by Ryan | May 20, 2022 | Game, How to Play
My Christmas gift in the Long, Long Ago was On Mars, the first game from renowned (and somewhat notorious) designer Vital Lacerda. It took another 6 months to get it played, and nearly a year before i finally finished this: the How to Play video i wish i’d had...
by Ryan | Aug 16, 2024 | Game, Livestream, Reboxing, Unboxing
i don’t drink, so i can’t account for that crazy day over a year ago when i asked Cheryl how much of the Terraforming Mars Prelude 2 Kickstarter campaign she wanted to back, and she told me to just get it all… probably without knowing what the total...
by Ryan | Jun 28, 2021 | Game, Unboxing
Chances are you already know How to Play Terraforming Mars, and are just interested in what you get in the big, fancy deluxe box. Here’s my long-winded answer! Get Your Own Copy of Terraforming Mars: Big Box At the time of posting, the Terraforming Mars Big Box...
by Ryan | Feb 4, 2020 | Game, How to Play
Not to be confused with Terra Mystica, as my wife Cheryl would have it (“Don’t we already own that game…?”), Terraforming Mars is a near-future hard sci-fi game about making the red planet a cozier place, over several generations of effort by...
by Ryan | Nov 18, 2024 | Game, How to Play
Ascendancy mashes up two well-worn board game mechanics: it’s a 4X game (eXplore, eXploit, eXpand, eXterminate) crossed with a worker placement game. But would you believe me if i told you this isn’t the first time i’ve seen this unique combo? Years...
