Orion and I got a sneak peek at Union City Alliance, a new cooperative superhero deckbuilding game now on Kickstarter. We give our initial thoughts

If there’s a primary distinction between tabletop games and video games, besides the technology, it’s that video games usually try to obscure the inner workings

Hierarchy is on Kickstarter through the 18th I was talking to a game designer the other day about microgames, and he commented that often finds

This one’s up on Kickstarter for only a week longer! Anyone planning to design a microgame has a number of tough decisions ahead of them

Deep within the heart of the Terror Swamps, the noble adventurers plod through the muck, their…paws caked with mud. The heroes are pugs, okay? They’re

Burning Rome is a game I’ve had a very difficult time contextualizing. It comes in this saturated blood-red box with the subtitle “Rome’s Nightmare”. The

Warning: Very light and mostly non-specific spoilers for the first 4 games of Charterstone. Lots of spoilers for stuff you’ll find out pretty quickly in

The Supertall Kickstarter is online until 6/30 Straight off their rousing success with Sprawlopolis, a genuinely great cooperative puzzle game, Button Shy is now kickstarting

One summer in my childhood my friend and I got obsessed with Soul Calibur 2 for the Gamecube. It was my first true experience with

Lisboa, Portuguese eurogame master Vital Lacerda’s newest design, is a visual and mechanical smorgasboard–a hodgepodge of player incentives, feedback loops, and iconography teetering on the

I just spent the weekend down in Connecticut at “Connclave” playing games non-stop. I know you’re all immensely jealous about that fact, so I’m here

You stare at the grid of faces. Some are human. Others–robots. It doesn’t matter. All that matters are the faces, and the names. Is the

How can this not be a first impression? Has anyone ever finished Gloomhaven? It’s so big and so immense in its scope that I fear

I’ve been learning and playing a lot of new games recently, but none of them have made the impression that Concordia has after only one

I have this theory, supported by some evidence, that game designers have to harbor a bit of cruelty for the participants in their games in

I don’t think I’ll create any controversy by saying that the War on Terror is, and has been, a mess. A war of intelligence gathering

Yesterday the Thoughtful Gamer group went to Knight Moves, a local board game cafe, to try out some games we hadn’t played before. I had

After quickly reading through the “set-up” portion in the Millennium Blades rulebook, I found myself sitting in front of a stack of cards about five

Scythe contains one of the most purely satisfying actions I’ve ever experienced in a board game. Picture this: a beautiful individual player board that shows

Food Chain Magnate is maybe the funniest board game I’ve ever played. It doesn’t have single moments of hysterical laughter like you might find in

Splendor burst into the boardgaming scene a couple of years ago, becoming one of the most popular board game titles ever. To wit: right now