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Link City – Building by Association
Most cooperative games ask players to stop something terrible from happening. A virus spreads across the world, monsters appear, a spaceship breaks apart, or somebody accidentally opens a portal to…
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Wine & Cheese – Balancing Production in Burgundy
In Wine & Cheese, two farmsteads in Burgundy are trying to make the best wine and cheese over two years. The setting sounds calm: vineyards, pastures, cellars, little workers moving…
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Spytails – When Winning the Trick Is Not Always Good
There are a lot of card games about spies, secret plans, and hidden information. Most of them say you should bluff and outplay each other. Spytails: Tactics in the Shadows…
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Giraffe Raffe – Climbing Toward the Last Apple
In Giraffe Raffe, a group of hungry giraffes gathers around apple trees, all trying to reach fruit hanging just a little too high above them. At first glance, it looks…
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Madcala – Wonderland Mancala
When I first saw Madcala on the table, I expected something chaotic. Colorful gems, twisted Wonderland characters, glowing cats with creepy smiles, oversized tea-party artwork… it gives the impression that…
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Planepita – Aliens on a Magnetic Planet
Far beyond Earth, different alien factions are fighting over control of a drifting planet somewhere in space. Players launch their little alien crews onto the surface using cardboard launch pads,…
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Threaded – Building Patterns Without Losing the Thread
When we first put Threaded on the table, I expected something softer and more relaxed. The artwork screams cosy crafting game. Bright colours, woven patterns, little yarn cubes everywhere… it…
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Wingspan: Americas Expansion – Hummingbirds Enter the Habitat
In Wingspan, you spend most of the game building little combinations of birds, food, eggs, and card effects while trying to turn your nature reserve into a proper point machine…
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Got Five! – Everyone Sees Your Numbers Except You
There’s something slightly uncomfortable about sitting at a table where everybody can see your numbers except you. That’s basically the whole idea behind Got Five!, and it works better than…
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Moddervarkens: Schoonheidswedstrijd – The Beauty Pig Expansion
Farmer Bert has clearly accepted that his pigs are never going to behave like respectable farm animals. Right before the big village beauty contest, they once again decide to throw…
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Tanbo – Harvesting in Circles
When we first saw Tanbo, we thought it was going to be one of those small farming games you play while relaxing with a cup of tea. Cute rice paddies,…
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Strategeti – An Abstract Battle with Animal Instincts
When we first saw Strategeti, we expected something pretty light. Animal miniatures, warm colours, Serengeti theme… you kind of assume it’s going to be a relaxed family strategy game where…
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SHUG – A Social Fantasy Adventure Full of Strange Encounters
There are games where you sit there planning five turns ahead and trying to optimise every little move. Shug really doesn’t care much about that. This is a game where…
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Coloro – Chasing Colors Across a Shrinking Grid
Coloro is one of those games that looks a lot softer than it actually is. You see the colorful wooden pieces, the little origami symbols, the clean layout on the…
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Night Soil – A Dirty Job, but Somebody Has to Do It
Board games keep getting stranger, and I kind of love that. We’ve reached a point where games are no longer afraid to explore really odd themes, and sometimes those end…
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Forest Shuffle – More Than a Relaxing Nature Game
Nature games have become really popular lately, and I get why. There is something nice about sitting around a table building forests, planting trees, and pretending we are all peaceful…
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Burnout – Surviving Office Life
I think most of us have had at least one job that slowly drained the life out of us. Endless meetings, strange management decisions, somebody replying “per my last email”…
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Moddervarkens (Drecksau / Dirty Pig) – Keeping Your Pigs Dirty
In Moddervarkens, every pig just wants one thing in life: mud. Your job is to make sure all your pigs end up filthy before the other players manage to do…
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Card Trip Europe – Drafting a Road Trip Across Europe
There’s something fun about games that immediately make you think about travelling. Not in the big “quit your job and backpack across Europe” kind of way, but more like scrolling…
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Maestro – A Heavy Eurogame About Artistic Rivalry
Renaissance Italy must have been exhausting. Every city wanted to prove it was richer, more cultured, more important than the next one. Art was everywhere, but not in the museum…
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Wingspan – A Look at the Fan Art Pack
Most expansions try to give you more stuff to manage. More rules, more boards, more tokens you’ll forget the purpose of halfway through the first game. The Wingspan Fan Art…
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Toy Battle – Toy Armies Fight for Control
Few things work better in board games than the simple idea of toys coming to life and fighting each other. It instantly makes people curious. In Toy Battle, pirate monkeys,…
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Little Soldiers – Tiny Plastic Wars on Your Table
There’s something weirdly nostalgic about little plastic army men. Almost everyone has probably used them at some point. Under the sofa, on the windowsill, behind books, fighting battles that made…
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Emberleaf – A Forest Full of Small Decisions
In Emberleaf, you take on the role of an Emberling, one of the small creatures trying to rebuild their forest home. The idea is quite simple. You explore different clearings,…
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