Joel Lee

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.

Ex Libris Review

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

New York Slice Review

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

Mission: Red Planet Review

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

7 Wonders: Architects Review

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

One Deck Dungeon Review

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 Review

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

Maquis Review

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

Illiterati Review

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

Junk Drawer Review

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

First Rat Review

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

Giveaway: Project L [ENDED]

Learn more about this month's giveaway and how you can enter for a chance to win! Must be 18+ and live in the United States.

Grove Review

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 Review

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 Review

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

Romi Rami Review

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

Cartographers Review

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

Love Letter Review

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?

Waterfall Park Review

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

FUSE Review

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

Welcome To... Review

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