Category: BG Review
Feudum is an economic, resource-management, area-control, semi-programmed-action-selection, kingdom-building game for 2-5 players from Odd Bird Games and designer Mark Swanson. It’s currently on Kickstarter (ends December 15, 2016) and has been fully funded. This is a deep and nuanced game… Read More »
Eddie reviews Dogs of War, from Spaghetti Western Games and CMON, designed by Paolo Mori. This worker-placement strategy war game sees 3-5 players competing in 12 battles between 6 noble factions throughout the game, benefitting from each show of support, each… Read More »
Eddie Inzauto reviews CMON’s The World of Smog: On Her Majesty’s Service, designed by Sir Yohan Lemonnier. It’s a 2-4 player action-selection trading game with an abstract feel and unique gear-rotating mechanic. Players are racing to collect their secret combination… Read More »
Eddie reviews the MOBA-inspired, 2-6 player pirate combat game, Rum & Bones, and offers a preview of the updates coming to the franchise in Rum & Bones: Second Tide, which will be shipping starting in January 2017. The game has… Read More »
Eddie Inzauto takes a look at Hunting Sasquatch from Spyglass Games, designed by Sina Hirsch, Jeff Arbough, and Mike Knight. It’s a 2-5 player competitive push-your-luck dice-rolling game in which players compete to gain the most points by the time… Read More »
Eddie takes a look at Dracula’s Feast, a quick and fun 4-8 player hidden-role social deduction game from Jellybean Games, designed by Peter C. Hayward. Dracula’s Feast has met its Kickstarter goal and will be funded on November 11th 2016… Read More »
Eddie Inzauto takes a look at the original superhero deckbuilding game, Emergents: Genesis, by Anthony Conta, Brian David-Marshall, and Matthew Wang of Urban Island Games. A few oversights and imbalances hold this one back, but the progressive card play with… Read More »
Eddie Inzauto reviews Eric M. Lang and Guillotine games’ Blood Rage, published by CMON. This combat-heavy area control game with card drafting, hidden objectives, and various upgrade paths is a special hybrid of Euro and Ameritrash that will have a… Read More »
Eddie Inzauto reviews 51st State: The Complete Master Set, including a detailed rules and gameplay explanation. Designer Ignacy Trzewiczek and Portal Games have done an excellent job with this comprehensive reimplementation of 51st State, New Era, and Winter using some… Read More »
Sky Dynasty is a 2- to 5-player deck-building card game by Robert Miedel currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. The game features simultaneous action selection and multiple phases of play with a sort of blind-bidding/worker-placement combat mechanic with an area control… Read More »
