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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8515455/pergola Designers: Michał Gołąb Gołębiowski, Przemek WojtkowiakPublisher: Rebel StudioArtist: Karolina Kijak Pergola is a super chill game about creating a beautiful garden. This game is a quintessential point salad design that offers many opportunities and avenues for scoring points. The solo game plays similarly to a multiplayer game but with a way…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8356842/spooktacular Designer: D. Brad Talton, Jr.Publisher: Level 99 GamesArtist: Javier Roa González Now, I love me some spooky season games, so when I saw this, I was immediately intrigued. While it’s not perfect, especially in terms of solo, I had a lot of fun with it! Spooktactular is a card-based action selection…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8574369/ofrenda Designers: Orlando Sá, André SantosPublisher: Osprey GamesArtist: Álex Herrerías Ofrenda is a thematic yet abstract card-based game where players are trying to fill in their ofrenda with family members in the perfect configuration. Each turn, players draft a portrait card that they then add to their ofrenda. Drafting follows pretty standard…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8514367/point-galaxy Designers: Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn StankewichPublisher: Flatout Games, AEGArtist: Dylan Mangini Here are a few key things to note about this game, especially in relation to the other two Point games (Salad and City): 1) This game plays more similarly to City than Salad but obviously has a drastically different…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8967591/adamastor Designer: Orlando SáPublisher: LudonovaArtist: Jorge Tabanera Redondo Adamastor is a hand management and action selection game where the player is trying to traverse the sea and reach an island. Along the way, they can gain skills or (the more likely option) they’ll have mutiny, disease, or some other problem that causes…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/7880987/tenby Designer: Benjie TalbottPublisher: Cosy Cub GamesArtist: Benjie Talbott Tenby is a tableau building game focused on creating streets in the beautiful city of Tenby. Each round, players draft cards to add to their streets, gain citizens for their city, and even gain life ring tokens to help them throughout the game.…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8857307/wispwood Designer: Reed AmbrosePublisher: CGEArtist: Štěpán Drašťák Wispwood is a colorful and unique tile laying game that takes place over the course of three rounds. Each round, players build a grid of tiles in front of them by drafting tiles from a main board in hopes of achieving specific scoring conditions for…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/9012802/map-masters Designers: Ian Sebastian Bach, Cédrick CaumontPublisher: Captain GamesArtist: Adrien Journel You can judge me all you want but I literally ADORE this game, and I think it’s very underrated! Granted, I don’t know how it plays cooperatively with others or competitively, but it was a blast to play solo. At the…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8572999/daydream Designers: Anthony Perone, Benoit TurpinPublisher: Disto StudioArtist: Memé Candia Daydream is the quintessential “cozy” board game. The theme is lighthearted, the artwork is lovely and chill, and the overall gameplay is more focused on enjoying the puzzle rather than being tense. For something that puts itself in the same genre/category as…
