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’m a massive Lord of the Rings fan, and the past 12 months have been great for Lord of the Rings board game fans. Lord of the Rings Duel (a reimagining of 7 Wonders Duel), The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring Trick Taking Game, and now The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship. All of the games have been fantastic in their own way, but Fate of the Fellowship is one of the best…

Although the timeframe and theme of Gatsby wasn’t as interesting to me as I first thought before opening the box, the colorful artwork and nifty little wooden pieces makes me want to give the game a shot. That, and I love to have two player games in the house for my wife and I to play. I’ve been swayed by nice components and art before, so can Gatsby do that for me too? Honestly, I only have one gripe with…

Small little card and dice games are something I’m generally a pretty big fan of. I love a game with a bit of substance, but one that can also be played in 10-20 minutes. I’m always awarding some nice bonus points to games that look or feel amazing as well – it seems that Pina Coladice, a game I picked up at GenCon 2025 from Hachette USA, fits all of those requirements. In Pina Coladice, players are rolling a group…

Thunder Road Vendetta is a game I’ve looked at often but never pulled the trigger on. To be honest, I should have done more research because I wasn’t entirely sure what it was. Heat: Pedal to the Metal is a decent enough game, but I wasn’t really into the racing genre as much as I thought I would be. Turns out that while Thunder Road is a race, it’s a lot different than Heat, and I’m going to like it…

Cooperative-Competitive games are generally not things I enjoy, especially if played with the wrong person. While Castle Panic is a great game, giving the “win” to whomever kills the most monsters might make some players purposefully lose if they don’t feel they can win. We’re Sinking: A Pirate’s Dilemma has a similar idea, although the game is much more competitive than cooperative. That said, this isn’t our game review so you’ll have to wait to see what I think of…

I’ve always said that the board game space seriously lacks food related games, but all I had to do was type in “Food” and “Board Games” into Google to be proven very, very wrong. So I’ve remade my previous statement as follows: “The board game space lacks food related games that I want to play.” Enter Food for Thought, a much deeper game than your average food related game (which tends to be very card based, by the way). While…

When it comes to campaign games, or even standalone experiences with involved stories, I’m basically going to love them. That said, I’ve played a fair number of games that have a pretty good story, but the production quality is subpar at best, making the entire experience so much less enjoyable. If you’ve ever had the chance to play games coming from Van Ryder Games or Lucky Duck Games, you know the quality is always superb. With almost no knowledge of…

When Star Wars Shatterpoint first launched my father-in-law and I were all into it. Asmodee Canada and Atomic Mass sent us box after box, and we reviewed them all and got them all painted. As time has gone by, we’ve gotten pretty busy on the website, which is a good problem to have. We are working with more publishers and designers than ever, so we cannot always cover everything. So for about 9 months, we took a break from Star…

While there is a nice, deluxe version of Potions of Azerland with nice little wooden components, we had a chance to check out the retail release at GenCon 2025, and even went home with a copy thanks to Lucky Duck Games! It was the first title I dove headfirst into when I got home, and the presentation didn’t disappoint. It’s not all good though, as the mixture of character cards between fantasy characters and real life people – Kickstarter reward,…

Unconscious Minds was a game I’ve been really interested in since it was released, and I thought that GenCon 2025 was going to be my chance to play it in the GenCon Game’s Library. Unfortunately it wasn’t available there for play, but Lucky Duck Games was nice enough to send me home with a copy for review. So of course, it was one of the first games I had to unboxed! The production of Unconscious Minds is a mixed bag…