Posted on May 28, 2025
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I keep saying this, but Dire Wolf Digital is putting out some amazing boardgame apps, even though sometimes a new app has a couple of faults that were present (and fixed) in previous apps, so I’m not sure what’s going on there. They do… Continue Reading “Clank Under the Sea – Clank: Sunken Treasures app expansion review”
Posted on May 26, 2025
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(Edit 6/4/25): Wow, that was quick. They’ve now announced it will be available on all platforms on June 10! Two posts in a day, but this one excites me and I’ve just had time to actually write it up after a few days. Hence… Continue Reading “Dune Imperium – Immortality Digital Expansion Coming Soon”
Posted on May 2, 2025
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While April wasn’t a really full month of games, it was surprisingly full of new to me games! Six new to me games out of the fourteen I played is actually a really good ratio. I love it when months come together like that.… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, AllPlay, amuele Tabellini Ferrari, Botanicus, Bus, Corné van Moorsel, Cwali, Daniel Bullock, David Spalinski, Deckbuilders, Donald X. Vaccarino, GMT Games, Habitats, Hans im Gluck, In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943-44, Jeroen Doumen, Joe Schmidt, Joris Wiersinga, Little Dog Games, Lunch Time Games, Moon Colony Bloodbath, Rio Grande Games, Route-building, Splotter Spellen, Tile-Laying Games, Torchlit, Trick-taking games, Vieri Masseini
Posted on April 8, 2025
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(Edit 5/15/25): The release date (on Steam at least) has been announced as May 21! I’ve asked whether that includes iOS and Android but haven’t heard back Or at least that’s what “Quarter 2 2025” means to me! Don’t quote me on the exact… Continue Reading “Clank! – Sunken Treasures Coming to Digital This Summer”
Posted on March 6, 2025
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Welcome to another in the continuing series (8 years and running!) of “new to me” boardgames posts. In a few days, I’ll be celebrating 8 years of blogging, and one of the things I am proud of is that I have never missed a… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Points, Action Selection, Antoine Bauza, Antonio Zax, Bruno Cathala, Burnt Island Games, Caleb Grace, Card Drafting, Carl de Visser, Connections, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Endeavor: Deep Sea, Fantasia Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Havalandi, Jarratt Gray, Jonny Pac Cantin, Laskas, Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth, Lunch Time Games, MLEM Space Agency, Pegasus Spiele, Push Your Luck Games, Rebel Studio, Reiner Knizia, Repos Games, Star Wars: the DeckBuilding Game, Unconscious Mind, Yoma
Posted on December 6, 2024
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At last, almost a week late, one of the probably longest posts I’ve written, because there are so many freakin’ games on it! Yes, this is the list of the eleven (!) new to me games I played in November 2024. December is not… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 11 Nimmt!, Alexander Pfister, Amigo Spiel, Azul: Queen's Garden, Bang: the Dice Game, Ben Rosset, Bezier Games, Brew Crafters, Daniel Byrne, Deckbuilders, Dice Hate Me Games, Dice-rolling, Economic Games, Eggertspiele, Gamewright Games, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Hidden Roles, Jonathan Cox, José Gerardo Guerrero, Kevin Peláez, Little Dog Games, Lukas Zach, Lunch Time Games, MESA Boardgames, Michael Kiesling, Michael Palm, Modiphius Entertainment, Next Move Games, Panamax, Push Your Luck Games, Qwixx, Rebel Princess, Rondel Games, Spring Cleaning, Star Trek: Lower Decks - Buffer Time: The Card Game, Steffen Benndorf, Tile-Laying Games, Tirso Virgós, Trick-taking games, Wolfgang Kramer
Posted on November 27, 2024
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If you’re a boardgamer and you haven’t heard of Dune: Imperium, what rock have you been hiding under? I know that Boardgame Geek is not the end-all and be-all of board games, the game itself is currently ranked 6th and the new “version” of… Continue Reading “Who the Heck is Ix? – App Expansion Review – Dune Imperium: the Rise of Ix”
Category: Apps, Board Games, ReviewTags: Android, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Dune Imperium - Rise of Ix, Expansions, ios, Paul Dennen, Steam, Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 20, 2024
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(1/14/25: This issue appears to have been fixed! A while back, actually, in December. Sorry for being late to report that. Not that anybody’s looking at this review anyway…) (11/28/24: It appears that Clank is suffering from the same asynchronous multiplayer problem that Dune:… Continue Reading “Delving the Virtual Depths – Clank app review”
Posted on February 11, 2024
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It’s been a long journey getting to this top 10. Not so much in weeks, as these posts have appeared for 5 weeks just like the previous Top 25 did (or they should have, but I’d forgotten that I took a much too long… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#10 – 1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, Action Selection, Ark Nova, Brad Johnson, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Christian Leonard, Clank in Space, Combat Commander: Europe, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Dire Wolf Digital, Earth, Engine-building, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Inside Up Games, Jason Matthews, Mathias Wigge, Maxime Tardif, Paul Dennen, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Time of Crisis, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Wray Ferrell
Posted on February 4, 2024
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How our tastes change over time is always kind of interesting to look at. As a kid, I loved Brussels Sprouts! Now, I really really hate them. Ok, I’m kidding…nobody sane likes Brussels Sprouts. But you get my point! Things you like as a… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#20-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Amalfi: Renaissance, Andrew Veen, Area Majority, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, ctr, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Deep Water Games, Dice-rolling, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Kayenta Games, Lunch Time Games, Nick Little, Obsession, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Peter Lee, Rio Grande Games, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Sydney Engelstein, Sylex, Tableau-building, Takeo Yamada, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Underwater Cities, Vladimír Suchý, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan, Worker Placement Games