First Impression

One Deck Dungeon First Impressions

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

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First Impression

Hierarchy First Impressions

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

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Burning Rome First Impression

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

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Supertall First Impression

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

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First Impression

Lisboa First Impression

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

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