All posts by Chris Hecox

Wildlands is an incredible production and has lots of variability to keep things interesting. This continues the stunning catalog of Osprey Games releases.

Designers: Martin Wallace (Brass: Birmingham and Brass: Lancashire) Gavan Brown (Brass Birmingham), Matt Tolman (Brass Birmingham) Artists: Lina Cossette, Damien Mammoliti, Peter Dennis, David Forest, Eckhard Freytag Publisher: Roxley Games Category: [...]

Designers: Hal Duncan, Ruth Veevers Artist: Kwanchai Moriya Publisher: Osprey Games Category: Deduction Players: 3-5 Price: $24.81 Amazon Cryptid is a zoological hunt featuring 3-5 players as cryptozoologists, seeking some sort of mysterious [...]

Designer: Reiner Knizia Artist: Kevin Hong Publisher: Osprey Games Category: Abstract Strategy Players: 2-6 Price: $24.95 Amazon Sakura is one of over 600 board games Reiner Knizia has designed. Knizia has a PhD in mathematics and previously worked in the [...]

Designer: Stefan Feld Artist: Dennis Lohausen Publisher: Tasty Minstrel Games Category: Ancient, Mythology Players: 2-4 Price: $38.82 Amazon Oracle of Delphi is a 2-4 player game published by Tasty Minstrel games and designed by Stefan Feld. Tasty [...]

Designer: Michael Rieneck Artist: Michael Menzel Publisher: KOSMOS Category: Dice, Novel-based, Religious, Renaissance Players: 2-4 Price: $34.50 Amazon A Column of Fire is an adaptation of the third novel in Ken Follett’s “Kingsbridge” [...]

Designers: Stefan Feld, Christoph Toussaint Artists: Julien Delval, Harald Lieske Publisher: Alea Category: City Building, Dice, Economic, Medieval, Territory Building Players: 1-5 Price: $22.79 Amazon The Castles of Burgundy: The Dice Game is the third [...]

Designer: Marc Andre Artist: Anne Heidsieck Publisher: Z-Man Games Category: Card Game, Medieval Players: 2-4 Price: $34.99 Amazon Majesty: For the Realm is a 2-4 player engine-building card game, from designer Marc Andre. Marc is recent designer to the [...]

Designer: Michael Schacht Artists: Atha Kanaani Publisher: Z-Man Games Category: Card Game Players: 3-5 Price: $22.99 Amazon Smile is an odd, 3-5 player card game with risk management from designer Michael Schacht and Z-Man Games. Schacht is a famed [...]

Designer: Jamey Stegmaier Artists: Lina Cossette, David Forest, Gong Studios Publisher: Stonemaier Games Category: City Building, Economic, Medieval Players: 1-6 Price: $43.01 Amazon Charterstone is the long anticipated legacy game from designer Jamey [...]

Designer: Vladimír Suchý Artists: Sören Meding Publisher: Czech Games Edition Category: Space Exploration Players: 2-4 Price: $47.00 Amazon Pulsar 2849 is a space exploration game, thematically illustrated by dice rolling and mitigation. Pulsar is [...]

Designers: Anthony Amato, Jonathan Gilmour, Nicole Kline Artists: Jamie Keddie Publisher: IDW Games Players: 2, 4 Price: $32.79 Amazon Atari’s Centipede is a tabletop version of the classic Atari game: Centipede. Centipede is one of three titles [...]

Designer: Iori Tsukinami Publisher: Tasty Minstrel Games Players: 3-4 Price: $18.57 Amazon Joraku is a 2-4 player trick taking game. Set in feudal Japan, the word Joraku was shouted by Japanese generals as they marched toward Kyoto’s defense, [...]

As we close out tabletop week, our staff spent time reflecting on all the great games and content released in 2017. No brainer, right? Well, we do more than just play and review games. We get together with friends to talk and laugh. We wonder about the [...]

Yeah, we know it’s 2018, but we had to get our favorites out there from 2017. 2017 was a great year for gaming, and I believe I speak for all of us on staff that we feel we barely scratched the surface of all the great titles that released last [...]