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...
by Ryan | May 23, 2025 | Game, How to Play
Five Crowns is a rummy-style game where the goal is to get rid of all your cards. It adds a suit called “stars” to the usual clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades. You have to get rid of all of your cards in a single go, instead of in batches, by forming...
by Ryan | Apr 22, 2025 | Game, How to Play
Trickerion. It’s a game i keep going back to, whether to teach its big expansion Dahlgaard’s Acadenmy, one of its little expansions, or to livestream it on my birthday. Mindclash Games invited me to talk about the latest expansion, coming an incredible 10...
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...
