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Is Expertise Overrated? – Era of Experts Review (Inventors of the South Tigris Expansion)
Era of Experts is the expansion for the really long and intricate, but still quite good Inventors of the South Tigris game from Garphill Games. It has taken a while to actually get enough plays of this expansion in order to do a review.… Continue Reading “Is Expertise Overrated? – Era of Experts Review (Inventors of the South Tigris Expansion)”
Friday Night Shots – Expansions Revisited
I know I’ve talked about expansions before on Friday Night Shots (both ones you won’t play again and whether or not you even like them to begin with), but a recent post on Boardgame Geek prompted another thought that I wanted to explore. Somebody… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Expansions Revisited”
Agency Aliens – SETI: Space Agencies Expansion Review
One of the huge hits from 2025, especially for me (hitting #12 on my Top 50 games of All Time list) was SETI. This game about scouring the solar system for various signs of alien life, all while trying to complete missions and land… Continue Reading “Agency Aliens – SETI: Space Agencies Expansion Review”
Clank! The Mummy’s Curse Coming Soon to Digital
(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”
Seasoned Expansions – Sea Salt & Paper Expansions Review
Sea Salt & Paper is a fun little card game for 2-4 players with beautiful origami artwork and interesting mechanics that make for a great filler game. Since it’s just a card game, you know that any expansions are going to be just, well,… Continue Reading “Seasoned Expansions – Sea Salt & Paper Expansions Review”
Rock Hard 1977 – Ear Candy – Coming in August 2026
This isn’t exactly “news,” because designer Jackie Fox has been talking about it for a while on Boardgame Geek. But hearing more detail (including a relative release date, which may have been announced before but it didn’t register in my brain) made me decide… Continue Reading “Rock Hard 1977 – Ear Candy – Coming in August 2026”
Have Fun Storming the Castle! – Doomlings-Castle Glass Bolster Pack Review
In a lot of card games where cards just keep getting issued and issued and issued and issued and… Oh, sorry. Thank you for that. Anyway, in a lot of card games that keep getting cards added to them, it’s not always that you… Continue Reading “Have Fun Storming the Castle! – Doomlings-Castle Glass Bolster Pack Review”
Dying on Strings – Final Girl – Carnage at the Carnival Review
As a kid, I was never really that fond of puppets. It’s not that they creeped me out, necessarily. They weren’t like clowns. I just never really went to puppet shows to be entertained, and Pinocchio was not one of my favourite Disney cartoons.… Continue Reading “Dying on Strings – Final Girl – Carnage at the Carnival Review”
Finding a Stranger in the Alps – Forest Shuffle – Alpine Expansion Review
(100,000 bonus points for anybody who gets the (kind of) movie reference in the title) I’ve been a fan of Forest Shuffle for quite a while, as you can tell from reading my review. This wonderful tableau-building game never really gets old and plays… Continue Reading “Finding a Stranger in the Alps – Forest Shuffle – Alpine Expansion Review”
It Could Be Anyone! – Final Girl – Panic at Station 2891 Review
Anybody with any horror movie knowledge has heard of The Thing, directed by John Carpenter. This 1982 movie takes place on an Antarctic base with some kind of organism or creature inhabiting people and slowly assimilating all of the members of the scientific team… Continue Reading “It Could Be Anyone! – Final Girl – Panic at Station 2891 Review”