Arboretum Deluxe Edition released in time for Essen Spiel last year but a new print run has just hit stores. Taking the 2015 set collection card game and giving it some special treatment, the gameplay itself remains unchanged. Therefore, this review will cover both the gameplay of either edition...
Copenhagen is the brand new release from publisher Queen Games, which features pattern building and polyomino tiles. Designed by Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen, the game sees 2 - 4 players constructing the Nyhavn harbour building facades, found unsurprisingly in Copenhagen, in...
Azul released two years ago and took the board gaming hobby by storm. The sequel, Azul Stained Glass of Sintra, has recently been released by Next Move Games. Designed by Michael Kiesling, with art from Chris Quilliams, this time around 2 - 4 players will be constructing windows with colourful...
Quadropolis is a city building, tile placement board game, released back in 2016 by Days of Wonder. Designed by François Gandon, featuring artwork from Cyrille Daujean and Sabrina Miramon, the game sees 2 - 4 players become mayors for around 45 minutes. These mayors will be competing to get green...
Ticket to Ride London is the brand new addition to the Ticket to Ride franchise, bringing double decker buses to the set collection, route building board game. Designed by Alan R. Moon, and published by Days of Wonder, this is a small version of the standard game - which plays in around 15 minutes...
The Quacks of Quedlinburg is a 2018 press your luck, bag building, board game from publisher Schmidt Spiele. From one of the hottest designers Wolfgang Warsch, featuring artwork from Dennis Lohausen, the game sees 2 - 4 players brewing potions from peculiar ingredients. Lasting around 30 - 40...
Rhino Hero Super Battle is the sequel to the 2011 dexterity stacking game Rhino Hero. Released in 2017 by HABA, designed by Scott Frisco and Steven Strumpf, the game sees four super heroes Rhino Hero, Giraffe Boy, Big E. and Batguin battling it out up, down and around skyscrapers. With buildings to...
Ten years ago, a game was released for the hobby market. It was cooperative, set on a disease ridden Earth, where players were tasked to save humanity. In a fast moving industry where games get only a minute amount of time in the spotlight Pandemic has shone through. The series has seen multiple...
Fireball Island The Curse of Vul-Kar was kickstarted earlier this year, raising a whooping $2.8 million, and it has now reached retail. Coming from Restoration Games, with designers including Rob Daviau, JR Honeycutt and Justin D. Jacobson chipping in, the game is a reimplementation of the 1986...
The River is a brand new worker placement game from Days of Wonder, the publisher behind the incredibly popular Ticket to Ride franchise. Designed by Sébastien Pauchon and Ismaël Perrin, featuring art from Andrew Bosley, the game sees 2–4 players take up the role of mayors - as they attempt to...
Blue Lagoon is a brand new abstract strategy, route building board game from renowned designer Reiner Knizia. Published by Blue Orange Games, the title sees 2 - 4 players spend around 40 minutes spreading across several islands of a Moana-like archipelago. With exploration and settlement, the game...
Gingerbread House is the brand new tile placement, set collection board game from designer Phil Walker-Harding - the man behind the epic Barenpark and Sushi Go! Published by Lookout Games, featuring art from Andy Elkerton and Klemens Franz, Gingerbread House sees 2 - 4 players spend around 40...
ICECOOL2 is the sequel to a 2016 family friendly, penguin flicking, dexterity board game, which has been just released by publisher Brain Games. Designed by Brian Gomez, whom also designed the original, this title once again sees 2 - 4 players take to the halls of a frozen high school. Games take...
Planet is a brand new 3D puzzle like territory building board game from Blue Orange. Designed by Urtis Šulinskas, with art from Sabrina Miramon, the game sees 2 - 4 players developing a planet made up of 5 different terrain types - from blue oceans to yellow deserts. Taking around 30 minutes to...
Orbis is a hot of the press, tile placement board game from publisher Space Cowboys. Designed by Tim Armstrong, with art from Davide Tosello, the game is themed around constructing a world. Throughout the game players take up the role of a God who aims to construct a world full of worshipers, made...
Reef is a brand new abstract strategy board game from publisher Next Move Games. Designed by Emerson Matsuuchi, with art from Chris Quilliams, the game sees 2 - 4 players play as a growing coral reef. Taking around 20 - 30 minutes to play, players must use colours and patterns of coral pieces to...
Capital, also called Warsaw: City of Ruins, is a city building board game from 2016, with tile placement and drafting mechanics. From publisher Granna and designer Filip Miłuński, the game sees 2 – 4 players spend around 45 minutes constructing a zone of Poland’s capital Warsaw. With...
The latest edition of Santorini, released in 2016 after a Kickstarter campaign, is a colourful and themed version of an abstract strategy, grid movement title of the same name from 2004. Published by Roxley Games and designed by Gordon Hamilton, the title sees 2 - 4 players spend around 10 minutes...
CV is a card and dice game, from 2013, which instead of just being work focused (curriculum vitae) is more about forming a life resume for your character. Designed by Filip Miłuński, players will be pushing their luck against the dice, in a modern interpretation of the Game of Life. Taking around...
Bunny Kingdom, release last year by IELLO, is a board game with unsurprisingly a bunny theme, which has elements of area control and card drafting. Designed by Richard Garfield, with art from Paul Mafayon, the gameplay sees 2 - 4 players spend around 45 - 60 minutes taking control of a bunny clan....
Century Eastern Wonders is the second board game in the Century trilogy from designer Emerson Matsuuchi. Published by Plan B Games, this is a pick up and deliver, set collection board game, which sees 2 - 4 players sail between islands, trade with markets and deliver cargo for points. In an...
Fae is the reimplementation, retheming, of the board game Clans, released by Z-Man Games. The game is designed for 2- 4 players, taking around 30 minutes to play. In Fae monks instead of huts are moved to perform rituals, disappear from the map to score points. Parts of the map become cursed,...
Ticket to Ride: New York is the brand new scaled down card drafting and network building board game from the iconic TtR franchise. Designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Days of Wonder, Ticket to Ride: New York is specifically designed to take around 15 - 20 minutes to play for 2 - 4 players....
The Grimm Forest, released officially earlier this year, is a fantasy themed simultaneous selection, set collection board game. From designer Tim Eisner, artists Noah Adelman, Lina Cossette and David Forest, the game sees 2 - 4 players spend around 45 minutes in the world of fairy tales and...