by Ryan | Oct 28, 2022 | Game, How to Play
Tim Fowers is known for running a scrappy little board game shop producing fun and unique games like Burgle Bros. and Now Boarding. He followed up his original Scrabble-like deck-builder Paperback with a sequel called Hardback, and now Paperback Adventures carries on...
by Ryan | Sep 1, 2022 | Game, How to Play
Astra is a casual connect-the-dots game where you compete to claim constellations. Each constellation gives you a new ability, but anyone who contributed to its discovery gets a perk, too! (click to view transcript) The night sky is peppered with thousands of stars...
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 | May 13, 2022 | Game, How to Play
There’s no more thoroughly played board game in my collection than Werewolves of Millers Hollow, an excellent commercial take on the folk social deduction game Werewolf (AKA Mafia), which has seen many other iterations, including Ultimate Werewolf, One Night...
by Ryan | Feb 17, 2022 | Game, How to Play
i came away quite impressed with Long Shot: the Dice Game, a roll & write title that supports up to 8 players (though i’m not sure you’d want it to…?) The game appeared on my Top Ten New Board Games of 2021 list, and you can even watch me play it...
by Ryan | Oct 2, 2021 | How to Play
We like space games here at Nights Around a Table. From Race to the Galaxy to Roll for the Galaxy to Tiny Epic Galaxies and its expansion, if it’s set in space, we dig it. Black Angel is also set in space, and it’s a dice worker placement game to boot! Me...
