Hi all — I’m excited to introduce a new monthly feature that I’ll be posting on this blog — the Haven Journals. I’m currently playing through Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 with some friends, and am writing recaps of each session. The recaps will be written from the perspective of the characters we’ve created, in a narrative… Read More New Feature: The Haven Journals
Battlestar Galactica has been pretty high up on my board gaming to-do list for a while now. A heavily thematic social deduction game with hidden traitors — that’s right in my wheelhouse. So a couple of months ago when a new friend mentioned that he owned a copy of BSG, I scheduled a time to… Read More First Impressions: Battlestar Galactica
If you’ve been reading my site regularly, then I’m sure you’ve been wondering if I had dropped off the face of the earth. Sorry for the prolonged absence! I had a very busy few months at work and some other personal commitments, and the blog was one of the things that I just didn’t have… Read More Fall Recap
Today we’re going to take a look at A Feast for Odin, one of Uwe Rosenberg’s latest worker placement classics. While upon first glance this may appear to be a game about Vikings, I’m here to posit an alternative ‘fan theory’. In A Feast for Odin, you’re not playing the role of a Nordic jarl… Read More Fan Theory: A Feast for Odin is Actually a Commentary on Hoarding
I’ve got to tell you about this game I tried recently. It appears to be set in the 19th century and it’s about capitalists seeking to make it rich. You move your playing piece around a board, and can pay money to claim spaces. Those spaces can make you money and help you win the… Read More Review: Great Western Trail
All crew – man your battlestations! There’s a unidentified object inbound, and it’s coming in hot. Deploy countermeasures — begin evasive maneuvers — brace for impact! Captain Sonar is about to enter the BGG Top 100! A bit dramatic perhaps? I’ll give you that. But it’s hard to overstate how fun, fast-paced, and exciting this… Read More Review: Captain Sonar
Sorry for the delay since the last update. Not a lot of movement to report in the past couple of months, but that should change soon with Gen Con right around the corner! I’ve changed this month’s format to show the year-to-date (YTD) change in each game’s rank. I’ve also changed the ‘Hot List’ to… Read More Rankings Update – August!
Today we’re taking a look at one of the oldest games on the BGG Top 100, predating 96 of the other games on the current list. Released back in 1996, Tigris and Euphrates was once ranked #1 overall. Over the years it has dropped to #60, but it has stood the test of time better… Read More Review: Tigris and Euphrates
In today’s review, we take a journey to a time far in the past. A simpler time, when every game did not need to be defined as “a mix of ____ and ____”. Way back when today’s “gateway games” were considered groundbreaking. Join me as we visit the era of Stone Age — the year… Read More Review: Stone Age
A couple of weeks ago, I finished my campaign of Seafall, an epic game of exploration on the high seas for 3-5 players. If you’re not familiar with Seafall or the concept of campaign (or ‘Legacy’) games, it is played over a number of sessions, as players make permanent changes to the game and the… Read More Review: Seafall
The Top of the Table 