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Carnuta – A Druidic Potion Puzzle With Sun and Moon Runes
Deep in the forest of Carnuta, a group of druids comes together for their yearly ritual. Not to hug trees, although I’m not judging, but to brew potions and decide…
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2 PineApples – Count the Fruit Before It Changes
A pine, an apple, and a pineapple walk into a card game. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that is more or less what 2 PineApples…
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Wondrous Creatures: Winterfall – A Season of Change
The island of Starbeak was first discovered when explorers followed a strange bird with a glowing beak through the sea mist. On the other side, they found a mysterious island…
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Moon Colony Bloodbath – Build an Engine, Then Watch It Break
Humanity has finally made it. We have permanent settlements on the Moon, rockets are arriving with supplies, colonists are ready for a fresh start, and robots are standing by to…
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Las Vegas – The Biggest Payout Isn’t Always the Best
Welcome to Las Vegas, where everyone is chasing the biggest payouts, but the casino that looks the most attractive isn’t always the one you want to visit. One well-placed die…
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Toys – The Teddy Bear Has Had Enough
When the lights go out and the house finally goes quiet, the toys wake up. At least, that’s the idea behind Toys. On one side you have the old guard.…
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Bombastic – Three in a Row, If You Dare
Every tile in Bombastic is a question mark. Somewhere in the grid are the symbols you’re looking for. Somewhere else is a bomb that’s waiting for somebody to make a…
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Pinkuins – Keeping the Band Together
A group of penguins is about to play the biggest concert of their lives. The audience is ready, the instruments are waiting, and somehow you’ve ended up as the stage…
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Entropy – Building Solar Systems and Evolving Life
What if humanity didn’t just understand entropy, but actually learned how to control it? That’s the idea behind Entropy. In the game, players take on the role of apprentice scientists…
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Nippon: Genro – Add Political Influence to Your Zaibatsu
We’ve loved Nippon for a long time. Back when the original game released in 2015, it quickly became one of our favourite economic eurogames. It was simply a game where…
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Bavianenberg – Climbing Higher While Keeping Secrets
The battle for Bavianenberg has started, and it’s exactly as chaotic as a mountain full of ambitious baboons sounds. Six colourful baboon clans are trying to climb as high as…
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Spooky Tower – Catching Ghosts on Camera
For centuries, a magical amulet kept the town’s ghosts trapped inside the old clock tower. Then, of course, someone had to go and break it. Now the ghosts are roaming…
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Bunny Kingdom Town – More Than Just Bunny Kingdom for Two
When I first heard about Bunny Kingdom Town, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. The original Bunny Kingdom is a game about expanding across a large kingdom, claiming territories,…
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Luthier – Building More Than Instruments
When I first saw Luthier on the table, it was difficult to know where to look first. Instruments, patrons, performers, workshops, an orchestra running across the centre of the board……
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Oh My Pigeons! – A Flock of Trouble
When I first heard about a game where players compete to collect pigeons on a park bench, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. It’s not exactly a theme you…
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Himizu – Fire and Water Fight for Every Space
Sometimes a game arrives in a small box and you immediately think, “Alright, this should be quick.” That was pretty much our first reaction when we opened Himizu. The board…
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Cucumber Catastrophe – A Trick-Taking Game About Not Taking Tricks
Cats have a pretty good life. They sleep all day, get fed whenever they feel like it, and somehow still find reasons to complain. But in Cucumber Catastrophe, their peaceful…
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Fantastic Trails – Ants, Numbers, and the Long Way Home
When you first look at Fantastic Trails, it gives off a pretty relaxed first impression. Colourful artwork, cute ants, a small box… it all looks quite approachable. Then you start…
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Compile: Main 2 – Battling Across Three Protocols
Sometimes a game comes in a small box and immediately makes you wonder if there’s more going on than it first lets on. That was pretty much our first impression…
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Fluffypede – A Card Game of Plush Construction
The world of Fluffypede is built around this sudden obsession with giant fluffy plush creatures called Fluffypedes, and the whole thing feels just weird enough to immediately get your attention.…
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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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