Pandemic Legacy Season 0 is the third and final installment of the cooperative board game from publisher Z-Man Games. Designed by Rob Daviau and Matt Leacock, season 0 puts a spin on things, as it is actually a prequel set back in 1962. 2 - 4 players will find themselves back in the midst of The...
Marvel Infinity Gauntlet is a brand new card game from publisher Z-Man Games, themed around Thanos’ search for the six infinity stones. The game is designed by Alexandar Ortloff and Seiji Kanai, the man behind Love Letter which this new game is based upon. Infinity Gauntlet takes the much loved...
Pandemic Rapid Response is the latest Pandemic themed game from publisher Z-Man Games. Designed by Kane Klenko, the game is still fully cooperative like the rest of the franchise, though this time around features real time dice rolling. During the game 2 - 4 players will attempt to airdrop aid and...
Pandemic Legacy Season 1 is so highly regarded it held the top spot on BoardGameGeek ranking system for years. It was an experience that took players through a year in a virus mutating world month by month. Well, in the lore of Pandemic Legacy Season 2 that was 70 years ago. Most cities have since...
Pandemic Rising Tide is the 2017, round the world like, variant of Matt Leacock’s iconic cooperative franchise. Co-designed by Jeroen Doumen, with Leacock, it is a board game with hints of hand management from publisher Z-Man Games, featuring art from Atha Kanaani. The game sees 2 - 5 players...
Carcassonne Amazonas, the 2016 release in the Around the World series from Hans im Glück and Z-Man Games, is a tile placement board game. Designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, with art from Vicki Dalton, the game sees 2 - 5 players swap the French countryside town of Carcassonne for the thick Amazon...
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...
Pandemic Iberia is a cooperative board game set in the Iberian Peninsula in 1848, published by Z-Man Games. Designed by Jesús Torres Castro and Matt Leacock, Pandemic Iberia sees 2 - 5 players take around 45 - 60 minutes trying to cure diseases across the region of Portugal and Spain. Gone are the...
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,...
Blueprints is a dice rolling, pattern building board game from Z-Man Games, originally released back in 2013. The game, by designer Yves Tourigny, sees 2 - 4 players become architects for around 30 minutes. Utilizing different coloured dice as materials, players construct structures based upon...
Carcassonne: The Tower (Expansion 4) was originally released back in 2006 for the original edition of Carcassonne. Tower segments, a range of new tiles and a tile holder come into play via expansion 4, from designer Klaus-Jurgen Wrede. This latest print run has the same colourful cities of the...
Released last year, Smile is a lightweight card game from designer Michael Schacht and publisher Z-Man Games. The game sees 3 - 5 players spend around 30 minutes attempting to tame point scoring critters, whilst using fireflies to avoid others. As the name suggests even the wild critters that...
Through The Desert was originally released 20 years ago, in 1998, and has just been reprinted by Z-Man Games. The board game, from designer Reiner Knizia, is all about route building and camels. 2 - 5 Players will strategize and plan routes across the desert, building up camel caravans to venture...
Carcassonne Gold Rush is the second title in the "Carcassonne: Around the World" series of games, which sees the base game of Carcassonne slightly adapted and taken to a new location. In this version players will take up the roles of cowboys in 19th century North America in the midst of the gold...
Z-Man has just released the Carcassonne Big Box 2017, with the game hitting the shelves of Friendly Local Game Stores within the next few weeks. Saying this, the Carcassonne Big Box 2017 cannot really be classed as a game. It's more a bundle of an incredible game with 11, yes 11, expansions....
Pandemic is a co-operative board game from Z-Man Games for 2 - 4 players, though it could easily be played as a solo game. The average playtime is around 45 minutes for a game though this can be cut short if you fail early on! In Pandemic players are playing cooperatively against the game itself....
