Board Games Reviews

Kids games are becoming a dime-a-dozen situation in the board game space, which is both good and really, really bad. Poor productions, uninspired gameplay, and loads of ‘shovelware’ are ruining the kids board games space, requiring parents – some of them with little to no knowledge – to sift through piles of crap to find great games for their kids. My one goal in looking for kids games is that it fulfills one of two purposes: 1) it either teaches…

Over the past month or so, we’ve been playing a ton of IV Studios current Kickstarter project, Scales of Fate. We are working with a prototype copy of the game, so a few things might have changed since we played it, however great communication from the development team meant we had the most up to date rules and iconography throughout our review process. As with all IV Studios titles, the production of this one was phenomenal – you can read…

A brand new set of Star Wars Unlimited means another round of fantastic GameGenic supplies to compliment the new cards. While we still haven’t got around to reviewing the premium card cases GameGenic offers for Star Wars Unlimited (don’t worry, we will eventually!) There are still a lot of products to get excited for. Because we’ve looked at so many of these before in past boxes provided by Fantasy Flight Games, I’m going to skim over the stuff that comes…

Star Wars Unlimited has been my favorite Trading Card Game for a little while now which is shocking because of how much I’ve also loved Altered, and how much I love Disney. While I still prefer the collectible aspect of something like Disney Lorcana better than Unlimited, gameplay wise it’s not even close. With past releases having a heavy emphasis on ground units, it was nice to see things getting mixed up with a set focused very specifically on space…

Thank goodness for games that use a phone but not an application. I get it, it’s 2025 and people want to get really technologically advanced with their board games. Unlocked! does it, Little Alchemists does it. Why not do it? Floristry has a phone component, but it’s web based as opposed to an application. And that makes me so happy. Ok, that wasn’t the normal way I start a review, but people are going to instantly love or hate this…

Prototype copies of games are becoming more and more impressive as the years go by, and when I unboxed Scales of Fate from IV Studio I knew it was going to be something special. First and foremost, IV Studio produces some of the greatest games in my collection, including the very impressive Deluxe Edition of Fractured Sky and Moonrakers, a fantastic card game with great quality cards and metal coins. Even on their prototype, IV Studio went above and beyond…

I might sound like a broken record at this point, but I’ve never been a huge fan of trick taking games, especially cooperative ones. I have great strategic thinking capabilities, but for some reason all logic leaves my brain when it comes to deciding which cards to play in a trick taking experience. While I enjoyed what The Crew was trying to do, it was never a game I wanted to play. With The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship…

There is a trio of board games now in Stonemaier Games’ “Span” franchise and overall I would say they are all really good games. As more come out, you begin to rank them based on how they play and what they do. Preference why, I prefer Wrymspan for a more involved game, and because of that, will probably never play Wingspan again. Finspan, on the other hand, stands alone in my opinion when compared to the other three. Let’s explore…

As GamesReviews grows and our readership of board game content grows with it, we have been given more and more opportunities to review games. As such, it’s not often anymore that I have time to play the games I actually do purchase, and yes I do purchase games! Nestlings was one of those games. I could have gotten it for review through Lucky Duck Games, but ultimately decided to just purchase it myself for a fairly reasonable cost, around $30…

When companies take popular franchises they own and release a younger, kid friendly version of said game, I’m almost always going to be intrigued. With two younger kids – ages 10 and 6 – playing games in our house, introducing them to more complex ideas and concepts with kid friendly games is something I really enjoy. The trick is creating a game that is great for kids, but fun for adults as well. Little Alchemist does just that, and it’s…