After playing hundreds of board games I rarely find anything that feels new. There are many good games out there, but they often blend together

Most of what we do here at The Thoughtful Gamer is aimed at people who are already part of the modern board gaming hobby, but

Why is Terraforming Mars so popular? This was the question I posed to twitter the other day. I was admittedly in a bit of a

I’m calling it here: there’s going to be a boom of trick taking games over the next couple of years. The roll and write fad

(Art and components shown are not final.) Stop me if you’ve played this game before. There are some actions, but through an arbitrary process, you

One day, while wading through obstinate, naive political opinions on twitter (are there any other kind?) my eye caught the Good Stuff–a new review from

I distinctly remember the first time I saw a Jackson Pollock drip painting. It nearly put me on the floor. I could not believe the

The first time I played Stephenson’s Rocket I blundered with my very first turn. This 1999 Knizia classic, given a 21st century facelift from Grail

At time of publication you can still pre-order Magnate here. I’ve got to hand it to James Naylor, first time designer and publisher of Magnate:

Where are the dinosaurs?! Ecos is a game about the creation/shifting of earth on a geological scale, and while I’m no expert, that seems like