Posts Tagged ‘board game review’

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 [...]

Designer: Kasper Lapp Artist: Gyom Publisher: Dude Games Category: Family, Real-Time, Cooperative Player Count: 1-8 Price: $32.99 Every year when the nominees come out for the Spiel des Jahres (Family Game of the Year in Germany), there’s always a [...]

Designer: Michael Rieneck Artist: Franz Vohwinkel Publisher: KOSMOS Category: Card Game, Take That! Player Count: 3-4 Price: $14.95 One of the first hobby board games I ever played after Magic and Catan was a game called Citadels from designer Bruno [...]

Designer: Alex Randolph Publisher: FoxMind Category: Family Game, Bluffing/Deduction Player Count: 2-4 Price: $24.95 Museum Heist is part of FoxMind’s recent move away from educational and abstract games, and more towards family games that can still [...]

Designer: Josh Wood Artist: Josh Wood Publisher: AEG (Alderac Entertainment Group) Category: Family Game, Drafting Game Player Count: 2-4 Price: $24.99 Have you ever been to a store and seen a board game that existed purely for reasons other than [...]