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Review: Quantum
Quantum is a light, space-themed game. Players have ships which are represented by dice that travel between the planets trying to colonise them (place cubes on them). The first player to place all...
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Review: Strajk (Strike)
Strike is a game about Lech Wałęsa – a Polish electrician who became a trade-union activist, co-founded Solidarity (the Soviet bloc’s first independent trade union) and eventually went on to become...
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Review: Concept
My attempt at ‘Wheel of Fortune’ using TV show with ideas as the main concept. Then, adding a sub-concept of Title with circle, rotate & cash. Then, adding a sub-concept of Country with Red,...
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Review: Packet Row
One of my favourite board games ever is Oregon (which was the game the designers of Rattus made before Rattus). So, after many Rattus expansions, I was very excited when the Bergs announced a new,...
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Review: Camel Up
Camel Up is a simple game so it is surprising how much interaction there is and how lively it can be. During the game, camels move around a simple circuit; however, players do not own a specific camel...
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Review: Splendor
Splendor is a light, fast game of constant, small decisions. Overall, it’s a race to be the first player to score 15 Victory Points (VPs) by buying development cards using the 5 different coloured...
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Review: Mount Everest
Mount Everest is a game by the designer of K2 which is a great game and you can read my review of K2 for more details. (This review assumes you have not played K2 and I will talk about comparisons at...
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Review: Istanbul
At the bottom of the photo, you can see a player’s hand cart which has yet to be upgraded. When it is, the upgrade tile fills-up part of the missing piece. Istanbul is one of the games nominated for...
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Review: Rokoko
Rokoko is a euro-game about preparing for the ball at the Royal Palace. This may sound pretty light-weight but, do not be fooled, this is a euro-game with a lot of moving parts to work out, balance...
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Review: Freedom
Freedom: The Underground Railroad is a co-operative game of freeing slaves in 19th Century America. The board shows the Eastern United States with routes between cities. Slaves (represented by...
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Review: Lewis & Clark
Lewis & Clark is a game about the famous explorers’ journey across North America and the players race along the route from St Louis to Fort Clatsop (on the Pacific coast) which is a sequence of...
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Review: King and Assassins
King and Assassins is an asymmetric, 2-player game where the King player controls the king and his knights; whereas, the Assassin player controls the villagers in the town of which 3 are assassins who...
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Review: Race to the Rhine
Race to the Rhine is a game for up to 3 players who each play a WWII Allied General. You may be on the same side of the war but this is not a co-operative game – first player over the Rhine, or the...
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Review: Francis Drake
Francis Drake was one of my favourite games at Spiel 2013. A game of sailing, looting and plundering, but with strong eurogame mechanics and some psychological interplay between the players. During...
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Review: Nations
A player’s board showing their card slots. The first thing that strikes you about Nations is that it’s a civilisation game without a geographic board. Instead, Nations’ more abstracted approach to a...
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Review: Lords of Xidit
Lords of Xidit is a medium-weight eurogame whose core mechanic is about programming your moves and actions which results in a mix of short-term decision-making with some longer-term strategies. This...
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Review: 7 Days of Westerplatte
The players move around and defend the North of the board from the Germans who advance from the South. 7 Days of Westerplatte is a co-operative game about the opening shots of World War II, when a...
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Review: Orléans
The main board with the different character tracks on the left, the roads/rivers/cities where players move and build trading posts on the right, and development track across the bottom. Orléans is from...
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Review: Elysium
Elysium is Greek god themed game played over 5 rounds and the player with the most victory points (VPs) is the winner. Each round, players take turns taking either one of the god cards available that...
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Review: Star Wars: Empire vs Rebellion
Star Wars: Empire vs Rebellion is a 2-player card game which uses the core game mechanics of Cold War: CIA v KGB with some changes and a Star Wars theme. (As Cold War: CIA v KGB is one of my favourite...
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