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Grabbing chips left and right
I played games with my game group after a long break. We played primarily familiar titles: Ark Nova, Krass Kariert, and Tyrants of the Underdark. However, we also gave a new game a try. Family Inc. is a Reiner Knizia title, published by Piatnik in 2021. Like many other Knizia titles, it’s based on an…
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Trendy zookeeping
I’m, of course, talking about Ark Nova, one of the hottest titles at the moment. Designed by first-time designer Mathias Wigge and published by Feuerland Spiele, Ark Nova has been very popular recently. A Finnish game store got a few dozen copies and sold them out immediately. I managed to secure a copy for myself…
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A Feast for Odin on BGA
A Feast for Odin has been available on Board Game Arena for a while now. I’ve been mildly curious since it’s my favourite game. My interest has been diminished by the lack of The Norwegians expansion, which I’m very much used to, but the talk of playing solo games on BGA did sound fascinating. I’ve…
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Escape Team
Escape Team by Fabian Hemmert. I received a free mission pack voucher from the publisher. The Escape Team home page. Elevator pitch: Escape Team is an app-powered escape room puzzle game where you print out all the materials at home. What’s in the box? There’s no box! The game is an iOS or an Android…
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Top 10: 2012 games in 2022
Looking back at 2012, ten years later, it seems like a decent year. It wasn’t hard to come up with a top ten. My top 10: 10. Keyflower. This is an exciting mix of weird auctions and worker placement, and the game works rather well with the whole range from two to six players. That…
Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small, Android: Netrunner, Ghost Blitz, Keyflower, Las Vegas, Le Havre: Inland Port, Lords of Waterdeep, Love Letter, Machi Koro, Merchant of Venus, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, Suburbia, Terra Mystica, The Great Zimbabwe, Tzolk’in, War of the Ring -
The Imperial Pearls
I wasn’t sure what to do about the latest Res Arcana expansion, Perlae Imperii. Then I saw it in the local game store and decided – why not! We haven’t played Res Arcana all that much lately, but I suppose the expansion is just the thing to get us back to artefacts, mages and monuments. We…
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Space merchants
Noticing that I didn’t play Merchant of Venus at all in 2021 made me eager to give it a spin. It didn’t take much to convince Nooa, and we played a game last Saturday. Since we’re experts – whopping three plays for both of us – we played to 4000 credits. It took us maybe…
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Trains on an island: 1860
We started the gaming year 2022 with a game of 1860: Railways on the Isle of Wight. When doing my 2021 review, I noticed I didn’t play any 18xx games in 2021, which I wanted to fix in 2022. Better get started with it, then! My game of choice was 1860 because it’s my favourite…
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Gaming Year 2021
Covid-19. The pandemic got better, and I got the vaccine shots. I returned to the board game cafe meetings in June. Things have become much better. The number of games I played dropped significantly from 2020: from 753 to 481. In hours, I went from 339 to 266. The main reason for this is Nooa,…
A Feast for Odin, Abandon All Artichokes, Altiplano, Anno 1800, Attika, Beyond the Sun, Blue Skies, Coconuts, De Vulgari Eloquentia, Decrypto, Europa Tour, Everdell, Fields of Arle, Fort, Hallertau, Hansa Teutonica, Innovation, Just One, Krass Kariert, L.L.A.M.A., Lands of Galzyr, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Love Letter, Machi Koro, Magic: The Gathering, Maglev Metro, Mahjong, Merchant of Venus, Monikers, Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile, Orléans, Pax Pamir, Pictures, Res Arcana, Second Chance, Similo, Smartphone Inc., So Clover!, Spirit Island, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza, The City, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, The Great Zimbabwe, The Mind, Twin It!, Underwater Cities, UNO, Westphalia