Author: Joel Lee

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.

AQUA: Biodiversity in the Oceans is a spatial puzzle game using hex tiles. Build the best Coral Reef that attracts the best animals to win!

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.

Do you have board games you want to get rid of? Here's a complete guide on how to sell them and ship them to buyers.

Tired of your cards and components getting dirtied up after every game night? Try serving these cleaner-to-eat foods instead!

Caesar! Seize Rome in 20 Minutes is a two-player area control strategy game with some clever mechanisms that help it shine.

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.

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Isn't board gaming supposed to be a social experience? Why do people play board games on their own? Here's why!

Kickstarter isn't all bad, but I have zero interest in participating in Kickstarter culture. Here's why.

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

Love Letter is a tiny game comprised of just 16 cards for 2 to 4 players. How well does it hold up after all these years?

Is there more to the board gaming hobby than just buying more games? Turns out, yes! The hobby has quite a lot to offer.

Waterfall Park is a brilliant trading and negotiation game that pretty much nails everything. If you want player interaction, it's here.

I used to prefer video games. Here are the reasons why I now prefer to play board games instead.

FUSE is a real-time dice drafting game played cooperatively. Can you defuse all the bomb cards together before time runs out?

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Does this acclaimed flip-and-write game deserve its status as a trendsetter? How well does it really hold up after five years?

Coup is a fun game, but the official rules for two players aren't so great. Here's a variant that's actually really fun. Maybe even more so than the normal game!

Timeline: Inventions is a quick micro card game that's better than you might expect from its premise. It certainly surprised me.

It's been an exciting year! A lot of games entered and left my collection. Here's a rundown of each one.