Card Games
In-depth reviews of all the card games I've played, from quick hand-management fillers to deep drafting and engine-building experiences. Find your next favorite game to shuffle up and play.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Point Salad Review
Rating: (2.4)
Point Salad is a simple card drafting game about collecting veggies for salads.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Grove Review
Rating: (4.6)
Grove is a solo puzzle-style microgame that involves the strategic overlapping of cards and dice to score as highly as you can.
Romi Rami Review
Rating: (2.9)
Romi Rami is a compact card game that puts a few modern twists on traditional rummy-style gameplay.
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?
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.