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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/7810232/flowers Designer: Paul-Henri ArgiotPublishers: Actarus Editions, HUCH!Artist: Julie Gruet FLOWERS is a quick, chill, relaxing, puzzly game where players work to create a tableau of flower cards to score as many points as possible. While the game is super easy and straightforward to learn, the design is brilliantly thinky. To set up,…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/6831437/fish-n-flip Designer: Kevin LuhnPublisher: HelvetiqArtist: Dominik Wendland For those that have never lived a full life, this review is named after Free Willy’s theme song. 😉 Fish ‘n’ Flip is a cute, ecologically minded, card movement and action selection game. There’s a spatial puzzle aspect as well, since the cards are laid…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8453037/volatile-vintage Designer: Zach SullivanPublisher: Grazing Bear GamesArtist: Diego Sanchez Volatile Vintage is a print-and-play light engine builder where you are working to produce the most wine barrels while also running your vineyard and fending off mob attacks. Besides the player sheet, all you need is a writing utensil and a standard deck…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8402314/tir-na-nog Designers: Isaac Shalev and Jason SlingerlandPublisher: Grand Gamers GuildArtists: Marlies Barends and Brigette Indelicato Tir na nÓg is a competitive game focused on hand management, set collection, and tableau building. There are five rounds, and at the start of each round, a specific layout of cards is created (dependent on player…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8482775/chateau-gardens Designer: Zach SullivanPublisher: Grazing Bear GamesArtist: Diego Sanchez I’m just going to start by saying this may be one of the best blank and write experiences I’ve ever had. The game design (can only speak for the solo mode) is superb; mechanically, the game is simple and easy to understand, but…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8537755/doom-pilgrim-pocket Designer: Waclaw TraierPublisher: War Claw GamesArtist: Waclaw Traier I’ve never played the original Doom Pilgrim, but from my understanding, this is a smaller version of that game; it is all contained in a tin that could fit in your pocket. Before we get into it, I do want to say I…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8168180/a-nice-cuppa Designer: Scott AlmesPublisher: Button ShyArtist: Andrea Ivetic Vicai I’m a Scott Almes fan, and I also like solo Button Shy games (at least most of the ones I’ve played), so I was already intrigued by this game, but once I saw the theme, I was sold! I love tea, so why…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8091469/the-sleeping-giant Designer and Artist: Marco SalogniPublisher: Web Published The Sleeping Giant is a double-sided puzzle maze where you also have to fight monsters! You get to choose your own path and explore the giant robot and all it has to offer. To play, all you need is the sheet, three six-sided dice,…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8305438/dorfromantik-sakura Designers: Michael Palm, Lukas ZachPublisher: Pegasus SpieleArtist: Paul Riebe While I haven’t reviewed it yet, the original Dorfromantik was in my top five solo games for quite some time, so when I saw a new version was being released, I preordered it immediately! I’ll get into more specifics, but while Dorfromantik:…
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Image taken from https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8077548/reforest-plants-of-the-pacific-northwest-coast Designer: Sébastien Bernier-WongPublisher: Firestarter GamesArtist: Janine van Fram If you read nothing else, know this: Reforest deserves a chef’s kiss 👌, and this review doesn’t do the game enough justice. In Reforest, you are growing a forest ecosystem by “arranging and evolving a synergistic collection of plant cards” (as the rule…