Mille Fiori Review
Rating: (4.7)
Mille Fiori is a deceptively simple draft-and-place game that hides more tension than some games twice its weight.
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.
Push Review
Rating: (4.6)
Push is a fast card game that makes gamblers out of everyone at the table... and somehow never wears out its welcome.
Chronicles of Crime Review
Rating: (3.8)
Chronicles of Crime puts you in charge of a murder mystery case and trusts you to solve it on your own—perhaps a bit too much.
Take Time Review
Rating: (1.9)
On paper, Take Time sounded like the perfect cooperative card game. Plus, it's gorgeous. But in practice, it has too many fatal flaws.
Kronologic: Cuzco 1450 Review
Rating: (2.7)
Kronologic: Cuzco 1450 is not the mystery deduction game it promises to be. You expect Clue, but you get sudoku... and not in a good way.
Fantastic Factories Review
Rating: (3.6)
Fantastic Factories is an engine-building race with dice placement. The simultaneous play is fun, if you can look past the shoddy artwork.
Cozy Stickerville Review
Rating: (4.8)
Cozy Stickerville is a cooperative choose-your-own-adventure game where you place hundreds of stickers on a board... and it's surprisingly addictive.
Century: Golem Edition Review
Rating: (3.4)
Century: Golem Edition is pure engine-building card play. Unfortunately, its gorgeous production doesn't make up for thin gameplay.
A Place for All My Books Review
Rating: (1.8)
A Place for All My Books is a cozy twist on worker placement, in which you play as an introverted bookworm cooped up in your apartment.
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.
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: (3.5)
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.