Crowdfunding lets game creators bring their ideas to life with the help of the community. Players chip in through platforms like Kickstarter or Gamefound and get a copy of the game and often some fun extras in return. It’s a great way for fans to be part of a project from the start till the end.
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Caravanserai – There Was Definitely a Shorter Route
A caravanserai is probably a decent place to start if you want to make some money. Merchants are everywhere, travellers are passing through with goods to trade, and there always seems to be someone looking for something. In Caravanserai, we’re stable boys trying to turn that constant flow of business into a small fortune. We…
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 it doesn’t take long before things become more complicated. Your gardeners need wages, your roses…
Stag – Raising Beetles and Deciding Who to Trust
Beetles spend most of their early lives hidden underground, which sounds fairly peaceful. In Stag, their lives involve careful feeding, competition for space, evolutionary traits, and eventually a public disagreement in the middle of the table. You’ll raise different species from grub to pupa and then adult beetle, collecting everything they need along the way.…
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 everything seemed to fit together. Building factories led to more production, production led to influence, influence led to scoring, and somehow every decision created a…
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… there is a lot going on. Underneath all of that, though, is a game about building a reputation as one of Europe’s most respected instrument…
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. You play as toymakers trying to stitch these creatures together while fighting over limited materials, changing builds, and scoring chances that can disappear one turn…
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 is one of the few where our table actually started behaving differently after a couple of rounds. People became weirdly protective of certain cards. Somebody…
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 people argue with monsters, block roads out of spite, and settle rule discussions through something called “Shug Court”. That already tells you what kind of…
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” like it’s a threat… Burnout takes that feeling and turns it into a board game. In Burnout, players are employees competing for a promotion while…
Gazebo – Reiner Knizia Builds a Garden, Then Lets You Fight Over It
Reiner Knizia again. You kind of have an idea of what you’re getting… but I was still curious how this one would feel. It looks like a calm little garden game. Flowers, water, nice colors… you know the type. Something you put on the table when you don’t want anything too heavy. But after a…
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