Captain Flip Review

Rating: (4.1)

Captain Flip is a quick and simple tile placement game where you have to push your luck if you want to come out ahead.

Alibis Review

Rating: (4.4)

Alibis is a party-style word association game that succeeds as a small but welcome evolution on So Clover and Codenames.

Mindbug Review

Rating: (4.3)

Mindbug is an excellent two-player dueling card that's fast and simple, with one special twist that elevates it to true greatness.

Sea Salt & Paper Review

Rating: (2.0)

Sea Salt and Paper is a quaint little card game that feels a lot like those messy homemade card games you might've come up with as a kid.

Sky Team Review

Rating: (4.3)

Sky Team is a cooperative two-player dice placement game with limited communication. One of the hottest games of the last few years!

Point Salad Review

Rating: (2.4)

Point Salad is a simple card drafting game about collecting veggies for salads.

Floristry Review

Rating: (4.3)

Floristry is an app-assisted two-player auction game where you bid for flower tiles to build a better floral display than your opponent.

Archeos Society Review

Rating: (3.6)

Archeos Society is a brilliant set collection card game that's brought down a few pegs by its overly clunky production.

Castle Combo Review

Rating: (4.6)

Castle Combo is a simple card game about drafting the best nine-card tableau to score the most points. It's fast, fun, and replayable.

Let's Go! To Japan Review

Rating: (2.1)

Let's Go! To Japan uses card drafting and tableau building to simulate what it'd be like to plan a week-long trip to Japan's Tokyo and Kyoto.

Wildstyle Review

Rating: (4.1)

Wildstyle is a uniquely fun real-time game where you try to control territory on a central board by quickly collecting sets of cards.

Bomb Busters Review

Rating: (4.8)

Bomb Busters is a cooperative game of logical deduction and limited communication. It might just be the best of its kind.

Foundations of Metropolis Review

Rating: (4.4)

Foundations of Metropolis is a city-building strategy game where players try to block and exploit each other on a shared central board.

Divvy Dice Review

Rating: (3.2)

Divvy Dice is a roll-and-write game where you chuck dice and benefit whenever anyone else chooses to reroll.

MicroMacro: Crime City Review

Rating: (4.5)

MicroMacro: Crime City combines hidden object search with narrative and deduction into a fresh, unique, and charming package.

Link City Review

Rating: (1.6)

Link City is a cooperative party-style word association game where you're trying to place location tiles via mind melding.

Shelf Update: 2024 Year in Review

A lot has changed and I had to take a break for a while. But I'm itching to get back into it, starting with my updated shelf!

Caper: Europe Review

Rating: (4.0)

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

Doodle Dash Review

Rating: (3.4)

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 Review

Rating: (3.9)

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

King of Tokyo Review

Rating: (3.8)

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 Review

Rating: (3.1)

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 Review

Rating: (3.9)

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

Ex Libris Review

Rating: (3.0)

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

New York Slice Review

Rating: (2.1)

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

Rating: (3.7)

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

Rating: (2.8)

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

Rating: (3.0)

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.