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Railroad Tiles is Horrible Guild’s follow-up to the very popular Railroad Ink, and while you won’t be rolling dice and drawing routes onto a dry erase board, you will be connecting roads, rails and more as you try to create the best network. Railroad Tiles is an arguably much better game than Railroad Ink, and that experience is only made better by a litany of expansions that are sure to excite hardcore players. I originally backed the Kickstarter campaign for…

For a long time now I’ve balanced my free time between playing video games and playing board games. When I first got married, the amount of time I played video games outpaced my time playing board games 4 or 5 to 1. That’s balanced out over the past decade, and now I find myself playing as many hours of board games as video games, and I’m seeing a lot of connections. I’ve jumped back into Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin…

We have been getting a ton of Star Wars games over the past year, and I’m here for it. I love Star Wars, and while I’m always worried we are bound to get a really bad game with a great IP, that doesn’t seem to have happened yet. Star Wars: Super Teams looked to be that game, a half backed experience banking on success because of its IP. That couldn’t be further from the truth. While Star Wars: Super Teams…

Memoire 44 is an incredibly popular title amongst a certain age of gamers, and while the gameplay is fantastic, the World War theme has become a bit lost on newer generations of gamers. But what if that system could be reworked into something more popular, say Star Wars? Fantasy Flight Games made this happen, so let’s take a look at Battle of Hoth and see if the gameplay matches the IP! I’ve said it before and I will say it…

One of the toughest aspects of reviewing board games is that so many come through the office each week. Often we have to pass on some, and others are intriguing enough to push down the road. Please Don’t Burn My Village is one of those games, one that although I didn’t get to it after GenCon when my copy arrived, I knew I wanted to. So is this game as intriguing as I thought it would be? Let’s check it…

When I saw that the artist and designer of Flamecraft had partnered again on another title, this time with The OP, I was pretty excited. Not only did the gameplay of Tea Witches look phenomenal, but the components looked great as well!  There is a lot in the box when you first get Tea Witches to the table, and the beautiful artwork definitely pops right away. Whether it’s the various witches on the cards, the various shops you’ll be visiting,…

When The OP sent over Fountains, it wasn’t actually the game in the box I was most excited about: that was Tea Witches. But when speaking with the media representative for The OP, they assured me that Fountains was a game tile laying fans were going to love because it takes traditional tile laying and makes it…vertical? While I wasn’t sure what was meant by that, I do love a solid tile laying game. So while Tea Witches was calling…

Ink was definitely a frustrating game to learn as I don’t feel the rulebook was as good as it could be, but once we had our first game under our belts, the simplicity of the experience was really attractive. Simplicity doesn’t mean boring, though, and there is a good amount of strategy here to sink your teeth into. Is Ink a game that your group might attach to? Let’s take a look! In Ink, players will have 24 ink bottles…

I’ve heard nothing but good things about Saltfjord and it is one of my most anticipated games of 2025. I’ve also heard the game lacks a nice and cohesive look, and after spending about an hour punching tiles and sorting pieces, I agree with that sentiment very much. While the components are top notch all around, the overall aesthetic of the game is very…dark? I don’t want to harp on the look of the game too much, only because I’ve…

While Splendor Kids does break one of my big no-no’s when it comes to production, I can’t help but be impressed with what Space Cowboys have done with this kid-friendly title. Far too often, companies think that since a game is for kids, the quality of the product can be lesser; that is never, and should never, be the case. Splendor Kids is almost the perfect production, regardless of the audience for the game. Let’s take a look at what…