Board Games Reviews

Each and every Christmas, my wife likes to get me a board game to play, whether that’s a small game that will fit in my stocking, or a slightly larger game that becomes a full gift under the tree. The game is never massive, but it’s always nice for her to think about my favourite hobby year-in and year-out. This year, she picked up a game I had never heard of called Little Factory. Although this game isn’t doing anything…

Dorfromantik is one of those games that I could play almost anytime, but I find it especially enjoyable during the holidays. It is such a relaxing experience, and easy to teach almost anyone. With a plate of snacks over Christmas, we dove back into Dorfromantik head first, and we had a blast. Value in board games can often be hard to determine. At what point is a board game a good deal? We just finished game number 14 of Dorfromantik…

I always enjoy an easy to learn, easy to play roll and write experience, and First-Class Letters offers that kind of experience. While all you’ll get in the box is a bad of papers, some pencils, and 4 die, the experience here is still rather unique, while remaining approachable for anyone with the ability to write words and alphabetize things. In First-Class Letters, one player will roll three lettered dice, and those letters will be put in specific boxes on…

Despite Moonrollers only arriving last week, I’ve already played it a ton thanks to it being an easy to table experience with light rules and light gameplay. We talked about the components of Moonrollers, but just because a game looks great, doesn’t make it great. Would an IV Studio game that isn’t really all that deep still be successful? Can these guys create an easy to learn, easy to play experience? Although this isn’t the first lighter title from IV…

Enthrone wasn’t a game I thought I would like that much, but the fantastic production made me want to give it a go as soon as possible. The production is out of this world good, but does the gameplay hold up? Let’s take a look! There are eight different characters in the game, and to setup each player is dealt three cards (characters) leaving two left over that no player will get to see. From the three cards you are…

I’m not always a fan of board games getting expansions. That isn’t because they aren’t fun, it’s just that our group gets the same game tabled so little, does owning and expansion even worth it? What I do love are expansions that easily fold into the base game, provide only a little more time to teach, and make the experience so much better. We loved In the Footsteps of Darwin, and the Correspondence expansion just makes it better. The expansion…

As much as I like big and grandiose board game experiences, having a few filler games with killer strategy is always important too. So often we finish a large board game and have 45 minutes left in our game night, and filling those moments and getting the most out of everyone being in the same room can be tough. Enter In the Footsteps of Darwin, a fantastic tile laying game where players look for animals, score points, and see who…

Far to often, board games that we may classify as simpler experiences often get sub-par productions. I understand why – I think the less a game is for hardcore gamers, the more likely the production quality doesn’t matter as much. In the Footsteps of Darwin is a fairly simple board game experience, but the design team has done a fantastic job making this feel like a very premium experience. Even my kids were impressed by the quality of this product.…

You know from previous posts we’ve made two things: Boxking Gaming did send us a table for review and to promote our various board game articles, and we love the table. There aren’t a ton of affordable board game tables out there, but Project Ironside is one of them, and we have been thrilled to own it. Now that we are six months into ownership, do we still love the table? Let’s take a look. There are things we really…

One of my most anticipated games of 2025 was The Hobbit: There and Back Again, a roll and write adventure that takes players through various moments of J.R.R. Tolkien’s popular novel, The Hobbit. The game does an excellent job showcasing key moments of the book in board game form, which I think is actually a tougher task than many might think. What started out as a negative experience quickly became something positive for me, and while I’m not 100% positive…