A Gaming Life
Posted on May 14, 2025 by whovian223
(this is going to be a review of both the game and the app, since I’ve played the tabletop game a bunch too) There’s something peaceful about a good tile-laying game where everybody is creating their own habitat for God’s natural wonders, both flora… Continue Reading “The Beauty of Northwest Tiles – Cascadia App Review”
Category: Apps, Board Games, ReviewTags: Alderac, Cascadia, Dire Wolf Digital, Flatout Games, Lunch Time Games, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on May 2, 2025 by whovian223
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 May 1, 2025 by whovian223
As expected after last month’s post, where March had a huge number of games because of a convention, April came back down to earth with a much fewer amount of games. However, it was much better than February! Which means it was a good… Continue Reading “April 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Bezier Games, Combat Commander, Contracts, Delicious Games, Faraway, Faraway: People From Below, GMT Games, Kosmos, Lost Cities, Lunch Time Games, Minigolf Designer, Pandasaurus Games, Rebel Princess Deluxe, Resafa, Rio Grande Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games
Posted on April 18, 2025 by whovian223
Wow, it has been a spell, hasn’t it? With so many new to me games in March, I broke the usual monthly post into two posts, thinking I’d get them done a few days a part. Yeah, I think I got into one of… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2025 – Part 2”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Aske Christiansen, Card Games, Catch Up Games, CuBirds, Delicious Games, Economic Games, Firestarter Games, Gamelyn Games, Hinata Origuchi, HUCH Games, Inka Brand, Living Forest, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Markus Brand, New Mill Industries, Pandasaurus Games, Push Your Luck Games, Rajas of the Ganges: Cards & Karma, Reforest, Resafa, Rio Grande Games, Sébastien Bernier-Wong, Scott Almes, Seven Prophecies, Stefan Alexander, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Quest, Trick-taking games, Vladimír Suchý
Posted on April 1, 2025 by whovian223
As I mentioned in my March Games played post, I played a lot of games last month. Not only that, but a whole 14 of them were new to me! That means this post would be monstrously long if I tried to pack it… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2025 – Part 1”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Alessandro Zucchini, Bruno Faidutti, CMYK, Czech Games Edition, David Gordon, Deduction, Eric Lang, Finspan, Fives, Junghee Choi, Lunch Time Games, Michael O'Connell, Mighty Boards, Orapa Mine, Paolo Mori, Playte, Rebirth, Reiner Knizia, Repos Games, Secrets, SETI, Social Deduction Games, Stonemaier Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tomáš Holek, Toy Battle, Trick-taking games, Wanjin Gill
Posted on March 20, 2025 by whovian223
Last weekend was the 10th (maybe 11th?) annual Terminal City Tabletop Convention (though I guess it was interrupted by COVID so not actually 11?). I have to say it was probably the best yet. In previous years, the people running it didn’t do the… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2025”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Auction Games, Bombyx, Brotherwise Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Catch Up Games, CMYK, Cooperative Games, CuBirds, Czech Games Edition, Deduction, Dice Placement, Empire's End, Fantastic Factories, Faraway, Finspan, Firestarter Games, Fives, Garphill Games, Huch & Friends, Kosmos, Living Forest, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Metafactory Games, Mighty Boards, Multi-use cards, Oink Games, Orapa Mine, Pandasaurus Games, Playte, Push Your Luck Games, Rajas of the Ganges: Cards & Karma, Rebirth, Reforest, Repos Games, Resource Management, Scholars of the South Tigris, SCOUT, Sea Salt & Paper, Secrets, Set Collection Games, SETI, Social Deduction Games, Stonemaier Games, The Gang, Tile-Laying Games, Toy Battle, Trick-taking games
Posted on February 28, 2025 by whovian223
February wasn’t a great month for me overall, in terms of posting (or mental health, really). But it was a great month for games! Missing the first Sunday of the month due to weather, and then only one game on Super Bowl Sunday, I… Continue Reading “February 2025 Gaming”
Posted on February 3, 2025 by whovian223
Another year and another month of new to me games. It’s 2025 now and things are still going strong on the new to me front, with four whole new ones this last month! No first impressions posts this time, though, so I’ll be talking… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Akropolis, Arcs, Area Majority, Card Drafting, Card Games, Castle Combo, Catch Up Games, Cole Wehrle, Gigamic, Grégory Grard, Jules Messaud, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Mathieu Roussel, Mob Plus, Panda Panda, Set Collection Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano)
Posted on January 8, 2025 by whovian223
I’ve been writing this blog for almost 8 years now, doing a monthly “new to me” post for just as long (it started in April 2017, but it was about March’s games!), and I often do “best games played” of the year if I’m… Continue Reading “Top 10 New to Me Games of 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to Me, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Civolution, Contracts, Corentin Lebrat, Delicious Games, Devir, Dice Placement, Eggertspiele, Eric Hong, Faraway, Forest Shuffle, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Harmonies, Jackie Fox, Johan Benvenuto, Johannes Goupy, Josh Wood, Kosch, Let's Go to Japan, Libellud, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pirates of Maracaibo, Racing Game, Ralph Bienert, Rock Hard 1977, Rondel Games, Ryan Hendrickson, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Vale of Eternity, Vladimír Suchý, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 6, 2024 by whovian223
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
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