22nd Dec2025

‘Bus: Complete Edition’ Board Game Review

by Matthew Smail

Bus: Complete Edition, designed by Jeroen Doumen and Joris Wiersinga and published by Splotter Spellen with a modern reissue from Capstone Games, is one of those rare board games that feels both timeless and singular. First released in 1999, it is often cited as the very first worker placement game, and even now, more than […]

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04th Dec2019

‘Irish Gauge’ Board Game Review

by Matthew Smail

No matter how hard I have tried, I have never been able to get excited about games that centre on trains and stock trading. I’m not sure why, but even when I started out in the hobby, I tended to find that games like Ticket to Ride would bore me long before the game was […]

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