Coffee Rush: Winter – Back Behind the Counter
Winter has arrived, customers are lining up, and somehow everyone wants a different drink. In Coffee Rush: Winter, we’re back behind the counter as baristas, moving around a small ingredient board, filling cups and trying to finish orders before customers…
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Scribble City – There Was Definitely a Plan
Starting a new city sounds quite exciting. Empty land, no traffic problems, no badly planned neighbourhoods and no road that somehow ends exactly where you need to build something. Give it a few rounds of Scribble City, though, and you’ll…
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Hiifuu – Two Tricks, Please
Winning tricks is normally the point of a trick-taking game. In Hiifuu, you need to be a little more restrained. Your aim each round is to win exactly two tricks. One isn’t enough, while a third means you’ve gone too…
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Rosalie – Stop and Smell the Roses… Then Get Back to Work
There is something quite peaceful about the idea of growing roses. You choose a few varieties, give them some care, perhaps add a greenhouse or fountain, and slowly turn a small plot into a beautiful garden. Rosalie starts there, but…
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Sandcastles – A Little Competition at the Beach
Going to the beach and building a sandcastle is usually a fairly relaxed activity. In Sandcastles, apparently somebody decided we needed to turn that into a competition as well. The game has everyone building their own castle from square tiles,…
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Wingspan Pocket – Can Six Birds Really Be Enough?
If you’ve played Wingspan, you probably know the general routine. You collect birds, feed them, lay eggs and slowly build a collection where one bird’s ability can help another. Wingspan Pocket takes several of those ideas and rebuilds them around…
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Sixto – What Are You Willing to Skip?
Some roll-and-writes shower you with bonuses, combos, special powers and enough chain reactions to make you forget which box you originally crossed. Sixto goes in a very different direction. It gives one to six players six coloured dice, a sheet…
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Brushwood – Berries, Birds and a Walk in the Woods
There are worse ways to spend an afternoon than walking through a forest looking for berries, mushrooms and the occasional hedgehog. That’s more or less what Brushwood asks us to do, although our hikers are apparently incapable of seeing a…
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Tolleno – Every Canal Leads to Another Decision
Some board games are easy to understand after watching a single turn. Tolleno isn’t really one of them. It looks straightforward enough. Place a tile, build a few houses, score some points. Then you realise almost every action affects what…
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Azure – An Engine Built on Position
Across the land run the Lung Mei, invisible dragon paths connected to the Four Auspicious Beasts: the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger and Black Tortoise. Energy builds when these paths continue in straight lines, while mountains interrupt and diffuse…
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