Cryptozoic Deck Builders Redux
Appearing at roughly the same time, these two games introduced a new crowd of people to the deck builder genre.
View ArticlePlay This Instead: Scrabble / Paperback
Paperback is a game that blurs the lines between gamers and non-gamers, and offers a fun and engaging deck-building word game that everyone can enjoy
View ArticleMarvel: Days of Future Dice
I saw the unrelenting hype on Twitter and I told myself I was above the hype. I saw the Marvel brand next to the word "collectible" and thought of it as a cheap cash grab. Was I wrong
View ArticleA Crisis in Need of a Hero
Review of the DC Deck Building Game: Crisis Expansion Pack If you aren’t familiar with the DC Deck Building Game or its stand alone expansion, we recommend reading those reviews first to better...
View ArticleZeppelin Mania!
Zeppelin Attack is an amazing deck-building game that reached to do something different in the genre and succeeded. It's light-hearted, thematic, moderately complex and includes many familiar mechanics...
View ArticleTop 5 Two-Player Games For Couples
A Romantic Game Night for Two On Valentine’s Day I am looking forward to those four inviting words that every gamer couple out there loves to hear: “Let’s play a game”. Now I’m not here to spout...
View ArticleHow To Slay Monsters With 2D6
Valeria: Card Kingdoms Valeria is a tableau-building game, designed by Isaias Vallejo and it’s currently on Kickstarter. Nicole first played Valeria last year at an UnPub event we held at Raygun Lounge...
View ArticleYou Can Never Have Too Many Swords
Review of 100 Swords Now on Kickstarter 100 Swords is a satisfying and fun romp through a dungeon without the tediousness of a classic dungeon crawl. You get in, get loot, fight monsters, recover and...
View ArticleUsing Teamwork to Defeat VENOM
A Great Cooperative Deck-Building Game on Kickstarter If you used to spend Saturday Mornings glued to the television watching spunky teams defeat the bad guys, VENOM Assault will give you a big slice...
View ArticleMillennium Blades: the CCG Simulator Game
Going into my first game of Millennium Blades, my main question was "how closely does this resemble real CCGs?" and the answer was more complex than I thought it would be.
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