Smuggles N’ Snuggles is a game I Kickstarted on its last day at the urging of one of my friends who, by her own admission, doesn’t like tabletop games. But she loves this one. She is acquainted with Jonathan Ahnert,…
Category: Table Top Reviews
Authentic Agility Games’ “How Do You See The World?” Review
It was a happy coincidence that as some friends and I were discussing how much we wanted to have deeper, more meaningful conversations that I could review How Do You See the World?, a new card game by Authentic Agility…
Clank! Deck Building Dungeon Crawl
After several rounds of the Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle deck building game I found myself wanting more in a similar vein, but with more variability. Clank!, a deck builder by Dire Wolf Digital and Renegade Game Studios, is a delightful…
Horizon Zero Dawn brought to Analog by Steamforged Games
In addition to their already popular Guild Ball series, Steamforged Games’ booth at GenCon included demos of Godtear and dioramas of their Dark Souls board game. As an avid fan of Horizon Zero Dawn on PS4 I was excited to…
Forbidden Sky: Why Aren’t We Allowed Anywhere?
You’ve survived the sea, you’ve survived the sand, but can you stand when the sky itself is against you? Welcome, dear readers, as you disembark from your hastily made aircraft. Please deposit all of the sand that you are carrying…
Arkham Horror 3rd Edition: A Quick Impression
(As a note, I demo’ed this game at GenCon, where Fantasy Flight was doing rolling demos. This means that while I watched a few games and played several rounds, I did not play a full game and can’t fully say…
Impression: Freeblades Fantasy Skirmish Game
When my wargaming friends and I have gotten deeper into our drinks, our conversation steers towards the limits of d6 based rules systems for tabletop wargaming. I was reminded of this at GenCon upon seeing a demo set up for…
Bee Lives: An Impression That’s Just Buzzing Around The Corner
It Lives! It Lives! Rise now, my minion, and wreck terror upon the masses with your fearsome stinger… Wait. What do you mean that ‘Lives’ is a noun here? Indeed, this is not a game regarding the resurrection of bees…
Impression and Review of Inoka by XYZ Games
Inoka is a tarot sized card game played with 2-4 people centered around a rock, paper, scissors mechanic. The game was created by XYZ Games Labs, an indie Chicago based games company. Their first game was RobotLab, successfully funded on…
Pazaak at Gen Con: A taste of KotOR
Fifteen years ago Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR to use the shorthand) was an instant hit, and as the intervening years have shown, an instant classic. Awash in the sea of games that is Gen Con there was a…