Dear reader, we left you at the end of June, and we reconvene now to celebrate the end of the year and to wrap up the...
2023 a year in review – part 2
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Board Game(s) of the year 2023? Am I too late?
In 2023, my total plays are somewhere around the 500 count, across 114 different games, 54 of which were new to me!...
Comic Lover, Creator? Or maybe you’ve always wanted to live in the golden years – An Age of Comics: The Golden Years Review
Age of comics: The Golden Years (just Age of Comics from here onwards) is a worker placement game in which sees you...
A tale of 3 games, a gimmick, an upstart, and a modern master piece, A Dropolter, Rafter Five and startups review
Well, hello there, dear reader, you find yourself here at the beginning of our tale. Today, we're exploring three Oink...
A board gaming weekend at Handycon!
A second blog post in a week might be a record, (P.S it's a long one!), but let's get straight to it. This weekend, I...
Is more better? Or is new mechanisms a new way of life? A Red Rising Review
Red Rising from Stonemaier Games, designed by Jamey Stegmaier and Alexander Schmidt. Is a hand management combo...
Anyone for a hike? A Trailblazer: The John Muir trail review.
Ever have a fear of coming back to a game? That's what Trailblazer: The John Muir Trail did to me. I'd played a...
Culling the collection, step by step, from 531 previously owned down to 50
Let's be honest, nobody needs 100 board games, let alone 500! That kind of collection would require playing games...
I’m not obsessed with Obsession, but you might be..
This feels like a difficult review to write, I've played Obsession some 21 times now, with and without the...