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Burning Banners: Rage of the Witch Queen is a beefy box. It would have to be. There are dozens of scenarios and hundreds of tokens, as well as four different full-sized boards. There are two manuals and six player boards. Burning Banners is a production. It feels a bit like… Read more »

Do you like sci-fi themes in your tabletop experiences? If so, I think 2024 has been an exceptional year. Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon might end the year as the best Euro-style strategy game I got to the table. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence was great as well,… Read more »

I have the great fortune of serving as a member of the tabletop media. As a result, about 95% of the games I cover are review copies forwarded by publishers. That helps keep personal spend at a minimum, which is vital for a person who reviews about 125 games a… Read more »

Brotherwise Games provided a review copy of their new Super Mario Kart-style racing game, Dungeon Kart, so I was fired up to get this to the table. That’s because my eight-year-old son is a Super Mario Kart video game junkie. Dungeon Kart, set in the Boss Monster world of quick-playing… Read more »

“Daddy? Is this a math game?” My son recently helped me rip open a box of new games from our partners at Blue Orange, including the new game Scatter Brain. The package was interesting—a pink snow globe-style head on a small tin can that looked like it held a small… Read more »

If you’re a eurogame designer, odds are, somewhere in your game there are going to be contracts of some kind. It’s the Mount Rushmore of resource management mechanisms. You gotta have something to do with all those bits and bobs you’re collecting. The exemplars: there are games with bespoke contracts… Read more »

The last few years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of board games. Tens of millions of people all over the world are spending time playing board games with their friends, families, and even perfect strangers; all for the love of the game. And now you’re here, looking for… Read more »

“So…what did you think?” Along with three members of my review crew, we had just wrapped up our first four-player game of Asian Tigers: A Story of Prosperity (2024, published by PYTHAGORAS and distributed in the US by Mayfair Games). There was a very long pause before anyone answered my… Read more »

Here’s the great thing about games from Keymaster, the publisher who has given us the PARKS games, Caper: Europe, and the upcoming trick-taking game Fuego: you always know a Keymaster game is going to be an exceptional production. The most recent example of this is their new worker placement game… Read more »

The fine people at Blue Orange Games have done the Bell family well. Kingdomino Origins? Check. The Next Station games? Check (London), then check-check (Paris). Paco’s Party might be the best game I’ve played from Blue Orange, and it’s a game that my now-10-year-old child still likes to revisit from… Read more »