Posted on March 4, 2020
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I should have posted this yesterday, but wanted to get the Dice Tower Con post out and I don’t like to do two major posts in one day. Yesterday morning, the Kickstarter for one of my most anticipated games went live. Viscounts of the… Continue Reading “Viscounts of the West Kingdom now on Kickstarter”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, NewsTags: Deckbuilders, Garphill Games, kickstarter, Renegade Games Studios, Rondel Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Tomesaga, Viscounts of the West Kingdom
Posted on February 10, 2020
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Whew! I’m finally awake again after finishing last week’s Part 1 of my “New to Me Games – January” post. That really took a lot out of me. It’s been a week and I’m just now recovering! Excuse me while I hop on my… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2020 (Part 2)”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, Artipia Games, At the Gates of Loyang, Bag Building, Bluffing, Card Drafting, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Druid City Games, Ecos: First Continent, Evan Lorentz, Farming, Fields of Green, Haakon Gaarder, John D Clair, Party Games, Renegade Games Studios, Roll and Write Games, Scott Caputo, Set Collection Games, Sinister Fish Games, Sorcerer City, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Tasty Minstrel Grames, That's Pretty Clever, Tile-Laying Games, Tim McKnight, Uwe Rosenberg, Vangelis Bagiartakis, Villagers, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on February 4, 2020
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It’s a brand new year! And this time, I can actually say that while talking about 2020 games (unlike last month). January was a busy month for new-to-me games. I went to two conventions on back-to-back weekends (that was a lot of fun but… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2020 (Part 1)”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Area Control, Bag Building, Bunny Kingdom, Caleb Grace, Card Drafting, Circadians: First Light, Corey Konieczka, Daily Magic Games, Dice Placement, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Henry Audobon, Horizons, Iello Games, Isaias Vallejo, Keymaster Games, Levi Mote, Living Card Games, Lunch Time Games, Marvel Champsions: the Card Game, Michael Boggs, Nate French, North Star Games, Parks, Pick Up & Deliver, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Garfield, Rick Holzgrafe, Set Collection Games, SJ MacDonald, Star Wars: Outer Rim, Tableau-building, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tile-Laying Games, Tony Fanchi, Villages of Valeria, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on January 8, 2020
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Whew! After telling you the first half of my Top 10 games played in 2019, I needed a break. Being surrounded by all that awesomeness can be tiring! But now I’m back with the bottom half of the list. These are the 5 best… Continue Reading “Top 10 Games Played in 2019 (5-1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, Andrew Veen, Architects of the West Kingdom, Area Control, Brad Johnson, Card-Driven Game, Christian Leonard, Cole Wehrle, Deckbuilders, Gale Force 9, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Jason Matthews, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Peter Lee, Renegade Games Studios, Rodney Thompson, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Time of Crisis, Tyrants of the Underdark, Wehrlegig Games, Worker Placement Games, Wray Ferrell
Posted on January 6, 2020
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It’s that time of year again! Time to look back at 2019 and see what games I played this year and which ones I definitely want to play again. Also, which ones can be left by the side of the road looking all forlorn… Continue Reading “Top 10 Games Played in 2019 (10-6)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Formal Ferret Games, Frosted Games, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, Jacob Fryxelius, Lunch Time Games, Matthias Cramer, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Paul Dennen, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Terraforming Mars, The Networks, The Networks: the Executives, Watergate, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 3, 2020
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Happy New Year! As we start the new year here at the Cult of the New to Me, we want to look back at the previous month, because looking back is what we do! That’s right. We never talk about the new to me… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alexander Pfister, Bluffing, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Crowd Games, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Exploration, Filip Miłuński, Granna Games, Great Western Trail, Great Western Trail: Rails to the North, Hurrican Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Nagaraja, North Star Games, Simone Luciani, Space Explorers, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Théo Rivière, The Taverns of Tiefenthal, Tile-Laying Games, Warsaw: City of Ruins, Wolfgang Warsch, Yuri Zhuravljov, Zman Games
Posted on December 2, 2019
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It’s December! The last month of the year, the Christmas (or whatever end-of-year holiday you celebrate) season is upon us, but before we look forward to all of those presents sitting under the tree (or sitting under whatever your end-of-year holiday object is), it’s… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Bezier Games, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Czech Games Edition, DOG, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Frosted Games, Letter Jam, Lunch Time Games, Matthias Cramer, Mike Elliott, Ondra Skoupý, Pick Up & Deliver, Renegade Games Studios, Res Arcana, Sand Castle Games, Tableau-building, Ted Alspach, Terror Below, The City, Tom Lehmann, Watergate, Werewords Deluxe, Word Games
Posted on September 9, 2019
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It’s my birthday! Yes, I’m turning the big 49 today, and in celebration, I’m going to tell you the 49 games I’m really anticipating over the next few months. Ok, no. I’m not that much of a masochist. Instead, the number 4 is part… Continue Reading “Birthday Post – 4 Games I’m Looking Forward To”
Category: Board Games, Opinion, PersonalTags: Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein, Alderac, Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Dan Blanchett, Ecos: First Continent, John D Clair, Lunch Time Games, Matthias Cramer, Mike Elliott, Plaid Hat Games, Renegade Games Studios, Tableau-building, Terror Below, Tile-Laying Games, Watergate, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 20, 2019
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Apparently, the world isn’t going to end through nuclear fire, an asteroid hitting it, or aliens invading and overwhelming us with their cuteness (and deadly plasma weapons that they whip out while we’re all cooing over them). No, the world is going to… Continue Reading “Review – Colony”
Posted on June 21, 2019
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Some days you just want to stay in bed. And some days, you want to go out and conquer a bunch of hexagonal-shaped tiles with a bunch of barbarians on them before some other conquering civilization does. Because you snooze, you lose, know what… Continue Reading “Review – Deus”
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