For me, though, Kanal is another of those games I’ll return to again and again when I have an hour to myself and want to get away from the screen. A delicious solo puzzle ice cream with Rosenberg ripples throughout.
Once you have more than four people sitting at the table, that’s when Between Two Castles has its ‘hold my beer’ moment.
The combination of trying to do well in the current round whilst setting things up for the next round is at the heart of Jackpot. And you know what? It’s tricky. It’s really tricky.
Mars Expedition: SOL43 pits you as someone in the combined roles of geologist, navigator, cryptologist, physicist and many more besides, exploring our red neighbour, trying to unlock its secrets.
I’ve introduced Overparked to three separate groups since I bought it at UKGE, and it’s been a hit with each and every person who’s played it.
Seemingly coming from out of nowhere, Lookout Games blindsided us with Great Western Trail: El Paso, a new, smaller, more accessible version of the game.
The aim of the game is to fill the different rooms aboard your liner as efficiently as possible, using one of my favourite mechanisms in all of gaming, the humble mancala. With plenty of tactical space to play in, Come Sail Away is excellent. Come aboard, and let me tell you why.
While Eternal Decks may not be a hand-crafted game you bought from some guy in a trenchcoat in a back alley in Shibuya, it still feels like that not-quite-so-well-hidden gem at the moment
A love letter to the series, in the form of a lavish, rewarding masterpiece of game design, and I cannot wait to play it again. I honestly can’t. I want to dig around in the fantasy sandbox and see what happens next. Just remember what I’ve told you here today. Forewarned is forearmed, adventurer.
Tokaido is still Tokaido. It was a great, light game thirteen years ago, and it’s still a great, light game.
