Dungeons, Dice & Danger Review
Rating: (3.3)
Dungeons, Dice & Danger is an adventurous romp through a dungeon, driven by smart dice manipulation and clever strategy.
2-Player Games
In-depth reviews of all the board games I've played at 2 players, from head-to-head dueling card games to abstract strategy games to everything else. Includes all games that are possible with just 2 players.
Turing Machine Review
Rating: (4.6)
I've never played a deduction game like Turing Machine before. It's impressive, thinky, creative, and worthy of all the accolades.
The Vale of Eternity Review
Rating: (2.8)
The Vale of Eternity distills TCG gameplay into a pure engine builder that sounds awesome on paper but lacks that special sauce.
Junk Art Review
Rating: (3.7)
Junk Art has all the elements of a family classic. It's fast, fresh, and fun—with lots of variety and only a few flaws worth noting.
Décorum Review
Rating: (2.5)
"A game of passive aggressive cohabitation" is the perfect tagline for this game—and perhaps a bit too accurate for its own good.
Duel for Cardia Review
Rating: (3.9)
Duel for Cardia is one of the cleanest, fastest, and most replayable 2-player card duels ever made—and it only gets better the more you play it.
Lure Review
Rating: (4.1)
Lure is a chill push-your-luck dice-chucking game where you need to outwit your opponents for first dibs at the fishing pond.
Tag Team Review
Rating: (5.0)
Build your deck and see where fate takes you! Tag Team is my favorite 2-player dueling card game of all time.
Railroad Tiles Review
Rating: (2.7)
Railroad Tiles is a tile-laying puzzle game that doesn't do enough to rise above the many other games in this genre.
A Carnivore Did It! Review
Rating: (3.8)
Who's lying? Who's telling the truth? Who's the real culprit hiding in the dubious claims? Untangle the logic in A Carnivore Did It!
Hot Streak Review
Rating: (4.7)
Hot Streak is the most fun and silliest race betting game I've ever played. It's so wacky, unpredictable, and charmingly entertaining.
Quiddler Review
Rating: (1.6)
Quiddler is a card-based word building game that squanders its Scrabble-like premise by being too random and overstaying its welcome.
Ra Review
Rating: (4.9)
It's so fun, it feels like a party game (even though it isn't). Ra has earned its status as an all-time great among board games.
That's Not a Hat Review
Rating: (3.7)
A memory-driven party game that you can win even if you have terrible memory? For that alone, That's Not a Hat deserves some praise.
Agent Avenue Review
Rating: (4.6)
Agent Avenue is an outstanding two-player cat-and-mouse card game that plays fast while dripping with tension, deception, and excitement.
Spots Review
Rating: (2.7)
Spots is an adorable little push-your-luck dice game that's sure to appeal. Unfortunately, it's less than the sum of its parts.
Diced Veggies Review
Rating: (3.4)
Diced Veggies is a casual dice drafting game about collecting veggies and cooking them into tasty dishes. Great to play with kids.
Vegas Strip Review
Rating: (2.1)
Vegas Strip mixes casinos, bluffing, cheating, and mind games together... in a way that somehow strips all the fun out of Vegas.
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.