Board Game Reviews

It's like a license to print money...

350 Foot Tall Monsters in Halloween Costumes? Are you kidding me? This is where I draw the line...oh, wait, nope. It's still silly, random fun.

Middara is a lot to unpack.

Stumbling though life's awkward situations one party at a time.

It's a nice box featuring, for some reason, the lady from Concordia repurposed as some kind of wizard. Inside more pleasant surprises await. A lidded carousel to hold five kinds of wooden token that looks nice, works well and is useful during play all at once. Card compartments that fit sleeved cards should this prove one of the one per cent of games I bother sleeving.

Sekigahara may seem like a souped up Stratego but instead presents a fascinating look of the orginizational level of the titular campaign.

Meteo: from meteorological: to do with weather. And it's Italian? For the love of... If I would have known there would be so much foreign language in board games, I would have paid more attention in class.

Shogun started off as my favorite game of all time, now it doesn’t crack my top 30.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes and story telling games.

Geeks love stats and lists. It's always fun to see who rates what well. But it's often more interesting to look not at scores, but at outliers, at games that divide opinion. There are lots of reasons why certain titles prove controversial, but none of them applies to 2018's Wildlands. I gave five stars to this tactical Skirmish game from Martin Wallace, and it was one of my top three titles that year. And I expected everyone else to love it too. But it has not proved so. In fact, it's proved a real Marmite game: many loved it...