acquire adorable pets and send them into combat against each other. Pet fought pet, until only one was left standing. Pets had… Read more »

‘The Queen is under attack. Do you defend her?’   Despite having written stories and played tabletop games all my life, I’d never played a role-playing game (RPG) before For the Queen. The main reason for this is that none of my friends play them. Of course, I could have… Read more »

Clans of Caledonia - Andy Matthews Back in 2017 an indie game was released called Clans of Caledonia, designed by a relatively unknown German designer named Juma Al-JouJou. Who knew that game would go on to become one of the top 100 board games in the world, and inspire loyalty… Read more »

Outside the Artists’ Studio You may not know who painted this famous poster of the French actress Sandra Bernhart, but you probably recognize the artistic style. Art Nouveau, with its flowing lines and ethereal subjects, sought to reunite art with life. In short, it wanted to bring art to the… Read more »

Multiplayer abstract games are notoriously difficult to design. Perfect information competition becomes muddied by the vagaries of turn order, suboptimal player blunders, and just flat out boring decision-making. Waddle is none of those, mainly because it approaches the problems of abstract multiplayer game design head on, especially how it engages… Read more »