Three’s Company Sometimes, I really think that boardgame designers have a better understanding of human nature than anyone else. Take Catan, for example. You are a group of bedraggled settlers, just arrived on an...
The 18xx games are a genre all to themselves. Essentially they are heavy train games, which involve you buying and selling shares in train companies and then running those companies to make as much...
Two-player games are rather unique, and differ greatly from multiplayer games both strategically and in the atmosphere they generate. Why is this, and what are the pros and cons of two-player gaming?
War of the Ring is one of my Top 30 Games of All Time. I’ve played it a fair bit over the years, mostly with my Boardgame Opinions compatriot Mark Windle, since he owns...
I do not, in general, enjoy watching professional sport. Nor do I even think that I am that likely to enjoy watching pro gamers. Why? Because the longer people spend playing a game the...
It’s a short post today, mainly to show off the preliminary artwork that’s come in for our Doomsday card game. This is the one where you’re running around on the island trying to survive...
An undisputed classic of the heavy strategy genre, the mechanics of Pie Face are notoriously difficult to master. Indeed the skill cap for this game is so high that even people who have played...
I went to Mythic Day last month. Mythic Games is the company behind the very successful Solomon Kane Kickstarter. They are based in France, but they decided to host an event day at Warboar...
Personally, I have never tried to bribe a pirate. I understand that some people may enjoy the activity, and in principle I am not opposed to it, but it just doesn’t appeal to me...
When I was a student, I remember getting together with a bunch of other students to play Talisman. A friend of mine used to play it a lot as a child and reckoned we’d...
