Posts By Adam

We’ve had the the privilege of working with many board game publishers over the years on reviews; for many of these publishers, I was playing their games for the first time when review copies arrived at our office, but one specific publisher was in our homes long before we had a review relationship with them. To that end, I thought it would be fitting to rank my favourite Stonemaier Games titles – I have had the privilege of playing them…

Through the Desert is a game I’ve wanted to play for a good long while now, and thanks to our friends at AllPlay, we had the chance to do that in December! We already waxed poetic about the game’s components, but good components don’t mean a good game! Did I enjoy Through the Desert as much as I thought I would? Let’s take a look. There feels like a ton of game in this little box, but once you get…

Before I get to deep into this article, I want to make something abundantly clear – I love when Nintendo releases new Joy-Con controllers, and will definitely be picking these up when they launch. I play a lot of games docked with the Joy-Con 2 controllers freely in my hands, so I will get to enjoy the new light purple and light green colours. What I wonder, though, is how many people play games like me? The new colours announced…

The Lord of the Rings: Adventure to Mount Doom is much more about the journey you are on and making it thematically relevant than it is on providing deep strategy. In a cooperative, family weight Lord of the Rings experience, I think that is more than OK. You’ll be guiding your group of adventurers all the way from Rivendell to Mordor to destroy the one ring, avoiding the Nazgul and the Uruk-Hai along the way. Card will be played, dice…

After a few shipping snafus in October, we finally got our hands on a review copy of the Cretaceous Rails expansion, Cretaceous Skies. If you’ve read our review of Cretaceous Rails, you know how much we loved the experience, and called it one of our favourite games of 2025. Another expansion is coming for Cretaceous Rails called Cretaceous Seas, which you can check out and still pledge here! I was actually lukewarm on Cretaceous Skies the first few times I…

Nintendo has just released a brand new overview trailer for Mario Tennis Fever, offering fans their most detailed look yet at the upcoming Mushroom Kingdom sports title. The game, which launches exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2 on February 12, 2026, mixes the series’ trademark arcade energy with a slew of new mechanics and surprises designed to shake up how you think about virtual tennis. You can check out the trailer below! Longtime fans will recognize ...

Negotiation style games is generally a genre I steer clear of, but when I first played Moonrakers I decided I needed to rethink that opinion. I really enjoyed completing contracts with the help of others around the table, and enjoyed negotiating rewards as a part of that experience. IV Studio has another game in this universe – Brink – which uses trading, a type of negotiation in my books. That said, it melds that with another mechanic I really ...

The ideas and strategies behind Fromage aren’t anything crazy or difficult, but the unique cheese piece placement and how those locations activate and pieces are returned to you is unique and interesting. Fromage isn’t much different than other worker placement games, but the recalling workers mechanic is enough to make this one worth keeping in your collection. On the surface, Fromage is a charming Euro-style game about making cheese in various regions ...

I love a really good adventure board game, and have played a ton over the years. I’ve had a blast with Descent: Legends of the Dark and Betrayers War, The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth, Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin, and of course, The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era. The one thing that makes The Elder Scrolls different form the other games is that each game is broken down into very clear sessions ranging from…

I was recently watching The Dice Tower review for Flamecraft Duals and one thing struck me as I watched: how much does a solid production matter? Both reviewers praised the games production, but neither of them particularly enjoyed the experience, with one score coming in at a 4/10 and the other a 6.5/10. In this situation, despite a great production, there wasn’t enough game there for this group to rate it any higher than mediocre / just ok. If ...

Snake Charmers is a hidden role game I can get behind. I absolutely suck at bluffing, so games like Coup are not good for me when I’m stuck with a specific role. In Snake Charmers, though, your role can change and I absolutely love how that works. There are always two groups of people: snakes and others. In the middle of the table are numbered cards from 1-6 and they are all on their “night” side. The deck that players…

Long before I was reviewing board games I had the chance to play Wild Serengeti from Bad Comet Games. This game made me fall in love with animal themed games, and we even wrote about it in our top 5 animal themed game article a few years back. Wild Serengeti is definitely a bit longer than than I would like, but the turn to turn moments are really strong. In Wild Serengeti, players are attempting to maneuver animals into positions…

My wife and I are heading back to Florida for a quick trip on the Disney Wish and a day at Epcot, one of Disney’s most technologically impressive parks. We will have reviews of our time on the Disney Wish for sure, but it’s our time at Epcot that I am most excited about. As we head back to Florida on another adventure, let’s take a look at the technical aspects of what Epcot has to offer visitors, with information…

Tokaido Duo takes the peaceful, laid-back vibe of the original Tokaido and turns it into a focused, clever game designed specifically for two players. If you’re familiar with the original, this isn’t just a “smaller” version of that game—it’s its own thing, built from the ground up to work best as a head-to-head experience.   Instead of each player controlling a single traveler, both players share control of three different characters, each moving along ...

I’ve been playing board games for a long time now, but I can still remember the first games I played when I first got into the hobby. In this article I’ll rank those games and talk about what I like about them still, or reasons I don’t play them anymore! Let’s get started! Catan – Catan is a game I just don’t play anymore, and almost nothing is going to get me to play them unless there is a group…