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[caption id="attachment_311102" align="aligncenter" width="600"] TOKAN: The Box[/caption] TOKAN is a two-player game of capture. Each player has 15 tiles that are divided into three different types, each having a variation on a shared ability. It’s easy to teach, quick to play, and is intriguing enough to warrant multiple plays each… Read more »

Modern Euro-style strategy game design is in full swing. I know that some of our peers in the media and content creation space have bailed on the concept of medium-weight Euros. These types of strategy games are sometimes getting too complex without matching the elegance that similar games possessed even… Read more »

How about that theme, huh? Bomb Busters is a cooperative deduction game in which you work as a bomb squad, sweatily cutting wires until the bomb is defused. Cooperative games have been around for quite some time now. How has this not happened before? Has it happened before? I don’t… Read more »

I love Flamme Rouge. I’m not sure if the Finnish-born cycling simulator is my favorite racing game, but there’s a non-zero chance it is. The rules are straightforward, you are often presented with difficult choices, and you have to make educated guesses about what everyone else is going to do.… Read more »

[caption id="attachment_310923" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Volterra: The (Small) Box[/caption] Volterra is an abstract from Steffen Spiel, one of my favorite small box game publishers. In keeping with their other games, this box contains polished wood pieces that form a game with simple rules and an interesting twist. Let’s get it to… Read more »

Another year in the books! Our writing team recently shared an article with our single-favorite games of 2024. However, I played a lot of other games last year…more than 240 different games, in fact! In the spirit of my roundup of the highs and lows from the games I played… Read more »

Given the mind-boggling number of games designed by Dr. Reiner Knizia (sitting at 765 on BGG, as of this writing) it’s no wonder so many consider the German mathematician to be the Board Game GOAT. For the past 40+ years, he’s been creating innovative and accessible games, but what’s always… Read more »

Magic in a Box PAX Unplugged was a great time this year as I got to play many upcoming games and chat with plenty of developers. But there was one game I couldn’t get off my mind. One game that I kept looking at photos of. One game that drove… Read more »

I previously reviewed Ancient Knowledge, a solid tableau building card game designed by Rémi Mathieu and published by IELLO, back in 2023. My review group enjoyed the game, although not exactly as written—the base game badly overstayed its welcome, so we found more magic in a house rule that shortened… Read more »

Concordia- Tom Franklin After hearing about Concordia for years, I finally bought a copy…and then let it sit on my Shelf o’ Shame for way too long. This is such a great game! You’re seeking to move around an ancient map, by sail or by foot, building houses in cities… Read more »