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Apiary Unboxing and Components Review

Apiary is one of the more interesting titles to come from Stonemaier Games in my opinion. All Stonemaier products are fantastic, but something about Apiary had me really excited to get it out of the box the second it arrived. Let’s take a look at what comes in the box! There is a bit of punching required before your first game, but the pieces punch really easily and also have fantastic places for storage in the awesome insert included in…

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The “Peak” of 2-Player Gaming? A Look at Maul Peak

Maul Peak is giving me video games vibes, and I’m not sure why. It might be the concept of taking down a big monster, who knows. What I do know, however, is that I’m terrible at the game, but that doesn’t stop me from really enjoying it each time it comes to the table. As a follow-up to Shulk Hollow (and they can be combined) it’s doing a lot of interesting and different things to make a second journey down…

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Lord of the Rings: The Card Game Replicates an Adventure Well

Recently, Fantasy Flight Game sent over two of their Living Card Games (LCGs), Marvel Champions and Lord of the Rings: The Card Game. While both fit into that LCG space, they are both very different experiences. We have already written about Marvel Champions in our first impressions article here , but I wanted to get my first impressions of Lord of the Rings up as quickly as possible. For many, myself included, you might assume that most Living Card Games…

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Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game – Great Game, Terrible Rule Book

It’s not often I dip my toes into a really heavy euro style game, but as a lifetime Zoo Tycoon fan, I didn’t feel like I could pass up on this board game version. GamesReviews purchased this copy for me via the Kickstarter campaign, and it was recently delivered to my doorstep. After a quick 2-Player game, I thought I’d push some of my first impressions out to you, so let’s get going! So Much to Understand Listen, this is…

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Marvel Champions is an Easy to Understand, Hard to Master Living Card Game

When it comes to card games, I’m very familiar with those that come in a box with instructions (ala Dominion) and those that come in secret packs (ala Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, Disney Lorcana). I am very much not familiar with Living Card Games, where the cards are all predetermined in each box, but the decks you create can be varied and of your own personal desire. My father-in-law and I took Marvel Champions for a spin last night for…

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Arcane Wonders: The King of Simplistic, Deep Experiences?

As a longtime fan of board games, it was shocking to me that I’d never played something from Arcane Wonders. My eyes were opened to all the fantastic games they have on offer at GenCon 2023, and over the past few weeks I’ve been making my way through their catalogue? Here are my two favourite titles from Arcane Wonder as of writing! Neotopia I love an abstract tile laying game, and while Neotopia attempts to get you invested in building…

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Affordable Board Game Table Hitting Backers Soon – Project Ironwood Update

The words affordable and board game table are likely things you never expected to be in the same sentence. Even if you wanted one of the impressive Game Toppers for your standard table, you were still going to spend over 1000 dollars for a 3×5 table. Most tables today are in the range of 2000-3000 dollars, and that’s before you pay to ship a product weighing hundreds of pounds. Enter Project Ironwood, a project we have written about many times…

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A Second Chapter of Descent – Is Betrayer’s War Worth It?

If you have had the pleasure of playing Descent: Legends of the Dark, then you know that to complete the entire campaign is going to take 40 – 50 hours of your time, which is a huge chunk. In our review of that game , we praised it for great components and fantastic storytelling. After we finished our last game and crossed over the 45 hour mark, we were pretty happy with our experience. But was it worth diving into…

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Age of Wonders: Planetfall Unboxing and Components Review

Arcane Wonders seems to have this unique ability to not only create fantastic games with deep strategic thoughts required, but also games that are easy to teach and minimalistic in design. With only a deck of cards, a handful of wooden pieces, and some player boards, Age of Wonders: Planetfall appears to be yet another easy to understand, hard to master game from Arcane Wonders, and I cannot wait to get this one onto the table to play. As we…

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Marvel Crisis Protocol Brings in New Players with a New Core Set

Marvel Crisis Protocol is years into development, with tons of expansions being released after the original core set was launched. In October, Atomic Mass Games re-released the original core set with new sculpts for minis, new command cards, new leadership abilities, and more. This is great for bringing new players into the game, but by changing what was included in the box (although it mimics the original) allows longtime players to get new content as well. I think right away,…

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