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Eddie demonstrates a three-player game of Arboretum by Dan Cassar and Renegade Game Studios. This thinky card came demands strong hand-management skills as players build paths of trees in their personal tableaus while trying to maintain the highest value of… Read More »
Eddie demonstrates a two-player game of The Palace of Mad King Ludwig by Ted Alspach of Bezier Games. This tile-laying game sees players all working to build — room by room — a single palace, earning rewards for placing and… Read More »
Feudum: The Queen’s Army is a solo and co-op/semi-co-op expansion for Feudum, from Odd Bird Games. It pits players against an automated opponent who sets out to kill the game’s behemoth, and then the player or players, scoring veneration points… Read More »
Near and Far is Red Raven Games’ 2017 sequel to Above and Below, and is another storytelling game that now adds worker placement and elements of area control and route-building to an adventure-style game experience, complete with a campaign mode!… Read More »
Eddie recaps PAX Unplugged 2018. Yes, while driving (to explain the road noise). Eddie talks through the games he played at PAX Unplugged 2018. There were great ones and not so great ones, but overall, the convention was a hit… Read More »
Architects of the West Kingdom, from Renegade Game Studios and designers Shem Phillips and SJ Macdonald of Garphill Games, is a unique resource gathering, action-selection and action-development game featuring the same beautiful art style as seen in the North Sea… Read More »
The Quest for El Dorado, a deck-building race game from Ravensburger and designer Reiner Knizia, is quick, fun, and a great lightweight option. Players will compete on a modular board, playing cards from their personal decks in order to move… Read More »
Century: Eastern Wonders is the successor to the successful hand-management game, Century: Spice Road by Emerson Matsuushi, from Plan B Games. This time, Emerson has create a spacial action selection and goods conversion game with elements of pick-up-and-deliver. But the… Read More »
Eddie reviews Legends of Andor: The Last Hope from Kosmos. Designer/Artist Michael Menzel’s third and final(?) entry into the fantasy-puzzle-adventure Legends of Andor series is up for review on this episode of The GamerNode Show. Eddie takes a look at… Read More »
Eddie reviews Folklore: The Affliction from Greenbrier Games. Have designers Nick Blain and Will Donovan of Greenbrier Games done the impossible – make a board game that replicates the tabletop RPG experience in a streamlined, yet gameplay- and narrative-rich experience?… Read More »
