I have always been a bit of a sucker for a thematic game that links mechanical gameplay with the storyline of each turn as it unfolds. In Black Rose Wars, each of up to four players acts as a mages seeking the favour of the titular black rose – an artifact of tremendous power. As […]
Master of the Galaxy is a brand new 4x (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate) game that claims to be playable in under an hour, without compromising the deep, strategic gameplay that this genre has become known for. As you can imagine from the name and the images, Master of the Galaxy takes place at an abstracted, […]
Hidden movement (or hide and seek, if you prefer) games have been around for a while, yet there are still relatively few of them to choose from. Letters from Whitechapel and Fury of Dracula are perhaps the two that most people will have heard of, but last year, Italian publisher Ares Games saw fit to […]
Italian board game publisher Ares Games – whose game Divinity Derby we recently reviewed – have announced they are set to publish and distribute, worldwide, a starship combat miniature game based on the Battlestar Galactica TV series – including both the classic series, created by Glen A. Larson in the late ‘70s, and the re-imagined […]
In Divinity Derby, up to six rival Gods amuse themselves by betting on the outcome of three consecutive races that take place between mythical creatures who race around an abstract, circular track. With beasts like a gryphon, a phoenix and a lamissu in play and the players representing Gods from numerous mythologies, Divinity Derby is a […]
