Posted on December 10, 2021
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(Edit – 7/14/22) – It’s now available to wishlist on Steam and is coming July 28! Wasn’t going to post anything today, but then I got an email from Dire Wolf Digital announcing that their next digital project is Everdell! I’ve always wanted to… Continue Reading “Everdell Coming to an App in 2022 From Dire Wolf Digital”
Posted on December 8, 2021
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(Edit: This game is on my Top 25 games played of all time!) What happens when one of your favourite games gets a bit of a revamp where it’s faster and also uses some mechanisms from other games that you like? It’s not the… Continue Reading “Review – Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition”
Posted on December 6, 2021
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(Edit 1/11/22: The Kickstarter is now live!) Having just played Viscounts of the West Kingdom for the first time yesterday (after having it for over a year but then COVID lockdown hit), I was very excited to see this on Twitter yesterday. Woo! I… Continue Reading “Viscounts of the West Kingdom expansion on Kickstarter January 11, 2022”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, NewsTags: Area Control, Deckbuilders, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Gates of Gold, Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Keeper of Keys
Posted on September 22, 2021
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We’re heading into the home stretch with our look at the Top 300 games on Boardgame Geek. I may even finish before October! Wouldn’t that be a hoot? I’ve actually really enjoyed doing this list, even as I stated last week that it just… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #220-211”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Kwapiński, Age of Empires III: Discovery, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, Auction Games, Awaken Realms, Blue Orange Games, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Civilization Building, CMON, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Dixit: Odyssey, Fantasy Flight Games, Frank Brooks, Fury of Dracula, Glenn Drover, Hand Management, Hidden Movement, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Imperial Settlers, Jean-Louis Roubira, John D Clair, Kevin Wilson, Kingdomino, Libellud, Lords of Hellas, Lunch Time Games, Modern Art, Portal Games, Pulsar 2849, Reiner Knizia, Space Alert, Space Base, Stephen Hand, Tile-Laying Games, Tropical Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Vladimír Suchý
Posted on August 30, 2021
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What? Two editions of this list in two weeks? Could Dave be back? I wouldn’t count on it, but this is a welcome thing to see! My editor is very happy (Editor: Yeah, so happy I could almost not speak in a monotone) It’s… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #250 – 241”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Above and Below, Abstract Games, Action Points, Arcane Wonders, Area Control, Benjamin Pope, Bryan Pope, Card Drafting, Century: Spice Road, City Building, CMON, Concordia Venus, Cthulhu Wars, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Emerson Matsuuchi, Ethnos, Gen42 Games, Grid Movement, Hand Management, Herve Lemaitre, Hive, John Yianni, Kolossal Games, Lincoln Petersen, Lunch Time Games, Mac Gerdts, Mage Wars Arena, Onitama, Osprey Games, Paolo Mori, Petersen Games, Plan B Games, Red Raven Games, Rio Grande Games, Ryan Laukat, Sandbox games, Sandy Petersen, Set Collection Games, Shimpei Sato, Tile-Laying Games, Trevor Benjamin, Undaunted: Normandy, Wargames, Western Legends
Posted on March 19, 2021
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I such a timely guy, aren’t I? The first post in this series came out what seems like months ago (it was over a month ago, on February 15). What’s taken so long for the second post? Would you believe I fell asleep? All… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #290-281”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alderac, Altiplano, Andrew Wolf, Area Control, Auction Games, Bag Building, Barenpark, Bill Eberle, Card Games, Deckbuilders, Die Macher, Dmitry Knorre, Dominic Crapuchettes, Dune, Evolution: Climate, Forrest-Pruzan Creative, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Hans im Gluck, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, Jack Kittredge, Julian Courtland-Smith, Kami Mandell, Karl-Heinz Schmiel, Lookout Games, Love Letter, Lunch Time Games, Michal Oracz, Neuroshima Hex 3.0, North Star Games, Notre Dame, Peter Olotka, Phil Walker-Harding, Portal Games, Push Your Luck Games, Ravensburger, Reiner Stockhausen, Renegade Games Studios, Seiji Kanai, Sergey Machin, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Survive: Escape from Atlantis, The Op, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on March 1, 2021
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It’s now March and the Cult of the New to Me is getting restless. We’re now close to a year since lockdowns and social distancing became a thing rather than some abstract concept. This past weekend, a year ago, I was coming home from… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Abyss, Auction Games, Bombyx, Bruno Cathala, Card Drafting, Card Games, Charles Chevallier, Hand Management, Lunch Time Games, Luxor, Queen Games, Rüdiger Dorn, Set Collection Games
Posted on December 23, 2020
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‘Twas the day before the day before the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. (Certainly not this blogger.) The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Vital would… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #120-111”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Acram Digital, Age of Steam, Alan R Moon, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, Ben Cichoski, Bob Naismith, Card Drafting, Carl de Visser, Chaos in the Old World, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Cranio Creations, Daniel Mandel, Darwin Kastle, Days of Wonder, Dead of Winter, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Francesco Nepitello, Hand Management, Isaac Vega, Istanbul, Jarratt Gray, Jonathan Gilmour, Legendary Encounters: an Alien Deck Building Game, Marco Maggi, Martin Wallace, Modular Board, Plaid Hat Games, Point to Point Movement, Rüdiger Dorn, Robert Dougherty, Roberto Di Meglio, Set Collection Games, Star Realms, Ticket to Ride: Europe, Train Games, Upper Deck, Vinhos: Deluxe Edition, Vital Lacerda, War of the Ring, White Wizard Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 1, 2020
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Yes, there is a shower of toads raining down on Vancouver right now. Yes, Hell has frozen over and the devil is ice skating. That’s right, this post is actually coming out a week after the last post! I know you’re all amazed, right?… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #170-161”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Abstract Games, Action Points, Alan R Moon, Auction Games, CMON, Coimbra, Darwin Kastle, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Devin Low, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Eggertspiele, Flaminia Brasini, Go, Goa, Hand Management, HUCH Games, Inka Brand, Jean-Baptiste Lullien, Jens Christopher Ulrich, Kanban: Driver's Edition, Markus Brand, Marvel Legendary, Miniatures, Nicolas Raoult, Rajas of the Ganges, Raphaël Guiton, Rüdiger Dorn, Richard Ulrich, Rio Grande Games, Robert Dougherty, Star Realms, Star Realms: Colony Wars, Stronghold Games, The Princes of Florence, Ticket to Ride, Tile-Laying Games, Upper Deck, Virginio Gigli, Vital Lacerda, White Wizard Games, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games, Zman Games, Zombicide: Black Plague, Zombies
Posted on September 2, 2020
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When I began this series about the Boardgame Geek rankings and talking about the games in them, I didn’t think it would be this difficult. The Top 100 was pretty static. So when I spent the first part of the week putting all of… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #190-181”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1830: Railways & Robber Barons, 18XX, Abstract Games, Alexander Pfister, Andreas Pelikan, Andrew Veen, Area Control, Cambridge Game Factory, Card Drafting, Card Games, Carl Chudyk, Cartographers: a Roll Player Tale, Cédrick Chaboussit, Darwin Kastle, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Ed Carter, Francis Tresham, Friedemann Friese, Gale Force 9, Gamewright Games, Glory to Rome, Hand Management, Hero Realms, HUCH Games, Isle of Skye, Jordy Adan, Kris Burm, Lewis & Clark: the Expedition, Line-Drawing Games, Lookout Games, Ludonaute, Peter Lee, Phil Walker-Harding, Power Grid Deluxe, Racing Game, Ravensburger, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Robert Dougherty, Rodney Thompson, Sushi Go Party, The Quest for El Dorado, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tyrants of the Underdark, YINSH