This year was stock full of great games and events, so I better get on it right away. Abstracts for the Win Euro style games are often touted to have pasted-on theme. Abstract games traditionallyContinue reading
Category: Card Games
Top 10 Favorites for VariablePlay 2016
2016 was year that kept people aghast with every dumbfounding event that outdid the latter. While the rest of the world regrouped from every blow, board gaming was more than fine, in fact, it wasContinue reading
Bugs! Too many bugs!
A Xenoshyft Review “Trying to kill some bugs sir. Get out of here. GET OUT OF HERE!” – Sugar Watkins, Starship Troopers Movie (1997) The scuttling sound of claws scraping metal is getting louder byContinue reading
PlataPorma
PlataPorma – Political Story Telling Game. Free Print-to-Play. Designed by Ronald Villaver. CC Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) Sure about your bets this coming election? What makes your candidates stand above the rest? Use showmanship, quick witsContinue reading
The things we do for love.
The musician entangled in an embrace with his cello, candlelight flickered and danced about. The fragrance of lush sauces, herbs and spice filled the air as much as the sounds of bustling of pots andContinue reading
Top 10 things I am thankful for, last 2015
2015 was a great year in board gaming, both locally and globally. There were so many considerable games, the leading reviewers were having a hard time to cut down their list. Here’s my top 10Continue reading
A Game of Thrones 2nd Age
SPOILER ALERT: Jon Snow is really dead, but in the card game, he’s alive! Branding anything with “A Game of Thrones (aGoT)” turns anything to gold. Years ago, when Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) made anContinue reading
Simply Epic
The Wild demigod’s eyes glimmer gold. The ground cracks, and from a deep fissure out rumbles an 18-storey Burrowing Wurm. Its shriek sounding like a thousand caravans dragged beneath the sands. To this terror, theContinue reading
The way of the Spirit
Once upon a time, there was a quaint farming village nestled upon a hillside. There were six farmsteads and three families peacefully tending their produce. The village cemetary was nearby, where previous generations were laidContinue reading
Draw or you’re a Dead Man
Dead Man’s Draw is a card game that was actually first released as a free-to-play digital app by Stardock Entertainment. It’s a simple push-your-luck game with many twists. I recall saying to myself back then,Continue reading