No need to bury the lede: as of this morning, The Old King's Crown is now in funding for its second printing. If you haven't read my review, the short version is that Pablo Clark'
It hasn't been all that long since we took a look at Re;ACT: The Arts of War, an intriguing but imperfect game about various artists manifesting their crafts into the physical world in order ...
Remember when every other game was a roll-and-write? That was living proof that even golden ages come with cloudy linings. Flip Pick Towers, designed by Rob Fisher and Adam Porter, benefits from it ...
It's in my nature to appreciate wallets. I own a couple dozen of the things. One for carrying money and eleven-year-old gift cards to defunct smoothie chains, the rest for microgames from But ...
Sold initially at the Indie Games Night Market, Joseph Z. Chen's Flip Stack Burger Shack has all the markings of an indie darling: its not-quite-smooth discs look great on the table, the game ...
Whenever a new fad mechanism comes around -- deck-building, trick-taking, now it seems maybe dominoes might be having a moment -- I'm disappointed to discover it isn't mancala. Because ma ...
For my money -- or, all right, for my attention -- Blaž Gracar is one of the finest puzzle-makers of this generation. Between All Is Bomb and LOK, I've spent countless hours fiddling my way thr ...
Shasn. Oh, Shasn. Zain Memon's 2021 board game occupies a strange place in my memory as a vibrant, unsettling, funny, and tonally inconsistent game, and I mean that in the most complimentary ...
Have these bros had enough burgling? Apparently not. After two full Burgle Bros, not to mention at least three other wacky stealth games, I think it's fair to confess to some fatigue. Burgle ...
Between the old-world deities, satirical tone, and bean-sized mortals begging to be smited (or blessed), the forthcoming game Almighty feels like it was tailor-made with me in mind. This is the thi ...