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Dominion is the deck-builder that started them all – but does it still hold up today?

Matthew Smail — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:00:36 +0000

Dominion, designed by Donald X. Vaccarino and published by Rio Grande Games, is one of the few modern board games that can genuinely be called foundational. Released in 2008, it didn’t just popularise an existing mechanism — it effectively created an entirely new genre: the now commonplace deck‑builder. Its core idea is now so ubiquitous […]

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Viticulture: Bordeaux Expansion Review – A Worthy Vintage?

John Hobkinson — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:00:37 +0000

With Viticulture, we’ve previously sipped along the Rhine, strolled through Tuscany, and now Viticulture: Bordeaux invites us to one of the most prestigious wine regions in the world to see what the locals are fermenting. First things first: you do need the base game of Viticulture to play. If you don’t own it, I’ll politely […]

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Perch Review – Birds Behaving Badly

John Hobkinson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:00:21 +0000

There are many board games about animals living peacefully in nature. Grazing deer. Industrious beavers. Happy little woodland creatures cooperating under the gentle glow of the forest canopy. Perch is not one of those games. Instead, Perch asks a far more interesting question: what if birds were petty, territorial opportunists willing to shove each other […]

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Arkham Horror The Card Game Chapter Two Core Set Review – A Perfect Starting Point?

John Hobkinson — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:00:08 +0000

There are games that invite you to sit around a comfy table with friends and enjoy a pleasant evening full of laughs and light-hearted competition. Then there is Arkham Horror: The Card Game. This one hands you a flickering lantern, leans in just a little too close, whispers something deeply unsettling about things man was not […]

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If you like accessible strategy games then this is Dewan you want!

Matthew Smail — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:00:09 +0000

Dewan, from designers Johannes Goupy and Yoann Levet and published by Space Cowboys, is an attractive, thematic strategy game that blends straightforward yet crunchy mechanics with a gentle post-apocalyptic story. It’s clean, elegant, and intuitively understandable, yet the decisions it presents are consistently interesting. What elevates Dewan beyond a typical spatial puzzle is the way […]

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Focus – All about what’s not said

Jupiter Hadley — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:00:44 +0000

Some board games require a bit of mind reading, and so need someone that you are familiar with in order to play them. Focus feels like one of these types! It’s a two player sort of card game (though all of the cards are square) where you must lay out a bunch of different objects […]

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McDonald’s trading card collection, McDonald’s CARDS is out now!

Jupiter Hadley — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:23:47 +0000

Trading cards are everywhere, so I wasn’t too surprised when McDonald’s released McDonald’s CARDS as a part of their ‘McDonald’s Universe’. You can now order specific meals (not Happy Meals!) to gain packs of cards that you can open and collect. Accodingly, you can order a McDonald’s CARDS meal: Big Mac meal, Double Big Mac […]

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Get Bit – Cute meeples, fun game

Jupiter Hadley — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:00:25 +0000

I was drawn to playing Get Bit at The Dice Box King’s Lynn on a recent visit due to how cute the meeples looked. That’s not normally something that I really consider, but these meeples were little divers, with detachable limbs, which just seemed like a cool idea. It turns out, this is a major […]

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Star Wars Unlimited – A Lawless Time Preview

Liam Freeman — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:42:09 +0000

Disney’s relatively new Star Wars: Unlimited TCG may have flown under the radar for some, as It certainly had for me, but I was delighted to have a chance to learn and play with the new A Lawless Time cards and build a deck to play against some of the scenes more veteran players at […]

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The Catstronauts Fish Finder Satellite fixes the main flaw of the core game

Dann Sullivan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:00:54 +0000

I was a really big fan of Catstronauts when we played it — there was just enough on to keep it interesting, and the way that it promoted co-operative gameplay felt both incredibly modern and refined. That said, there were two main issues, which the Catstronauts Fish Finder Satellite expansion quickly fixes. Catstronauts, for those […]

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Mindbug x King of Tokyo is a fast-paced, small box design that is packed full of smart ideas

Matthew Smail — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:00:12 +0000

Mindbug x King of Tokyo is a surprising and yet extremely well-suited crossover. Richard Garfield has spent decades refining two very different strands of design: the tight, tactical cardplay of Magic: The Gathering and the big, swingy, personality‑driven chaos of King of Tokyo. Mindbug, co‑designed with Marvin Hegen and Christian Kudahl, sits somewhere between those […]

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Catstronauts – Cats in SPACE!

Jupiter Hadley — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:00:29 +0000

Cute games are something I love, and Catstronauts fits the bill of being both cute and being a game where we all work together — which is a big plus. This co-op, two to four player board game has everyone becoming a space cat, equipped with their own character and player board, which has a […]

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Kill Hitler in under 30 mins with Valkyrie: A Black Orchestra Game

Matthew Smail — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:19:54 +0000

Valkyrie: A Black Orchestra Game, designed by Philip DuBarry and published by Tabletop Tycoon, is a fascinating return to one of the most thematically charged cooperative games of the last ten years — but this version has a sharper focus, a shorter playtime, and a design philosophy that feels like a deliberate response to the […]

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AireCon returns to Harrogate: A gaming‑first board‑gaming festival with Yorkshire charm

Matthew Smail — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:18:46 +0000

AireCon, the UK’s only truly gaming‑focused analogue gaming festival, returns to the Harrogate Convention Centre from 12–15 March 2026, bringing four days of open gaming, set-piece tournaments, RPGs and live shows to the heart of North Yorkshire. Unlike trade‑led expos built around product reveals, AireCon’s ethos has always been to play more games with more […]

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This That and Everything – Trivia in Categories

Jupiter Hadley — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:00:39 +0000

Our group does well at trivia style games, as that’s something that can hold our focus during our frequent, but busy, tabletop meet-ups. As we are more casual in what we play, games like this always fit in well. Casual, trivia-based games are often a staple at family gatherings and dinner parties, so we were […]

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Defenders of the Wild: Critter Moon – More Bite, or Just More Fur?

John Hobkinson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:24:21 +0000

When Defenders of the Wild first hit my table, it brought claws, teeth and a fierce identity to the co-operative space. Now, with Critter Moon, the forest fights back with added variety and a small new twist. But is this a howling success, or just more fur on the same frame? From Outlandish Games, Critter […]

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Traitor’s Tide is a push your luck game of treachery on the high seas

Dann Sullivan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:00:55 +0000

Combining both push your luck and hidden role mechanics, Traitor’s Tide is a great warm-up game for three to six players. Traitor’s Tide is a quickfire hidden role board game that puts you and your friends as the crew on a ship, however, at least one of you are a traitor and the traitor ship […]

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Hard Choices, Harder Losses in Defenders of the Wild 2nd Edition

John Hobkinson — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:11:45 +0000

Defenders of the Wild 2.0 is charging toward Kickstarter, and it is not here to ask politely. From Outlandish Games and designed by T.L. Simons and Henry Audubon, Defenders of the Wild 2.0 this is a fierce, uncompromising cooperative experience that looks you square in the eye and asks whether you’re actually ready to live […]

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Company of Heroes: 2nd Edition is a near-perfect rendition of the video game

Matthew Smail — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:25:21 +0000

Company of Heroes: 2nd Edition is one of the most ambitious real‑time‑strategy‑to‑tabletop adaptations that I’ve ever come across, and the latest (second) edition shows just how far Bad Crow Games has gone to refine, rebalance, and expand the original design. It’s a dense, highly tactical World War II wargame that mirrors the structure, pacing, and […]

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Don’t Press That Mine Turtle Uncensored is an non-family friendly expansion for the reptilian truth or dare classic

Rob Covell — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:00:22 +0000

I appreciate that that’s a question of taste more than anything else. Don’t Press That Mine Turtle Uncensored doesn’t care about taste at all, and you’d better be comfortable with the other players if you’re going to wheel this one out.

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Don’t Press That Mine Turtle Reloaded

Rob Covell — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:00:46 +0000

The new cards are really more of the same, so don’t expect a seismic shift in the gameplay. Things like identifying which player most recently pooped, or delivering wedding vows to another player are pretty funny in most situations.

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McDonalds launches it’s own trading cards: McDonald’s Universe

Jupiter Hadley — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:44:07 +0000

Trading cards have been on the rise for quite some time, so it’s no surprise to see new types of cards popping up here and there. Launching at the London Card Show, McDonald’s has created their own set of collectible, trading cards; McDonalds Universe. We got to go along and take a first look at […]

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Don’t Press That Mine Turtle – Will this game blow up?

Rob Covell — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:00:11 +0000

Don’t Press That Mine Turtle is essentially truth or dare. Each player has three cards that have challenges on them that they then set for another player to complete. If the recipient can’t or won’t complete that challenge, they have to press the button on the back of the titular turtle a set number of times.

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Coffee Rush is fast, fun and somehow… Extremely stressful!

Matthew Smail — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:00:54 +0000

Coffee Rush, published by Korea Board Games, is a title that looks deceptively light at first glance — bright colours, cheerful artwork, amazingly overproduced components and a theme built around brewing drinks and serving customers — but once you start playing, you realise it’s a tightly constructed puzzle with a surprising amount of tension. This […]

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Yogi is a quick, silly filler that kids will love

Matthew Smail — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:00:44 +0000

Yogi is a physical (and occasionally hilarious) party game by Bez Shahriari that has most recently been published by Hachette. It challenges players to twist, contort, and balance their way to victory — a bit like a spiritual successor to Twister, but distilled into a deck of cards and a smaller gameplay footprint. At its […]

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21X is like playing Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training, only you can’t play it on the toilet.

John Hobkinson — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:00:05 +0000

21X comes to us from designer Leo Samson and published by Naylor Games, who gave us Sub Terra and Snowdonia: Grand Tour. Now comes their newest project to grant new life to the classic game of blackjack. Like blackjack, the goal of the game is to get a card total of 21, or as […]

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Diver Go! is a slightly uneven but incredibly fun memory game

Matthew Smail — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:00:17 +0000

Diver Go! from Itten and designer Mashiu is a light, family-friendly memory and dexterity game where players dive for treasure coins on the ocean floor — balancing quick observation, recall, and a touch of luck against the mischievous curse of King Octo. It’s a compact design that combines a silly nautical theme with sharp gameplay, […]

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Endangered is a rare and underrated solo or cooperative treat

Matthew Smail — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:00:01 +0000

Endangered, designed by Joe Hopkins and published by Grand Gamers Guild, is a cooperative game that wears its heart entirely and unapologetically on its sleeve. It is about saving animals, yes, but not in a vague, feel-good kind of way. Instead, Endangered focuses on the grind, the politics, and the precariousness of fighting extinction. Underneath […]

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Escape from Project Riese is the serious refinement of the cooperative zombie shooter

Matthew Smail — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:00:56 +0000

Escape from Projekt Riese is a tense, narrative-driven solo/co-op campaign game from Raybox Games that blends tactical combat, horror, and historical fiction into a modular, campaign driven experience that builds on its predecessor, Escape from Stalingrad Z with refined mechanics, deeper storytelling, and the same smart, concise production. Set in 1943 beneath the Owl Mountains […]

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Club Manager – The most authentic football management board game?

Matthew Smail — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:00:57 +0000

Club Manager, designed by Colin Webster, is a football management game that aims to capture the long arc of running a club rather than the moment‑to‑moment tactics of a single match. It’s a game about seasons (up to ten), not an individual fixture; about shaping a squad over years rather than picking a starting eleven […]

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Prepare to wrap up warm as Battle of Hoth hits your table

John Hobkinson — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:00:56 +0000

“Greetings Lord Vader, the shield will be down in moments, you may start your landing.” With that line, Battle of Hoth hits the table, giving players the chance to relive one of Star Wars’ most iconic battles. Published by Days of Wonder and designed by Adrien Martinot and Richard Borg, it’s a fast, accessible skirmish […]

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Moon Colony Bloodbath is one of 2025’s most original games

Matthew Smail — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:00:10 +0000

Moon Colony Bloodbath, designed by Donald X. Vaccharino and published by Rio Grande Games, is a tableau-building and deck-destruction game that thrives on its clever arc of play, tongue-in-cheek retro-futuristic art style, and the way it makes players feel both confident and doomed in equal measure. It can be taught in minutes, played in under […]

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Scope: Panzer is a tactical, two-player battle in a tiny box

Matthew Smail — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:00:50 +0000

SCOPE: Panzer is a fast-playing, two-player World War II tank combat game from Draco Ideas and designer Juan A. Nácher that distills the tension of battlefield ambushes into a tight, 10–15 minute card game of memory, deduction, and positioning. The box is small enough to fit into an overnight or carry-on bag, and there are […]

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Stonemeier Games newest release: Origin Story!

John Hobkinson — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:00:05 +0000

From Stonemeier Games, the company that brought us familiar game shelf favourites such as Wingspan, Scythe and Tapestry; Origin Story is the newest member of their gaming pantheon. Designed by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the world’s most easily known board game designers, and design newcomer Pete Wissinger. Origin Story blends classic card play with a […]

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Zoo Vadis rightly negotiates its way to the top spot for games of this kind

Matthew Smail — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:00:49 +0000

Zoo Vadis by Reiner Knizia and Bitewing Games is a sharp, negotiation-driven strategy game that reimagines Knizia’s classic Quo Vadis with a rather nice animal theme, streamlined rules, and incredible modern production values. We’re reviewing the standard edition here, but it’s worth noting that a deluxe edition exists with upgraded components — and we enjoyed […]

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What’s The Best Thing? is a ranking game where the ranks are hidden

Dann Sullivan — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:00:08 +0000

Rating things is incredibly easy, in fact, we often do it automatically as we think about things. However, What’s The Best Thing? challenges you, as a group, to rank five, then eight, then ten, random things in the correct order, and that’s much trickier. What’s the Best Thing? is a simple game of concealed ranking […]

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The Puzzle – Octopolis by Hungry Minds

John Hobkinson — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:00:48 +0000

From the creative minds at Hungry Minds — the studio behind The Book and The Last Book — comes their latest creation. It’s simply called The Puzzle — Octopolis. I am starting to see a pattern in how they name things. Not the most imaginative series name, sure, but after spending time with it, you quickly realise the series name is definitely […]

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Bomb Busters is one of the best cooperative games in recent years

Matthew Smail — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:00:07 +0000

Bomb Busters from Pegasus Spiele is a fast-paced cooperative deduction game where players work together as a bomb squad, racing against time to cut the right wires and defuse explosives before disaster strikes. It’s a clever and highly replayable game, with an ever-expanding campaign structure that adds new rules steadily, encourages teamwork and demands smart […]

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Gloomies challenges you to strategically grow and harvest flowers

Dann Sullivan — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:00:17 +0000

Gloomies love flowers, they love wearing them and collecting them. Your job is to oversee both the growing and harvesting of the flowers in this two phase, contract-based board game. Before I start, I should state that Gloomies is an incredibly easy game to understand once you’ve got to grips with it. In fact, it’s […]

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Chivalry is Dead: Race for the Crown is great fun – if you approach it the right way!

Matthew Smail — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:57:37 +0000

Chivalry is Dead: Race for the Crown is a fantasy-themed chariot racing game from Naughty Jester Games that blends high-speed competition with chaotic combat, delivering a racing experience that is as much about survival and sabotage as it is about crossing the finish line. Likened by one of the original Kickstarter previewers as the racing […]

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B3’s Ten Best Reviewed Board Game of 2025

Matthew Smail — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:00:20 +0000

2025 was an incredible year for tabletop gaming, with designers pushing boundaries in creativity, storytelling, and mechanical depth. Yet, it was also a year of reprints, re-imaginings and perhaps a retraction in the crowdfunding market that might just be a hint that both publishers and consumers are taking a more conservative approach to their spending. […]

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Tokyo Highway: Rainbow City refines a good dexterity game into a great one

Matthew Smail — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:00:12 +0000

Tokyo Highway: Rainbow City, designed by Naotaka Shimamoto and Yoshiaki Tomioka and published by Itten, is a dexterity game that builds on the minimalist charm of the original Tokyo Highway while adding a splash of colour, a bit more personality and a surprising amount of strategic nuance. It’s still about balancing sticks and placing cars, […]

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Quoridor Pac-Man is nostalgic, but in need of a bit of TLC

Matthew Smail — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:00:06 +0000

Quoridor Pac-Man is a curious hybrid that manifests as part abstract strategy, part arcade homage and if you were just in the market for Quoridor alone, it might be all the more interesting for it. Published by Gigamic, this edition of the classic Quoridor offers two distinct modes of play: the original and well-loved pawn-and-wall […]

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Cascadero offers simple, cutthroat route-building from the legendary Dr Knizia

Matthew Smail — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:00:28 +0000

Cascadero is a clever, spatially-driven tile placement game from Reiner Knizia and Bitewing Games — blending route-building, area control, and cascading bonuses into a tight, interactive puzzle that rewards timing, positioning, and opportunism. Within minutes of our first play, it had immediately reminded me of another Knizia classic that we love — Rebirth. In Cascadero, […]

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Hispania is a small, lavish cooperative conquest simulator that delivers real crunch

Matthew Smail — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:00:06 +0000

Hispania, from Draco Ideas, is a focused and abstract historical strategy game that casts players as Roman praetors (and maybe a consul) tasked with subduing the Iberian Peninsula over the course of two centuries. Hispania is a primarily cooperative game with massively customisable difficulty and asymmetric resistance packed into a tight, hour-long experience that’s far […]

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Flickfleet is one of the smartest dexterity games you’ll play

Matthew Smail — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:00:54 +0000

FlickFleet, designed by Jackson Pope and Paul Willcox and published by Eurydice Games, is a dexterity-driven space skirmish game that swaps dice and cards for finger flicks and acrylic templates. It’s a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously while also being a pretty smart design — and that’s exactly what makes it so engaging. […]

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Pax Illuminaten has you race to form a secret society

Aaron Jones — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:00:43 +0000

In Pax Illuminaten you are an Areopagus of the Illuminati, seeking to grow the order and undermine the authority of the church. Spread your clandestine influence across Bavaria as you recruit the great thinkers and artists of the Enlightenment era into the order. You will plot to grow your web of sympathisers in different factions, gaining favour as you seek to dominate them to ensure you stand highest among the Areopagites.

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Nature is the supreme being of the evolution genre

Matthew Smail — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:00:14 +0000

Nature is a modular, ecosystem-building strategy game from North Star Games and Dominic Crapuchettes that follows on from the popular Evolution and Oceans games which use remarkably similar mechanics. This latest effort offers the most streamlined experience yet thanks to the iterative design, and it’s already available across both physical and digital formats, with modular […]

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Tokaido Duo is smaller and more complex than the original, but it’s also better

Matthew Smail — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:00:29 +0000

Tokaido Duo is a serene but surprisingly crunchy, two-player-only reimagining of the original Tokaido — offering a layered, asymmetric experience that captures the spirit of travel and reflection while introducing previously unexpected strategic depths. We liked the original way back in 2017, but we loved the 2025 Stonemaier reprint even more, so I was curious […]

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Marc Andre’s Middle Ages perfectly enhances the Majesty of KingDomino

Matthew Smail — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:00:23 +0000

Middle Ages, designed by Marc André and published by Studio H, is a masterful blend of familiar mechanics and fresh presentation. Supplied to us by Hachette UK, Middle Ages is the clear spiritual successor to Majesty: For the Realm, but with a tile-drafting mechanic that evokes Kingdomino. The result is a tight, competitive tableau builder […]

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