Category: Gaming
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BEER AND BREAD // REVIEW
Beer and Bread from designer Scott Almes, is a 2 player euro game with multi-use cards, resource management, and tight drafting. Collect resources from your shared fields during the harvest to bake and brew valuable recipes. After six seasons, the player who produced the best of both will be the victor!
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DISNEY LORCANA: THE FIRST CHAPTER // REVIEW
Disney Lorcana is a trading card game featuring Disney characters and unique gameplay. Use cards as Magical Ink or play them to your area to quest for Lore. Lorcana features familiar card-battler mechanics with characters Challenging and Defending, but adds a unique Quest option that earns you Lore points. The first player to gather 20…
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FOREST SHUFFLE // REVIEW
Forest Shuffle is a unique tableau building card game with fast turns and adorable art. Plant trees in your forest to support a variety of wildlife and maximise your score through the synergies of your flora and fauna. Turns are simple: play 1 card or draw 2 cards. To play cards, you must discard cards…
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EARTH // REVIEW
Earth from designer Maxime Tardif and published by Inside Up Games is a deeply strategic tableau builder for 1 to 5 players with simple rules. Games take between 45-90 minutes thanks to a robust action selection mechanic and simultaneous turns. Each games of Earth begins with unique common goals and achievements drafted from dozens of…
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IMPERIAL MINERS // REVIEW
Imperial Miners is an engine-building card game for 1-5 players from designer Tim Armstrong (Arcana Rising, Orbis) and published by Portal Games. Games take about 30 minutes, with any player count, thanks to simultaneous play. Use a mix of six factions from the Imperial Settlers universe to create synergistic combos and big turns full of…
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TERRAFORMING MARS: ARES EXPEDITION // FIRST LOOK REVIEW
Ares Expedition has been out for a few months already, but it took us a while to get our Kickstarter copies… and then it took me a while to get this video edited… but I wanted to talk about it anyways! I did a 2 player review on The Daily Shed, so this is really…
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I MADE A GAME AND YOU CAN PLAY IT RIGHT NOW
I’ve been designing board games quite a bit lately and I’m having a blast. One of them is Narrow Gauge: Appalachia – a two player game about building railways in the Appalachian Mountains during the age of steam. This game was a blast to develop and test, and I’ve decided that I need more people…
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MARIO GOLF SUPER RUSH – WORTH IT?
I got super excited for the release of Mario Golf Super Rush. I’ve always enjoyed golfing games. They are relaxing and challenging at the same time. A bunch of online friends hyped it up and we expected to play online games fairly regularly… then the early reviews came out and it got dinged for being…
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IRISH GUAGE // FIRST LOOK REVIEW
Whoa. Two new videos 5 days apart!? I finally got to play Irish Gauge. It’s been on my shelf of shame for a long while. Game night started back up recently, and this was the first thing I grabbed to take. I love train games. I love Capstone Games. I love Ian O’Toole’s artwork. Seems…