by Ryan | Aug 30, 2026 | Bits, Please!, Game
It feels pretty crazy to spend megabux on something, only to end up throwing pieces of it into the garbage. But when those pieces are so bad as to make a game nigh-unplayable, it’s 3D printing to the rescue to salvage the...
by Ryan | Jul 4, 2026 | Game, How to Play
Take a bit of pick-up-and-deliver, a bit of set collection, and a little resource management, and roll it up in a cyberpunk aesthetic with robots and cyborgs straight out of a fantasy biker gang, and you’ve got Vestige. Sandbox games can be frustrating for...
by Ryan | Jul 4, 2026 | Game, How to Play
As a die-hard board game fan, your first thought at seeing Flockers (from the publisher behind Feudum and Fled) might be “Hey…. looks like Odin’s Ravens.” That’s certainly what i thought. And while, yes, both games have you racing bird...
by Ryan | May 23, 2025 | Game, How to Play
Don’t have time to commit to a multi-game campaign across 3 acts and a prologue? i don’t blame you! The Battles expansion for Stars of Akarios supplies you with a book of one-shot encounters that you can just choose from at random. Minor rules...
by Ryan | May 23, 2025 | Game, How to Play
The Drones expansion for Stars of Akarios adds a sub-mission between the Prologue and Act I that introduces helper robots. These robots occupy some of the upgrade slots on your player board, in exchange for a variety of abilities to give you advantage in your outer...
by Ryan | May 23, 2025 | Game, How to Play
If you are possessed of the 1) disposable income 2) free time and 3) dedicated friend group required to play a multi-session campaign game the details a series of outer space dogfights, i am well jells. Stars of Akarios has two modes: the aforementioned space spats...
