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At Essen 2025, I picked up a review copy of Kingdom Legacy, the latest release from Swedish design Jonathan Fryxelius and publisher FryxGames. I hadn’t heard anything about it prior to the convention—nothing drives home the vastness of our ecosystem like counting the games at Spiel that you’ve never heard… Read more »

Even though I’ve been heavily into board gaming for over a decade, and I’m a big fan of Reiner Knizia, I’d never heard of Botswana (or any of its previous incarnations: Quandary, Loco, or Irish Wolf). So with great delight I opened the slim box, gorgeously illustrated by Weberson Santiago.… Read more »

I Walked With a Zombie I walked with a zombie I walked with a zombie Last night --Roky Erikson & The 13th Floor Elevators Return of the Living Dead: Zombie Punk Panic (known simply as Zombie Punk Panic for this review) is a dice-rolling stroll through hordes of zombies, all… Read more »

It’s The Best Time of the Year Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose. And Christmas marketing nipping at your wallet. It’s that time of year when the holiday spirit (and, let’s be honest, the holiday commercialization) spreads across every surface like spilled eggnog. Personally,… 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 »

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 »

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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