by Ryan | Jul 15, 2024 | Game, How to Play
Long-time supporter of the channel Paverson Games (who you may remember from the hooch-stewing Distilled) has cooked up another title about artisans carefully plying their craft and selling their wares. This time, you play as a family of musical instrument makers...
by Ryan | May 24, 2024 | Game, How to Play
Let’s get this out of the way first and foremost: do the spring-loaded metal player boards in this game… DO… anything? No. No they do not. But will they prove to your friends, once and for all, that you’re a rich and cool person, instead of a...
by Ryan | Jan 20, 2024 | Blog, How to Play
When it comes to giving me board games, Santa’s no slouch. He just seems more optimistic than i am about how much time i have to sit down and enjoy myself. My copy of On Mars: Alien Invasion that i received two Christmases ago is still in shrink, and the...
by Ryan | Nov 28, 2023 | Game, How to Play
What in the great googly moogly even IS this game? When i tried to watch their highly polished how to play video, i was completely lost. It seemed SO complicated and SO out of my reach, that i began to understand how non-board gamers must feel when i try to explain...
by Ryan | Nov 11, 2023 | Game, How to Play
Back when it was announced, i gave you 5 Reasons You Should Be Excited for Voidfall. Now that it’s here, i’ll give you one reason to be less excited: the box, predictably, takes a few hours to organize. And it’s always difficult to sort through...
by Ryan | Sep 2, 2023 | Game, How to Play
You may be familiar with roll n’ write/flip n’ write games like Welcome To…, but Hadrian’s Wall turns things up to 11 by sprawling over two huge sheets simulating Roman society, and your general efforts to manage a milecastle on the...