Tag: Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria
Posted on January 3, 2026
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Two years goes by so fast. Hell, even a month goes by so fast, as I remember looking forward to all of the holiday fun and time off in December, and now it’s January and where did the time go? However, it has been… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, 687, Action Selection, Arcs, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, Contracts, Daily Magic Games, Daniel Bullock, David Gordon, Deep Water Games, Dice Placement, Drafting Games, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Finspan, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943-44, Inventors of the South Tigris, Jo Kelly, Joe Schmidt, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Michael O'Connell, Molly House, PubMeeple, Roll and Move, Root, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stan Kordonskiy, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Trick-taking games, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan
Posted on January 2, 2026
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December turned out to be a gaming lost cause for the most part. Two Sundays cancelled for various reasons, one shortened one, and a bunch of work stuff going on so lunches weren’t always available as well. In fact, if it wasn’t for my… Continue Reading “December 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Adam's Apple Games, Alderac, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Combat Commander, Contracts, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Fliptoons, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Planet Unknown, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Riftlands, Social Deduction Games, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Valley of the Kings: Last Rites, Wargames, Werewords Deluxe, Word Games
Posted on August 1, 2025
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Being off for almost the entire month of July, I wasn’t expecting much on the gaming front. However, I managed to attended a Wednesday night meet-up a couple of times, which greatly helped take the place of our normal lunchtime games at work, at… Continue Reading “July 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 2-Player Games, Arcane Wonders, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Card Shedding, Combat Commander, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Favor of the Pharaoh, GMT Games, Little Dog Games, Lookout Games, NEOM, Push Your Luck Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Smartphone Inc, Spring Cleaning, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames
Posted on June 28, 2024
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It’s vacation time! Today was my last day of work for 4 weeks, and wow has this been needed. I’m hoping that my blog output will increase a bit this month as I have more mental capacity to actually write. But we’ll see what… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Modular Expansions & Stories”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Alexander Pfister, John D Clair, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Oh My Goods, Oh My Goods - Escape to Canyon Brook, Oh My Goods - Longsdale in Revolt, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Riftlands, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Rise of Titans, Space Base, Space Base: Biodome, Space Base: Dreadnaughts, Space Base: The Emergence of Shy Pluto, Space Base: The Mysteries of Terra Proxima, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan: Expansion Period, Teotihuacan: Late Preclassic Period, Teotihuacan: Shadow of Xitle
Posted on May 24, 2024
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It’s been a little while since I raved about the virtues of Folded Space boardgame inserts! I bought three of them at the same time back in December, but then only assembled the Guild Academies of Valeria one. However, I’ve now put together the… Continue Reading “Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria – Storage Solution from Folded Space”
Posted on March 1, 2024
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Two Fridays in a row! Welcome back to the bar. I hope you’re enjoying the excessively wet evening out there. Why not cozy up to the bar, get some heat going, along with a drink of some sort, and just have a chat? I… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – 5 Player Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: 1960: The Making of a President, Arcana Rising, Daily Magic Games, GMT Games, Grey Fox Games, Hansa Teutonica, Ion Game Design, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Stationfall, Z-Man Games
Posted on February 9, 2024
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Welcome back! I know it’s been a couple of weeks, but I was taking some time putting a new bar up. With heated seats! I hope that works ok and isn’t a fire hazard. Oops. Anyway, have a seat and let me get you… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Old vs New?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Ark Nova, Board & Dice, Daily Magic Games, Explorers of the North Sea, Ezra & Nehemiah, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, Jump Drive, Nucleum, Obsession, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Smash Up, Stationfall
Posted on January 21, 2024
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Two weeks and two entries into this list. Maybe I’ll be able to actually do this weekly, unlike in 2022! It was interesting doing a Top 50 rather than a Top 25. Some games have fallen enough that they wouldn’t even be listed if… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#40-31)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Block Wargames, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Darwin's Journey, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Economic Games, Eilif Svensson, Formal Ferret Games, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Helge Meissner, Ivan Lashin, John D Clair, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Nestore Mangone, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Revive, Richard Borg, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Smartphone Inc, Space Base, Stan Kordonskiy, Stefan Feld, The Networks, Thundergryph Games, Tile-Laying Games, Virginio Gigli, Wargames
Posted on December 22, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s the last Friday before Christmas and all through the malls, too many creatures were stirring, so much so that I would rather carve Shem Phillips’ initials into my hand with a penknife than go shopping. I think that’s how that old Christmas poem… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Catch Up Mechanisms”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Auction Games, Cryptozoic, Daily Magic Games, DC Comics Deck-Building Game, Dice Drafting, Food Chain Magnate, Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism and Other Ideas, Formal Ferret Games, GMT Games, Isle of Skye, Mayfair Games, Power Grid, Rio Grande Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Splotter Spellen, The Networks, Twilight Struggle, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 21, 2023
by whovian223
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Who knew being evil could be so much fun? There aren’t a whole lot of boardgames where you are playing the bad guy (unless you’re in a one vs many game). A well-respected one that I’d love to play sometime is Dungeon Lords from… Continue Reading “Review – Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria”
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