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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8828621/dicemancy Designer: Eduardo Aguilar LealPublisher: Best With 1 GamesArtist: Cole Munro-Chitty Dicemancy is a solo card-based game where wizards utilize spell combinations in hopes of protecting the city while also defeating enough monsters to win. Over the course of nine or ten scenarios, players experience a multitude of different wizard characters, each…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/9264600/pocket-puffins-lost-in-space Designer: Edward BellPublisher: Red Stache GamesArtist: Parker Simpson Edward graciously provided a review copy of this one, so thank you! It’s definitely been enjoyable to play. Pocket Puffins: Lost in Space is similar to the original (you can find our review of the first installment if you want to read it),…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/9250393/solus-lost-second-edition Designer: Chance HarrisPublisher: Wolf-Boy Entertainment Group LLCArtists: Greg Bahlmann, Ezequiel Di Savino Solus: Lost is a card-based solo only game about surviving space even though your character and ship continually get damaged, and space itself seems to be working furiously against you. It is 100% one of those games where you…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8571655/backstories-the-emerald-wedding-anniversary Designers: Jules Messaud, Anthony PeronePublisher: La Boîte de JeuArtist: Gong Studios You can check out our review, but the first installment (Backstories: Alone Under the Ice) of this game was quite fun, yet this one far surpasses it. It is SO much better! I played through the first one twice and…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8134255/backstories-alone-under-the-ice Designers: Jules Messaud, Anthony PeronePublisher: La Boîte de JeuArtist: Cyrille Bertin Backstories: Alone Under the Ice is a clever and fun little narrative detective/mystery style game that’s similar to a point and click experience on a computer. Over the course of the game, you have changing objectives and use items, clues,…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/5837347/regicide Designers: Paul Abrahams, Luke Badger, Andy RichdalePublisher: Badgers from MarsArtist: Sketchgoblin Regicide is a clever game that can be played with a standard deck of cards. I purchased a special art deck for the game, which I really didn’t need, but it is cool and the art is very well done.…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/5945719/grove-9-card-solitaire-game Designer: Mark TuckPublisher: Side Room GamesArtist: Mark Tuck As the title insinuates, in Grove, you are playing cards to construct a grove of lemon, lime, and orange trees. After shuffling the deck of 18 cards, it gets separated into two 9 card stacks. One deck gets set aside; it will not…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8157876/sfynx Designer: David PurkissPublisher: inPatienceArtist: Olivier Derouetteau Sfynx is a really neat, abstract, cooperative puzzle game that’s focused on organizing symbols in a grid to match specific patterns. Each game consists of a 5×5 grid of symbol tiles, all unique, a round tracking board, riddle cards which display the current required patterns…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/9027329/a-carnivore-did-it Designers: Daumilas Ardickas, Urtis ŠulinskasPublisher: Horrible GuildArtist: Cecilia Lonnie While I enjoyed my time with this game, it’s honestly not really a game. I can see how it can be played as a game with multiple players, but its solo/cooperative version is 100% puzzle. There are other “games” I can think…
