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I picked up the new Mighty Boards game Red North at SPIEL Essen 2025, a title serving as the remake of Sӕr, a bluffing area control game for 2-4 players. Designed by James Dickinson, Red North positions players as the leaders of raiding parties battling for control of various outposts—one… Read more »

Let’s just get right into it. Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game (2025, Plaid Hat) is a disappointment. It’s a minor disappointment, but still, it’s a disappointment. The latest in the line of games in Plaid Hat’s Crossroads series, Wandering Galaxy comes on the heels of Forgotten Waters, Freelancers, and Dead… Read more »

Nowadays, the production standards for board games are so high that you can’t swing a dead cat token without hitting a gorgeous box. Even in that crowded field, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, Reiner Knizia’s latest roll-and-write, stands out. Artist Lorenzo Colangeli does some best-in-class work here, on page… Read more »

Umami - Justin Bell I keep trying HeidelBÄR games released by Czech Games Edition, and I keep coming up short. Umami, the latest in a line of family-friendly, light “take that” card games featuring cute art, is designed by a person of relative weight in the tabletop space: Don Eskridge,… Read more »

Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan was one of my top 10 games of 2024 and a package that I think has the best dice combat engine in the action RPG business. The app-driven scenario format means you can drop in for a couple of scenarios here and there to navigate the… Read more »

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The year 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of Dr Reiner Knizia’s career as a board game designer – his first published game, Complica, was released in a magazine in 1985 (although he’d self-published games before then as well). Since then, Knizia has designed and published over 800 games and expansions,… Read more »

Philly Gaming Marathon PAX Unplugged is the end cap to the year of gaming conventions, the last big hurrah before everyone slips into holiday travel mode and winter hibernation. This year carried a bit of uncertainty, landing both the weekend before Thanksgiving and right on top of the Philadelphia Marathon.… Read more »

The top of the SPIEL Essen 2025 Hotness list on Board Game Geek for about two weeks was the new exploration Eurogame Recall. One reason the game was so hot: the same people who designed Recall previously gave us Revive, a top-100 title on BGG and one of the best… Read more »

Whenever a bright and shiny new abstract game is released, people immediately begin comparing it to the 2017 juggernauts: Azul and Sagrada. It's difficult to peddle abstract games, because their themes are generally plastered over the top of the mechanics, so publishers and designers have to get creative by upping… Read more »