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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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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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