Board Games Reviews

Tabriz has been a game on my radar for a long time, but after checking it out at GenCon 2025, I knew it was a game I needed to purchase sooner rather than later. The game looks phenomenal, and I love the cover art a lot. But can this game about a carpet maker in a Persian Market hit the right notes? I think the components says it will! Inserts are king, and Tabriz comes with one. That’s enough to…

I have never been a big fan of area control games, but when Wroth was released I kept hearing that it was a great experience, including for those who dislike area control games. After a few games of Wroth, I’ve come to realize why that’s true. Not only is it a tight 60 minute experience, but playing as the various factions is a lot of fun, even when you come up just short! In Wroth, up to four players will…

Splendor Kids is one of the first games released in the asmodee Kids lineup of titles, and they set the bar really high with this experience. The components are obviously fantastic, as we discussed, but the way the game is built from the ground up with kids in mind is fantastic. One thing I never noticed when doing my components overview was the purpose of the stickers on the resource tray. My assumption at the time was that these stickers…

Our good friends at Ravensburger sent over a booster box of Fabled, the latest release in the Disney Lorcana franchise. I was super excited for this release simply because it featured a good number of cards from the Goofy Movie. As one of my favourite movies of all time, having Petey, Powerline, Max and more was an exciting prospect. By the time I opened up all 24 packs, I think I had almost all the Goofy Movie cards. But something…

I’ve been having a lot of fun playing Railroad Tiles with friends and family, and it’s probably one of my favourite games right now. Not only is it easy to setup and play, but it’s quite easy to teach as well, especially for those who have played the predecessor to this, Railroad Ink. I thought Horrible Guild was being a bit ambitious when they launched seven expansions alongside the base game for their Kickstarter campaign, but so far these expansions…

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…

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 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…