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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8675693/forest-shuffle-exploration Designer: KoschPublisher: Lookout GamesArtists: Toni Llobet, Judit Piella This expansion was my first experience with Forest Shuffle, as it gave me a way to learn and play the game solo. Forest Shuffle is a combotatstic game focused on playing cards into your tableau “forest” to score as many points as possible.…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8965107/embers Designer: Steven AraminiPublisher: Button ShyArtist: Steven De Waele Embers is a solo, eighteen card game where the player utilizes action selection via action points to move heroes around a campfire to defeat monsters. Each round, every hero around the fire has two action points that can be used in a variety…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8980197/winnie-the-pooh-serious-detective Designers: Aleksei Kuznetsov, Oleg Meleshin, Yury YamshchikovPublisher: CrowD GamesArtists: Julia Chegodaeva, Ekaterina Mamontova, Maya Kurkhuli Let me start by saying that I have very minimal experience with escape room style games, so this one was rather new for me. Truthfully, though, this game is definitely more of a narrative journey than…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/6998174/point-city Designers: Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn StankewichPublishers: AEG, Flatout GamesArtist: Dylan Mangini Point City is a cute, fun, quick board game that’s super easy to teach but still has some interesting decisions and strategic opportunities. Honestly, I’m surprised at how much I enjoy this game considering it’s such a seemingly simple…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/7532921/peninsula Designers: Juma Al-JouJou, Galen GoodwickPublisher: Karma Games As someone originally from Michigan, I had to make the title an ode to one of the most wonderful places in the US (in my opinion). I saw Peninsula show up as an optional add-on game in the pledge manager for Clans of Caledonia,…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8584556/micro-hero-hercules Designer: Léandre ProustPublisher: Grammes EditionArtist: Rémi Leblond You can check out my review of it, but Unstoppable recently convinced me I was a changed person and enjoyed deckbuilders now, despite my usual apprehension with them and general dislike of the system. This game, unfortunately, snapped me back to reality: it’s true,…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/9200097/a-dragons-gift Designer: Scott AlmesPublisher: Button ShyArtist: Manon Mergnat In A Dragon’s Gift, a single player is working to gather resources and craft items to eventually deliver the ultimate gift to a dragon. To do this, players lay and align cards so that paths connect from craftspeople that can build items to locations…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8797686/aquaris Designer: Fernando PrimaPublisher: Titan BoardgamesArtist: Santiago Zanon I’ve been in a bit of a funk recently in terms of print and play roll and write games, so to no fault of the game, I had some lower expectations for this one. Thankfully, my concern was for nothing – this one is…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8306902/spirits-of-christmas Designer: John S. BaileyPublisher: Humble Bard GamesArtist: Emmie Bailey Spirits of Christmas is a nice, pretty small box game about the classic A Christmas Carol story that we know and love. Over three rounds, representing the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future, players use coins and cards to travel around…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/6971334/draft-and-write-records Designer: Bruno MacielPublisher: Inside Up GamesArtist: Pedro A. Alberto Draft and Write Records is exactly what you think it would be: a roll and write style game where cards get drafted to dictate player actions related to music. The goal is to manage the best band possible by creating a top-notch…
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