Tag: Deckbuilders
Posted on June 22, 2026
by whovian223
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Back in the early 2020s, Dire Wolf Digital had a huge hit with Paul Dennen’s Dune Imperium, a classic blending of deckbuilding mechanics and worker placement that quickly rose into the Boardgame Geek Top 100 and currently sits in the Top 10. They came… Continue Reading “The Uprising Will Be Televised – App Expansion Review – Dune Imperium: Uprising”
Posted on June 19, 2026
by whovian223
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One of these days, I’m going to learn that doing these Boardgame Geek century posts too early is possibly going to cause a rip in the space-time continuum, like what’s happening right about now. What, you didn’t feel that? We’ve all traded places with… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3301 – 3400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Bitewing Games, Block Wargames, Card Games, Columbia Games, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, EastFront: The War in Russia, ForGames, GMT Games, Harvest, Hidden Roles, Ivanhoe, Lunch Time Games, Orbit, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Renegade Games Studios, Repos Games, Resafa, Restoration Games, Secrets, Stalingrad '42, Terror Below, Tile-Laying Games, Unmatched: Battle of Legends Volume 3, Valley of the Kings: Last Rites, Wargames
Posted on May 5, 2026
by whovian223
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This post took me a lot less time than last month’s did. That’s because there were no conventions in April! Instead of 10+ new to me games, there are only four in this month’s post, but they are all pretty good! The Cult of… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, AllPlay, Anna Wermlund, Auction Games, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, Eternal Decks, Frostbite Games, Garphill Games, Helge Meissner, Kjetil Svendsen, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lunch Time Games, Money!, Recall, Reiner Knizia, Secret Societies, Set Collection Games, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Tricktakers Games
Posted on May 1, 2026
by whovian223
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I knew this month would not be as good as last month. No conventions! But I was still able to get some solid gaming in, though maybe not as much as usual. One Sunday I wasn’t able to make it and the lunchtime games… Continue Reading “April 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Area Control, Auction Games, BG Stats, Card Drafting, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Dune Imperium - Rise of Ix, Faraway, Faraway: Under Starry Skies, Pegasus Spiele, Schmidt Spiele, Strasbourg, Tableau-building, The Taverns of Tiefenthal
Posted on April 30, 2026
by whovian223
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I know I have said this before, but looking at the next couple of centuries in the Boardgame Geek top games rankings, at least the next couple of weeks are going to be very bare bones. I haven’t played a lot of them and… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2701 – 2800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Age of Comics: The Golden Years, Block Wargames, Card-Driven Game, Columbia Games, Cooperative Games, Cranio Creations, Crusader Rex, Dale of Merchants 3, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Game Salute, Iron Curtain, Jolly Roger Games, Legendary Encounters: The X-Files, Lirius Games, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, My Shelfie, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Shadowrift 2nd Edition, Snowdale Design, Steve Jackson Games, Ultra Pro, Upper Deck, Wargames, We the People, Worker Placement Games, Zombie Dice
Posted on April 16, 2026
by whovian223
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This is very late, and I am very sorry. Usually I have written my “New to Me Games” post by the end of the first week of the month. But March was such a cornucopia of new games that I just couldn’t do it!… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Anthony Giovannetti, Bruce Glassco, Card Games, Casey Yano, Contention Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Cover Your Cookies, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Emanuele Santellani, Expeditions, Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends, Gary Dworetsky, Grandpa Beck's, James Ernest, Jamey Stegmaier, Jeffrey Beck, Leonardo Alese, Light Speed: Arena, Lunch Time Games, Real-Time Games, Rogue-like, Set Collection Games, Slay the Spire: The Board Game, Speakeasy, Stonemaier Games, Tablescope, Tom Jolly, Vital Lacerda, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 23, 2026
by whovian223
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One of the best things a game expansion can do is to add some cool new stuff to the game, maybe something different but still fun to explore, and then get out of the way. Don’t change the mechanics greatly. Maybe the stuff you… Continue Reading “Noisy Mummies – Clank: The Mummy’s Curse App Expansion Review”
Posted on March 21, 2026
by whovian223
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As we get further and further down the BGG rankings, the pickings are becoming increasingly slim. But it’s also made me think a little bit, considering some of the games that show up in each century. I know, thinking is dangerous, especially for me.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2201 – 2300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 5 Minute Marvel, Alderac, Area Control, Area Majority, Ascension, Ascension: Rise of Vigil, Avalon Hill, B-17: Queen of the Skies, Caesar's Empire, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cease and Desist, Citrus, City of Iron, Civilization Building, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, DLP Games, Dragonfire, GMT Games, Hearts, Holy Grail Games, Levy & Campaign Series, Nevsky, Real-Time Games, Red Raven Games, Route-building, Smash Up, Solo Games, Spades, Spielworxx, Spin Master Games, Stoneblade, Unconditional Surrender, Wargames, Weimar, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on March 3, 2026
by whovian223
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(Edit 3/18/26: It’s live!!!!! Go get it now on Steam, iOS, or Android) Two posts in one day, but I just saw this amazing news and had to pass it along (so this will be short). The wonderful Clank! app published by Dire Wolf… Continue Reading “Clank! The Mummy’s Curse Coming Soon to Digital”
Posted on March 3, 2026
by whovian223
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I thought February was going to be a big month for games, with two days of a convention at the end of the month of on top of our normal gaming. Sadly, me getting sick for over a week eliminated one Sunday along with… Continue Reading “February 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, BG Stats, Cape May, Card Games, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Earth, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Fort, GMT Games, Inside Up Games, Leder Games, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, SETI, SETI: Space Agencies, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Thunderworks Games, Tokaido