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.

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.

Fugitive Review

Rating: (4.0)

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

AQUA: Biodiversity in the Oceans Review

Rating: (3.4)

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 Review

Rating: (3.3)

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

Junk Drawer Review

Rating: (3.8)

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

First Rat Review

Rating: (4.0)

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

The A.R.T. Project Review

Rating: (1.4)

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

Rating: (2.7)

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

Romi Rami Review

Rating: (2.9)

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

Cartographers Review

Rating: (4.8)

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

Love Letter Review

Rating: (1.5)

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?

FUSE Review

Rating: (3.3)

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

Rating: (5.0)

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

Timeline: Inventions Review

Rating: (2.7)

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