One of many Friedemann Friese games to begin with the letter “F” is 2020’s lesser-known Faiyum – a game that centres on the titular region of Faiyum. This region lies adjacent to the Bahr Yussef channel and according to Faiyum was an uninhabited swampland 4,000 years ago. Over several decades and under the instruction of […]
There is no doubt that board games – like all games – are based on iterative cycles of innovation and improvement. Almost every game made today is based, somehow, on a mechanism or idea that has been used elsewhere. After all, as the saying goes, “there is nothing new under the Sun.” The relevance of […]
For those who haven’t heard of it, Power Grid is a classic game about economic strategy, route planning and efficiency. The players compete to build power plants, purchase the raw resources required to power them and ultimately, to power the most cities on an ever tightening board. In the minds of most board gamers, Power Grid […]
