40 Essential SOLO Board Games
Hey everyone, in this article we’re looking at 40 essential board games for solo gamers. A few rules before we get started: this list contains only games that are available on retail or on the publisher’s site at the time of publishing . You won’t find expensive out-of-print Kickstarter...
15 Games for you if you like Final Girl
You might have noticed that I’m a huge fan of final girl, the solo board game of horror. The game offers lots of content, but if you’re looking for a change of pace I’ve got you covered with 15 games recommended for Final Girl Fans. Note: I have a...
15 Games you’ll like as a Dune Imperium fan
Dune Imperium is one of the recent examples of how a popular franchise can be turned into excellent board games. It has a lot of great expansions as well, but if you’re looking for something fresh we’ve got 15 games recommended for you if you like Dune Imperium. In...
40 Essential Family Board Games (Best tabletop games with kids)
We have evolved as a species and thanks to that we don’t have to suffer through terrible board games anymore. But with so many good family games nowadays it can be tough to choose. I’ve also seen multiple times that my kids actually enjoy games that most tabletop fans...
10 Trading Card Games that didn’t stand a chance against Magic: The Gathering
Magic the Gathering has been an undeniable success since its release more than 30 years ago, and it keeps growing in popularity, with more than 40 millions players worldwide, with its recent growth in part due to the success of its digital version, MTG Arena. Magic the Gathering, released...
Mage Knight: The rise and fall of one of the most successful miniature games ever.
A huge part of the hobby for me is to look for new games. I like to feed on “Top 100” recommendation lists for this or that kind of board games, then build my own opinion from various sources of board game recommendations. I found “Mage Knight” in a...
Drafting is so much better than constructed and nobody told me! (Or how I reconciled with Magic the Gathering and MTG Arena)
Magic The Gathering is a game I had kind of given up on. It was part of my “10 popular boards games that didn’t work for me“, and for a specific reason: I really don’t like the person I become when I play Magic, MTG Arena in particular, and...
The board game review world faces an identity crisis
What would you think of an Amazon review where the customer was offered the product for free in exchange for an “honest” review? When it comes to reviewing board games, where does the “regular business practice” stop, and the “conflict of interest” start? A few days ago, a thread...
A Middara review by a Gloomhaven veteran
TL,DR: Middara is a solid Dungeon crawler with tons of contents and an interesting story (provided the “Anime” style of the characters and come-of-age story doesn’t completely annoy you). So if what you’re looking for is a modern dungeon crawler with a massive campaign and characters you’ll get attached...
Are board games an expensive hobby?
No…but yes. Buying the occasional board game is usually not considered an expensive thing for a family, as people think of the traditional $20 monopoly. But for us hobbyists, it’s a different thing. We buy way more of those, and the games we buy are more expensive. The recent...