Category: BG Review
Freedom: The Underground Railroad from Academy Games, designed by Brian Mayer, is a brain-burning and engrossing cooperative strategy game with an educational and emotionally heavy theme, which it treats very well for a board game. Mechanically, it offers something unique… Read More »
Century: Golem Edition, from Plan B Games and designed by Emerson Matsuuchi, is a re-theme of the excellent Century: Spice Road. This game is a resource-conversion, hand-building, engine-building game that falls right into the medium-light weight category, and it is… Read More »
Spyfall and Spyfall 2, from Cryptozoic Entertainment are simply a blast. You’re bound to have lots of fun trying to suss out the spy or avoid detection if you’re the spy, yourself. These are quick, easy, and open-ended social deduction… Read More »
Unearth is a 2-4 player, dice-based set collection game from Brotherwise Games and designers Jason Harner and Matthew Ransom. With elements of push your luck and area control, as well as plenty of mitigation and multiple ways to approach point-scoring,… Read More »
Masmorra is a light dungeon crawl from CMON with competitive and cooperative modes. It utilizes an engaging dice-based action selection system, and lets 1-5 players fight, loot, and explore three levels of a dynamic dungeon map. This is definitely a… Read More »
Viticulture Essential Edition is a refinement of Stonemaier Games’ Viticulture, designed by Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone, and Morten Pedersen. It’s a worker placement game in which players try to score the most points the fastest by performing a variety of… Read More »
Bärenpark, from Mayfair Games and designer Phil Walker-Harding, is a tile-placement game in which players fit together various polyomino-shaped tiles on a grid in their own personal bear-centric zoo, earning points for certain tiles and for achieving specific goals as… Read More »
Ice Cool is a 2-4 player dexterity game from Brain Games and designer Alex Gomez. It recently won the Kinderspiel des Jahres award for 2016 releases, and we think it’s a fine game and worthy winner, especially in its board… Read More »
Secret Hitler is a social deduction game for 5-10 players, published by Goat Wolf & Cabbage, and it’s a great one. The use of real information in the form of the liberal and fascist policies players take turns passing and… Read More »
Eddie takes a deep dive into the big, six-module expansion, Orléans: Invasion from Tasty Minstrel Games designed by Reiner Stockhausen and Inka & Markus Brand. The expansion consists of one multiplayer competitive scenario, one multiplayer cooperative scenario, a two-player duel,… Read More »
