War Room is an epic war game, simulating World War II. You can play this game in multiple modes – smaller games concentrating on specific countries/areas of the world – or as we played, the full world war. You can play it with a smaller a number of people playing multiple countries, or one country …
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 …
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 won Nimalia in a raffle at UK Games Expo and when I picked it up I can’t say I was enthused by it. However, when I got home I watched a few reviews and read the rules and I decided it looked pretty good. It’s a card drafting and laying game where each card …
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 …
A crunchy Euro which is more mechanical than theme, takes up the whole table, but looks very pretty.
My Father’s Work is an app-based, story-driven, worker placement game. It takes place over three generations of a family of scientists in a Victorian, gothic Eastern Europe setting heavily influenced by Frankenstein and steampunk. For each generation you basically start the game again, but with a few things handed down from your parent. The quality …