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I’ve always said that the board game space seriously lacks food related games, but all I had to do was type in “Food” and “Board Games” into Google to be proven very, very wrong. So I’ve remade my previous statement as follows: “The board game space lacks food related games that I want to play.” Enter Food for Thought, a much deeper game than your average food related game (which tends to be very card based, by the way). While…

When it comes to campaign games, or even standalone experiences with involved stories, I’m basically going to love them. That said, I’ve played a fair number of games that have a pretty good story, but the production quality is subpar at best, making the entire experience so much less enjoyable. If you’ve ever had the chance to play games coming from Van Ryder Games or Lucky Duck Games, you know the quality is always superb. With almost no knowledge of…

When Star Wars Shatterpoint first launched my father-in-law and I were all into it. Asmodee Canada and Atomic Mass sent us box after box, and we reviewed them all and got them all painted. As time has gone by, we’ve gotten pretty busy on the website, which is a good problem to have. We are working with more publishers and designers than ever, so we cannot always cover everything. So for about 9 months, we took a break from Star…

While there is a nice, deluxe version of Potions of Azerland with nice little wooden components, we had a chance to check out the retail release at GenCon 2025, and even went home with a copy thanks to Lucky Duck Games! It was the first title I dove headfirst into when I got home, and the presentation didn’t disappoint. It’s not all good though, as the mixture of character cards between fantasy characters and real life people – Kickstarter reward,…

Unconscious Minds was a game I’ve been really interested in since it was released, and I thought that GenCon 2025 was going to be my chance to play it in the GenCon Game’s Library. Unfortunately it wasn’t available there for play, but Lucky Duck Games was nice enough to send me home with a copy for review. So of course, it was one of the first games I had to unboxed! The production of Unconscious Minds is a mixed bag…

I find kids games come in two varieties: those that create fantastic looking games with a production that helps kids create a story, while others look to create the cheapest product possible (and I say that as a positive accessibility thing, not a negative). Ravensburger, in my opinion, has often opted for the cheaper production, cheaper price of entry strategy, but with The Sandcastles of Burgundy, they have taken a different approach. What’s most impressive to me here is the…

Depending on when you read this article, you might have already read about how much we loved the components in Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall. If you haven’t, check that article out as well. One thing I can say about Incredible Dream Studios is that no matter what game they release – whether it’s one of the outstanding Kinfire titles, or something less flashy like A Gentle Rain – the components are going to be amazing, whether you get their Upgrade…

When I review games, we always like to do a separate components overview and impressions article prior to writing our full review. Components in a game are pretty important in my opinion, and can impact your enjoyment of a game. When publishers – like Incredible Dream Studios who sent this over – also send us the upgrade kit, we like to talk about that as well. So let’s hop into this one: is the high price tag attached to Kinfire…

When I knew that Vantage was coming to the office for review, I had a plan to do a first impressions article right away after completing my first game. Vantage is not a legacy or campaign game – exploring this planet is a one off that should take 2-4 hours, and while you will have more knowledge for future games, you will start something brand new the next time you table the experience. Our game of vantage for two players…

A few months ago, Stonemaier Games reached out to us and let us know we could purchase anything on their store up to $75 USD to take a look at, so we took advantage of that and purchased…coins. We have had the immense pleasure of reviewing every single Stonemaier Game ever released, and so when we were provided this opportunity, we went hard down the well of metal coins, getting coins for all sorts of games like Scythe and Expeditions,…