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Fighting games is one of the most interesting video game genres out there. While the core concept is borderline primal, as the end goal of every fighting game is to beat your opponent’s health to zero, it has earned the reputation of being hard as hell. It’s not a surprise,… Read more »

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine, a cooperative trick-taking game that plays over a 50-mission campaign, has been a big part of my gaming life. As a great four-player game, it's been a really nice way to connect with friends who we haven't seen in some time, providing a… Read more »

Fire Tower - Bob Pazehoski, Jr. I had a chance to sit with this strange little entity recently. Players each respond to, defend against, and aggressively wield the everlasting fire that has ignited in the center of the board. The aim? Survive—and burn your opponents’ towers to the ground, relegating… Read more »

Like many successful deckbuilder games, Star Trek Captain's Chair adapts proven game mechanics – in this case, from Imperium's civilization-building system – and reimagines them through a new thematic lens. While Imperium explores broad themes of the rise and fall of empires, Captain's Chair distills the same core systems into… 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 1985 in a magazine (although he’d self-published games before then as well). Over the last 40 years, Knizia has designed and published over 800… Read more »

I have fond memories of the Choose Your Own Adventure series, the youth-skewing books that allow readers to make decisions for the protagonists. Though they were hardly a fixture of my youth, I read a large number of them during a short period of time. I still remember a particular… Read more »

WaldMeister is an abstract game from Gerhards Spiel und Design, the German game designers who made beautiful wooden games. My introduction to Gerhards Spiel was Urbino, a game so simple and sublime that I was immediately willing to try anything the publisher produced. My review copy of Urbino came direct… Read more »

[caption id="attachment_310585" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Festival, the Box[/caption] Festival is a game for 2-4 players where you’re placing firework tiles, each in one of four different colors on your player board, to have them match the patterns shown on objective scoring cards. Have the highest score at the end and you’re… Read more »

I’d like to take a moment to address the uncomfortable prosody of the title. The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game is, at the very least, guilty of dropping a “The,” is it not? There’s something about the way “Trick-Taking Game” is thrown in there, with a lack of propriety… Read more »

Since our very first post, we’ve been laser focused on publishing high-quality board game related content: whether it’s written or video. We craft and discuss, parenthesize, spellcheck, and edit until we’re happy with it. And this year we published 525 pieces; it’s just crazy for an all-volunteer team like ours.… Read more »