Board Games Reviews

The Binding of Isaac is an immensely popular video game franchise, and when the game was adapted into a card game many years ago, it was again quite popular. With the release of promo cards and expansions, the game has evolved from its early state, and now all of that content is available in a beautiful collectors edition case, with so much room for more stuff! Before we dive into the actual collectors edition, it’s worth taking a high level…

So here we are, near the end of #hamletweek and ready to dump our thoughts of the game onto the page for you to read. This won’t be a how-to-play – we’ve always felt that for more complex games like Hamlet, you are better off watching a how-to-play on YouTube rather than reading about it here! But what do we think of how the game works? Let’s take a peak. The concept behind Hamlet is really good – you are…

One of the downsides of buying a tabletop war game like Star Wars: Shatterpoint is that you never can play it the same day you get it. Atomic Mass Games and Asmodee Canada were nice enough to send over Star Wars: Shatterpoint Core Box about 10 days ago, and after some hard work, we finally got all the miniatures and terrain painted and where ready to go. It was great that the day we began playing Shatterpoint was the day…

Ever wonder what a world without books and words would be like? No, me neither, and hopefully I never will have to! Illiterati is a board game of making words, and there are a group of individuals – the Illeterati – who want to stop the forming of words and the making of books! So, with the help of friends, you will use tiles to make words, bind books, and save literacy around the world. It’s a silly premise, sure,…

Games that give me a sense of zen are pretty great, and that is what I expected as I unboxed The One Hundred Torii and got it setup on the table. When you first get the game out of the box, there might seem like a ton is going on. You have small tokens, larger tokens, people tokens, people banners, and so much more. The game was overwhelming to setup, but was the gameplay any good? Let’s dive into The…

When you are a fan of adventure games, small boxes, and nordic stories, you might find a game like Vinland Caraventura very enjoyable. I love cooperative story based games, and have been playing them more and more over the past little while (check out our review of Adventures of Robin Hood for another narrative adventure). There are many Caraventura games available right now, so pick which one you think you might enjoy. Thanks to Kosmos, though, we are looking at…

We’ve been playing a ton of Imperial Settlers lately, the miniatures board game set in the Star Wars universe. We’ve done a lot with both the core box and the Return to Hoth expansion, but lately we’ve also been diving into the Jabba’s Realm expansion. With a ton of new miniatures and some great terrain pieces, let’s take a peak at this expansion, and let you know whether or not it’s worth picking up! As we said in our Return…

Forges of Ravenshire available now on Kickstarter  will have you and friends competing with each other to fire up your forges and produce the best items in all the land. Through upgrades and contracts, players will earn gain resources, make products, and earn points. With some dice placement and little manipulation, does the game work as well as you might like? Let’s take a look. I will not be doing an in depth How to Play for this game, but…

We are always looking for games to play with our 9 year old son Lochlan. He is pretty good at learning and tackling games that are above his age range, but he also really loves to play things that are cooperative. When I saw that Kosmos had a new expansion for The Adventures of Robin Hood, I decided I really wanted to review the original. Lochlan loves to read, and loves narrative adventures, so The Adventures of Robin Hood seemed…

Whenever you review an expansion, it’s always hard to balance explaining the base game, plus all the new content. Thankfully, we’ve reviewed Scythe in the past  so you can head on over there and check our our opinion. The other tough thing about reviewing expansions is that for many games lately, these expansions have been campaign based, meant to be played over numerous rounds. Within each round, new content gets unlocked that players aren’t expecting. I think you can see…