Tagged: video
The Others is an asymmetric game of miniatures combat between a team of 1-4 heroes and their enemy: a single player controlling an avatar of sin and its minions. It’s designed by Eric M. Lang and published by CMON Limited…. Read More »
Cinque Terre is a pickup-and-deliver game from Rio Grande Games, designed by Chris Handy. It’s an excellent gateway game that’s simple to learn and easy to play, but offers a greater depth of strategy than first meets the eye. It’s… Read More »
Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft Board Game from Wizards of the Coast has become something of a modern classic in cooperative dungeon-crawling board games since its initial release in 2010. It scratches the dungeon-crawling, dice-chucking, hack-n-slash itch, but leaves a fair… Read More »
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 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 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 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 »
Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game is a semi-cooperative, dice-based action selection game from Plaid Hat Games, designed by Jonathan Gilmour and Isaac Vega. With elements of storytelling, exploration, and survival horror, it’s smooth, refined, and well-rounded, providing a very… Read More »
I’m a huge fan of Spyfall, the social deduction game released by Cryptozoic Entertainment in 2015. When a “spy” has to fit in among the rest of the players who have a critical piece of information, and he or she… Read More »
Not long ago, unconfirmed images of an untitled game bearing the From Software logo spread throughout the internet gaming community. The game in question was rumored to be “Project Beast,” the next entry in the popular Souls series. Today, thanks to the ever-vigilant… Read More »
