Downforce is a super simple and very fast paced board game that offers traditional racing action alongside a high stakes bidding mechanic to ensure the players remain fully engaged at all times throughout. This essentially splits the game into two phases that include an initial auction phase (where everyone chooses their car or cars) and […]
Whilst our Rage 2 review is late partly because we received a copy just after the game released, the more pressing matter for me has been to explore every inch of Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic world in the hopes that I would find something – anything – that would give me a different narrative slant than you’ll […]
Screaming through the atmosphere on nimble ailerons, the TIE/sk striker is a unique starfighter designed to excel at both air and space assaults. Its atmospheric capabilities give it unique and flexible movement patterns that can surprise even veteran opponents, as its heavy firepower lets it wear down nearly any foe. With the TIE/sk Striker Expansion […]
Corinth is a recently released roll and write game from Days of Wonder. For those who remember it, Corinth is based on Yspahan, an older board game that uses most of the same mechanisms, albeit in the form of a board game rather than a roll and write. If you’ve never heard of the roll and […]
If you’re familiar with the phrase “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy” then you’ll almost certainly have seen the original Star Wars movie, and you’ll likely recognise the words of Alec Guinness’ Obi Wan Kenobi. Indeed, the Mos Eisley Cantina that this phrase refers to has become one of […]
With the current cataclysm that is Brexit, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Europe Divided was a game specifically about the cumbling state of European politics in the present day, and whilst that’s not quite accurate, it’s clearly an inspirational factor for Phalanx Games’ latest wargame. Another obvious inspiration is the GMT Games classic Twilight […]
No-one (and I mean no-one) is as big a fan of the Tropico series as I am. From the delightfully infectious salsa music that perfectly captures both the Latin setting and the mischievously tongue-in-cheek nature of Kalypso’s twenty year old series to the lighthearted gameplay, I love almost everything about it. Despite this lifelong affection […]
In Wendake, players each choose one of the many tribes that made up the Huron Nation and attempt to steer them through seven years of hunting, gathering and ceremony, all the while observing the movements of the recently arrived French and English. In the recent expansion to Wendake, known as New Allies, the latter part […]
The Z-95 Headhunter’s wide production saw it scattered to the far corners of the galaxy. Now, this reliable, easy-to-acquire starfighter is integral to numerous criminal cartel fleets—from large operations like Black Sun to small-time raiders like the Binayre Pirates. Armed with missiles and illicit technologies, a single Z-95-AF4 can be a danger, but a swarm […]
In Ludonaute’s Space Gate Odyssey, each player controls an individual confederation of scientists on humanity’s first interstellar colonisation mission. The players will compete to expand their own personal space stations, each of which will consist of a number of interconnected modules. By managing the flow of specific actions, players will gather settlers and then deploy […]
In Heroes of Land, Air and Sea, one to four players will compete for victory points by mastering the classic 4X’s – Exploring, Expanding, Exploiting and Exterminating. This huge and visually impressive game is the brainchild of Scott Almes and a Gamelyn Games production, making it a very exciting prospect indeed. Let’s dive in to […]
If you’ve been following board games for the past couple of years, you will almost certainly heard of Dinosaur Island, which debuted last year in a blockbusting Kickstarter. Finally, after a few relatively modest print runs, the game is back in print and available to buy, and along with it is a big box expansion […]
It’s hardly rare for a board game to build its theme around the lives of the native people of one region or another, but in most cases, such games tend to marginalise, exploit or otherwise belittle such people. Inuit: The Snow Folk is a very, very different prospect. Designed in collaboration with the Inuk people,Inuit: […]
In Dream Catchers, each player controls a friendly sprite who visits children in the night, chasing away their nightmares and ensuring that they have sweet dreams and a good night’s sleep. Monsters hiding under the bed will threaten to wake the children and gobble them up, and so they must also be chased away. Dream […]
In Istanbul, two to five players each take on the role of a busy merchant hurrying through the bustling streets of the titular city. With a host of assistants trailing behind them, the merchants will collect valuable commodities, earn lira and visit various key locations in order to achieve their ultimate objective of earning enough […]
Based on the hype that appears to surround Hellboy: The Board Game, I’d be surprised if there was anyone left who is interested in the game but hasn’t already purchased it. When games like this come to retail, stripped of their Kickstarter exclusives and multiple expansions, they are sometimes revealed as little more than attractive […]
There are already countless board games that seek to replicate the adventures of Frodo, Aragorn, Gandalf and the rest of the J. R. R. Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Nine, but relatively few expand the narrative outside of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth from […]
For those who have been following our regular coverage of GMT Games products, you may have noticed a theme. GMT produce deeply strategic, often complex but always incredibly powerful simulations that explore real periods of history. In the games that we’ve covered, we’ve already been to Vietnam, Algeria and to the American Revolutionary War, but […]
In Big Book of Madness, the players work cooperatively to defeat various spirits and monsters unleashed from a grimoire that they accidentally opened. Spells will be cast, curses will be broken and ultimately, the players will hope that the grimoire can be sealed before time runs out. Big Book of Madness draws on similar characters and […]
Although it has been a quiet revolution, the “Roll and Write” genre has been carving out a large proportion of the traditional board game market share over the past couple of years. There are now numerous well-loved examples of this style of game, but few have experienced such ferocious popularity as Wolfgang Warsch’s Ganz Schon […]
As the name might suggest, Raccoon Tycoon is a game of pure economics set in a world full of anthropomorphic animals. It’s a game about producing and selling commodities at just the right moment, as well as expanding your town in order to increase production capacity. Raccoon Tycoon looks fairly daunting at first glance, which I […]
Regular readers would be forgiven for experiencing a sense of deja-vu at opening our latest board game review, which, today, is the recently release Stone Age: Anniversary Edition. I say that not simply because Stone Age was first released over ten years ago, but also because we actually reviewed the base game last year, just […]
