Wayfarers of the South Tigris Review
Wayfarers combines traditional worker-placement, dice-as-workers, and tableau-building and it does it brilliantly. Like, chef’s kiss good.
Wayfarers combines traditional worker-placement, dice-as-workers, and tableau-building and it does it brilliantly. Like, chef’s kiss good.
Faraway is one of those games that actually deserves the hype, and deserves its recent As d’Or win.
Explorers of Navoria is a concise, streamlined, tableau-building game, and I really like it.
When is a city-builder, not a city-builder? When it’s an engine-builder. Point City is a quick, bright, and easy game about building a city.
Earth is the ideal game to play while you’re sitting around a table with people you like, having a chill time making little wooden towers.
The alternate drafting is really interesting and adds a nice little squeeze of tension, drizzled over the top of the game.
Over the course of a game, you’re going to make seven railway lines with twelve cards. No more, no less.
Flatout Games has built a good name for itself with its previous games, Calico and Cascadia. Verdant picks up the baton and keeps running, delivering another solid, clever game
All too often I’ve seen the hype for new games fade quicker than a cheap sparkler, but here we are, a year later, and people are still talking about Ark Nova. Mathias Wigge might not be a name you knew a year ago, so should you know it now?
BCE 44 builds on the infamous events of the eponymous year when Julius Caesar was assassinated on the floor of the Senate, by a group of senators who worried that he had too much power over the empire