Meeple Mountain News Updates

As a part of our continuing efforts to cover every game in the BoardGameGeek’s list of the top 500, I raised my hand to check out The Vale of Eternity (2023, Renegade Game Studios). The game has a lot of very attractive news and notes on the box: 45-minute play… Read more »

At last year’s Festival International des Jeux in Cannes, France, I had the chance to meet the designer of Colt Express, Christophe Raimbault. Not only was it a lovely conversation, but it was a lovely conversation in English, one of the very few conversations in my native language I had… Read more »

Hello and welcome to ‘Focused on Feld’. In this series of reviews, I am working my way through Stefan Feld’s entire catalogue. Over the years, I have hunted down and collected every title he has ever put out. Needless to say, I’m a fan of his work. I’m such a… Read more »

Glass Garden - Andrew Lynch In Glass Garden, you cultivate a garden of succulents while contending with a pesky interloper, one variety of pest or another. Whether a snail, an ant, a worm, or a fly, they all try to get in your way. None of the included pests is… Read more »

I lost my first 15 games of Aeon’s End, the revered 2016 cooperative deck-builder from design team Kevin Riley, Nick Little, and Jenny Iglesias. I am not proud of that, but I think it’s important for you to know because it immediately tells you two things: Aeon’s End is hard,… Read more »

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, many of… Read more »

Inconsequential confession: the tie-breaker is rarely a part of the teach at my table. Oh sure, it comes up at some point during a first play, usually as an anecdote of sorts, especially if the gameplay seems tight. Most often it’s a throw-away line near the end because the scoring… Read more »

Adventuring in Arzium For those who aren’t already familiar with Red Raven Games and Ryan Laukat, it’s a great time to jump in. The ever-expanding catalog of “cozy” games set in the fantastical world of Arzium draws in players of all types. In Arzium, fantastical creatures, dreamy landscapes, and quiet… Read more »

From 2003 to 2006, I invested so much time in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance that I am tempted to open this review with a bias disclaimer. I haven’t played video games regularly since 2014, and rarely feel any desire to do so, but show me a game with the Final… Read more »

Not every gaming convention is a vendor hall bo(h)nanza with massive queues and backpacks clogging up the aisles amid sensory overload. Some conventions focus on just one thing: playing board games. It sounds like a no-brainer, but actual gameplay can get lost when events, shows, merch, contests, and other distractions… Read more »