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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…
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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…
