Yesterday I received a new Kickstarter – Arborea from Alley Cat Games (received ahead of schedule!). I opened it excitedly and tried it out solo last night. This will be a very quick overview compared to my usual posts. Arborea is a game that when it was first coming to Kickstarter was compared to Bitoku. …
Great Western Trail is one of my top 5 games, after Scythe and Terraforming Mars, before Powergrid and Arkham Horror the Card Game. I can’t really put my finger on why I love it so much except that it’s the perfect combination of simple mechanisms stuck together to provide a suitably crunchy game. Aside from …
First things first, this was not my idea, and I first heard about the concept from Paul Grogan of Gaming Rules! However, that being said, I wanted to write about this fantastic idea and the fun we had with it. This is something I would highly recommend – although probably only if you are really …
I first played Dune Imperium a couple of years ago in a 3 player game. I loved it. I have always loved Dune as a franchise (my dad read all the books, but I never got far in as I hated Paul Atreides in Dune Messiah). I would have bought the game following that play …
Atiwa is one of the newest Uwe Rosenberg games and definitely the newest in my collection. I picked a copy up at the bring and buy at UK Games Expo, having previously watched a play through and deciding it was a must have for my collection. My version of the game is in German, but …
I’ve owned Agricola for a long while, but got the Farmers of the Moor expansion relatively recently. However, as the expansion was for the revised version of the game but I had the original I never properly played it. I recently bought the revised edition of Agricola as I found it available dirt cheap. And …
Gutenberg is a medium weight euro game where you compete to be the best printers. You gain points by having high levels of certain skills, by completing orders, and by impressing your patrons. The person with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. The game plays over 6 rounds; each …