…that I could just leave it. I’ve been posting more here on this blog to a smaller audience, but at least the posts here remain available and easy to find with search engines for years to come. Focusing on games I know. Previously, the smallest number of new games I’ve played in a year was…
The game: On Tour by Chad DeShon. The game was published by BoardGameTables.com in 2019 after a successful Kickstarter campaign. I received a review copy of the game from BoardGameTables.com. Elevator pitch: A lavishly produced roll and write game where you plan a tour of United States for your band. What’s in the box? A…
Phil Schwarzmann from Finland for Thought, who you also might know from Spielfrieks or BoardGameGeek, hosts a weekly live podcast called Radio Free Finland. Every week he interviews some guests about a topic or other, and this week I was on the show. We talked about board games, Finnish blogosphere and my experiences in Who…
…skeletal game. There’s little flavour, all locomotive models for example are identical: their production cost is twice their income and their design cost is twice the production cost. Only prices and types vary. The market is the heart of the game. The locomotives are divided in four types. In each type, the latest model in…
…the rest of the components don’t fit as well. The art in the game has a consistent feel and is fine. The component materials are good: the player boards paper, not cardboard, but are made of a slightly unusual material that has a slightly rough feel to it. It should increase the friction between the…
I’ve been offered 100 euros for my copy of Hammer of the Scots. Reason is, of course, the decision made by Columbia Games: “To improve product output and customer service, all Columbia Games products will henceforth be sold ONLY by mail order, telephone, or via www.columbiagames.com.” Which is of course nice, except when you live…
…questions. “What do you see when you look around?”, “When was the last time you went home?”, whatever comes to mind. It’s a balancing act: the spy needs to blend in, while the other players must ask questions that are specific enough to be hard to answer correctly, without giving out the location. We had…
…Error, and many of them are free traditional games. The four-player card game corner is crowded with good games, and Margin for Error doesn’t stand out. Great visual appeal could’ve made a difference, but no — it’s not downright ugly, but the game art is very dull. When (or if) I play the game, I’ll…
…2020, I expect I’ll sell less games, but I again aim to reduce my purchases. Top 100 and 50×50. I did another top 100 list. My fifty by fifty list wasn’t quite as successful as last year, but I did add couple of items to it, and there’s more to come. Pelaajien valinta. I skipped…