Author: Joel Lee

Joel is an omnigamer who unrepentantly lives for family-style board games, but also enjoys everything from lighter fare to midweight titles. All game mechanics are fair game and the entire spectrum of Euro-style to American-style games are fun under the right circumstances. He's based in the Philadelphia area and loves to play, watch, research, buy, trade, and write about board games and card games.

Caper: Europe is a two-player card game about pulling off heists with card drafting, set collection, and tableau building.

Doodle Dash is a party game where players race to draw words as quickly as they can to lead the guesser towards the right answer.

Heat: Pedal to the Metal is a racing board game in which smart card play and efficient maneuvering will get you across the finish line first.

King of Tokyo is a classic game of dice chucking that's great for kids and adults alike. How does it hold up after all these years?

One Deck Galaxy is a tableau-style dice game where you build up a space civilization and take down an Adversary before it's too late!

Coffee Roaster is a solo board game where bag-building represents the challenge of brewing a perfectly tasty cup of coffee.

Ex Libris is a whimsical strategy game that blends worker placement, tableau building, and hand management.

New York Slice is the quintessential game of "I cut, you choose" where players split pizzas and try to grab the best slices for themselve

Mission: Red Planet is a strategic game that blends area control with simultaneous action selection for tense mind games and conflicts.

7 Wonders: Architect is a beautifully produced set collection game where you're racing to construct your Wonder of the World.

One Deck Dungeon is a dice-rolling game that simulates a dungeon crawl, complete with items, skills, and a boss at the end of every dungeon.

Fugitive is a two-player hidden movement game that blends bluffing with deduction to create a tense, thinky battle of wits.

Maquis is a solo worker placement game that feels like an abstract puzzle game with elements of push-your-luck.

Illiterati is a real-time, cooperative word-spelling game that puts a fun spin on classics like Scrabble and Bananagrams.

Junk Drawer is a polyomino puzzle board game that's simple, fast, and elevated by its unique push-your-luck elements.

First Rat is a strategic family board game that blends action efficiency, set collection, and engine building to fantastic results.

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Grove is a solo puzzle-style microgame that involves the strategic overlapping of cards and dice to score as highly as you can.

The A.R.T. Project is a cooperative game of action efficiency where you're trying to recover stolen art pieces from the White Hand.

Project L is an engine-building game where you solve polyomino puzzles to acquire more pieces to solve even bigger puzzles.

Romi Rami is a compact card game that puts a few modern twists on traditional rummy-style gameplay.

Cartographers is a flip-and-write game where you draw polyomino shapes onto a grid-based map to score points.