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Fromage Board Game Review

  • Post published:12 October 2025
  • Reading time:4 mins read

Fromage is a medium-light euro game about cheese making, featuring unique mechanics and quick gameplay. The main board is divided into four quadrants, and everyone plays in their own quadrant…

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Read more about the article Finspan Review: A Lighter Wingspan?

Finspan Review: A Lighter Wingspan?

  • Post published:9 July 2025
  • Reading time:4 mins read

Finspan is the newest addition to the Wingspan line. With similar ideas to Wingspan, Finspan is focused on fish. Players play fish cards with various powers and activate them to…

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Read more about the article Galactic Cruise Board Game Review

Galactic Cruise Board Game Review

  • Post published:3 June 2025
  • Reading time:7 mins read

Galactic Cruise is a crunchy euro game for 1-4 players. It combines worker placement, resource management, and launching space cruises to compete for the most victory points. Gameplay The worker…

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Read more about the article SETI Board Game Review

SETI Board Game Review

  • Post published:24 May 2025
  • Reading time:6 mins read

SETI is a crunchy eurogame for one to four players. In this game, you’ll search for extraterrestrial life, uncover their traces, discover and interact with them to compete for victory…

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Read more about the article Laserox SETI Organizer Review

Laserox SETI Organizer Review

  • Post published:17 April 2025
  • Reading time:3 mins read

The number of popular big and complex board games has grown over the years. This usually means games come with many components, often stored in plastic baggies, making setup and…

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Read more about the article Underwater Cities and New Discoveries Expansion Review

Underwater Cities and New Discoveries Expansion Review

  • Post published:13 April 2025
  • Reading time:9 mins read

Underwater Cities is a worker placement and engine-building game for one to four players. In this game, you gradually build underwater domes and production buildings that generate resources, which can…

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Read more about the article Hoplomachus: Victorum and Pandora’s Ruin Expansion Review

Hoplomachus: Victorum and Pandora’s Ruin Expansion Review

  • Post published:26 March 2025
  • Reading time:16 mins read

Hoplomachus: Victorum is a solo campaign packed with epic, tactical combats, offering tons of variety and meaningful choices. In this game, you travel across a map, participate in events, and…

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Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan Review

  • Post published:8 March 2025
  • Reading time:4 mins read

Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan is a dice-placement game for 2–4 players where you traverse the map, build trading posts, increase your income, and fulfill contracts…

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Are you a fan of Railroad Ink? Have you seen Railr Are you a fan of Railroad Ink? Have you seen Railroad Tiles, the new game in the Railroad series?Railroad Tiles is a tile-laying game for 1 to 4 players. In this game, you take turns drafting tiles and placing them in your tableau to build highways, railroads, and cities and score points by placing meeples on these tiles.If you’re familiar with Railroad Ink, Railroad Tiles will feel somewhat familiar. However, it takes longer to play, has a bigger footprint on the table, and tile placement offers more freedom since you’re not limited to a grid. There are still placement rules to follow, such as connecting tiles on matching sides, but your play area can expand in any direction.Some tiles feature one or two of three icons: car, train, or traveler, which correspond to the three types of meeples in the game. Each round, you receive up to two meeples that you can place on your tiles. Cars connected through highways, trains connected through rails, and travelers connected through either score points immediately. Depending on how you place your tiles, you can also earn points for adjacent city tiles at the end of the game.Railroad Tiles shares some DNA with Railroad Ink, but it is a completely different game. That means if you like or dislike Railroad Ink, there is no guarantee you will feel the same way about Railroad Tiles. As a lightweight tile-laying game, Railroad Tiles is straightforward, quick to learn, and fun to play with any type of player. These qualities make it an excellent choice for light and quick gaming sessions.What are your thoughts? Do you like this game?Please note that we received a review copy of this game.
Do you like Heat: Pedal to the Metal? Have you pla Do you like Heat: Pedal to the Metal? Have you played its expansions?Heat is one of the best racing games ever made! It's incredibly fun, fast-paced, and a game you can play again and again without it feeling repetitive.There are already two expansions available. We didn't get a chance to try Heavy Rain, which came out last year, but we just received a copy of the latest one: Tunnel Vision. This expansion adds purple as a new player color, two more maps (España and Nederland), and new cards for the advanced upgrade, event, and sponsorship decks.The Espaa map features multiple sharp, back-to-back corners and introduces a new mechanic-tunnels. When your car passes through a tunnel, you can't discard cards. This adds an extra layer of planning and hand management, and can increase the luck factor if you're stuck with cards you don't like. The Netherlands map has long stretches followed by tight turns. Both are fun and challenging in their own way.This isn't an essential expansion by any means, but if you're a Heat fan, you're guaranteed to enjoy it.Please note that we received a review copy of this expansion.What are your thoughts? Have you tried this expansion?
Have you played Fromage? Fromage is a medium-li Have you played Fromage? Fromage is a medium-light euro game about cheese making, featuring unique mechanics and quick gameplay. The main board is divided into four quadrants, and everyone plays in their own quadrant simultaneously. After that, the board is rotated, and the next turn begins in the next quadrant. These quadrants represent four different mini games, each playing and scoring in a unique way.Each player has three workers, each capable of producing one of the three cheese types. How these workers function is the core of the game. Besides the cheese type, you also choose the age of the cheese you produce: bronze, silver, or gold. Bronze cheese gave the weakest benefits but returns your worker in the following round. Gold cheese provided the strongest benefits, but you won't get your worker back for three turns. So, the game is all about planning your moves ahead of time and making sure your workers are available when you need them, or sometimes sacrificing future actions to secure a vital spot in your quadrant. This element of the game is incredibly fun.This game scales perfectly, and the component design is a major reason why. Depending on the player count, you slide a sheet into each quadrant of the main board. These sheets determine which locations are available and how everything scores. Essentially, the board is constructed for each specific player count, so you don't need to worry about scoring adjustments or blocking off spaces; everything is already built into the design. This is an excellent use of multi-layered boards and modern board game components.Overall, Fromage is a fun and unique euro game. It's engaging, plays quickly, and features innovative components. It is possible that it can get repetitive after a while if you play it constantly, but considering its weight, playtime, and straightforward rules, it can hit the table often as a great option for lighter gaming sessions. What are your thoughts? Do you like this game? The full review is available on the website (link in bio).(we received a review copy of this game from @r2igames)
Do you like the Pandemic system? Have you seen the Do you like the Pandemic system? Have you seen the newly released Fate of the Fellowship?The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is a cooperative Pandemic game for 1 to 5 players. Each player takes on the role of two characters from the LotR saga and works with the group to protect Frodo on his journey to Mount Doom.If you’ve played Pandemic, the mechanics will feel very familiar. On your turn, you take actions (such as travel, exchanging cards, combat, etc.) and draw cards from the player deck. Then, cards from the shadow deck reinforce enemy troops and send Sauron’s forces chasing after Frodo.The main goal is to complete the Destroy the Ring objective. However, depending on the difficulty level, you'll need to complete a number of other objectives first. The game is a constant balance of moving Frodo out of danger while completing objectives across the map.With 13 unique characters, 24 objectives, and the dynamic between the shadow and player decks, the game offers a lot of variety and stays fresh for a long time.I’m not the biggest fan of the combat mechanism, and the setup can feel a bit involved. The board also gets busy at times. But despite that, the game is incredibly fun. The quality of the components, along with the variety of setup, characters, and objectives, plus the thematic gameplay, all make for an excellent experience. If you’re a LotR fan and enjoy the Pandemic system, you’ll have a blast with this one. Fate of the Fellowship is easily the best Pandemic game I’ve played so far.What do you think? Have you tried this game?Please keep in mind that we received a review copy of this game.
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