Posts Tagged ‘board game review’

Designer: Antoine Bauza Artist: Dimitri Chappuis, Etienne Hebinger, Cyril Nouvel Publisher: Repos Production (Asmodee North America) Category: Card Drafting Player Count: 3-8 Price: $39.99 MSRP In 2011, the Spiel des Jahres (“Game of the [...]

Designer:Sébastien Pauchon, Ismaël Perrin Artist: Andrew Bosley Publisher: Days of Wonder (Asmodee North America) Category: Worker Placement Player Count: 2-4 Price: $39.99 MSRP Every year, Days of Wonder has some big release that gets the hype train [...]

Designer: Reiner Knizia Artist: Sébastien Caiveau Publisher: Thames and Kosmos Category: Auction / Strategy Game Player Count: 2-4 Price: $14.95 MSRP Like many others, Lost Cities was one of the first modern board and card games that I played. It’s [...]

Designers: Alice Carroll, Cyril Demaegd Artist: Arnaud Demaegd, Legruth, Mahulda Jelly Publisher: Space Cowboys / Asmodee Category: Deduction, Puzzle, Real-Time Price: $14.99 MSRP (each) Not long after Escape Rooms boomed in popularity, board game [...]

Designer: Alan R. Moon Artist: Julien Delval, Cyrille Daujean Publisher: Days of Wonder / Asmodee Category: Family Game Player Count: 2-4 Price: $20.00 MSRP (Target Exclusive) Since Love Letter in 2012, micro-games—board and card games with small [...]

Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Category: Collectible Dice Card Game, Star Wars Player Count: 2 Price: $29.99 for 2-player starter set, $2.99 for booster pack, $14.95 for single player starter set   Star Wars: Destiny is a collectible dice card game [...]

Designer: Adam Wyse Publisher: FoxMind Category: Family Game, Card Game Player Count: 2-5 Price: $19.95 In recent years, FoxMind Games has moved its focus away from educational games towards games focused on gamers and families, but still light and [...]

Designer: Roberto Fraga Artist: Stéphane Escapa Publisher: Blue Orange Games Category: Family Game, Card Game Player Count: 2-4 Price: ~$18 on Amazon In 2015, Blue Orange Games had great success with Dr. Eureka, a speed logic game from mad genius Roberto [...]

Designers: Jerry D’Arcey, Rob Daviau, Justin Jacobson Artist: Chelsea Harper Publisher: Restoration Games Category: Trick-Taking Player Count: 3-4 Price: $19.99 For me, one of the biggest hits of Gen Con 2017 was seeing Restoration Games become a [...]

Designer: J. Alex Kevern Artist: Beth Sobel Publisher: Renegade Game Studios Category: Family Game, Card Game Player Count: 2-4 Price: $20.00 MSRP Renegade Game Studios is a relatively new publisher, but they have come out the gates swinging, with hugely [...]

Designer: Alan R. Moon Artist: Julien Delval Publisher: Days of Wonder / Asmodee Category: Family Game Player Count: 2-5 Price: $49.99 MSRP Since winning the Spiel des Jahres in 2004, Ticket to Ride has had many iterations, and one of the more unique [...]

Designers: Vlaada Chvátil, Scot Eaton Artist: Tomáš Kučerovský Publisher: Czech Games Edition (CGE) Category: Word Game, Two-Player Game Player Count: 2 Price: $19.95 When I first moved back to my hometown county for my current job, I had a brand new [...]

Designers: Devin Low with Jason Brenner, Bubby Johanson, Crystal Lautzenheiser, Nick Leslie, & Mark Shaunessy Publisher: Upper Deck Entertainment Category: Deckbuilding/Strategy Game Player Count: 1-5 BoardGameGeek Rating: 7.6 (13,519 votes) Price: [...]

Designers: Peter Wichmann Publisher: Z-Man Games / Asmodee Category: Tile-Laying, Puzzle Game Player Count: 1-4 Price: $29.99 If you asked me my favorite board game genre a year ago, I would have rambled about my love for engine-building card games with [...]

Designer: Bruno Cathala Artist: Cyril Bouquet Publisher: Blue Orange Category: Family Game, Tile-Laying Game Player Count: 2-4 Price: $29.99 MSRP 2017 has been an incredible year for tile-laying games, a genre I’ve realized I like far more than I [...]