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This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia Designer: Jamey Stegmaier & Alan Stone Year: 2013 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Stonemaier Games It’s interesting to compare Viticulture and Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia from Stonemaier Games. Both are worker placement games and clearly share the same DNA, Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Red Rising Designer: Alexander Schmidt & Jamey Stegmaier Year: 2021 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Stonemaier Games The boardgame Red Rising is based on the series of novels by Pierce Brown, about a future in which the people of our solar system have been color Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: War of the Ring: The Card Game Designer: Ian Brody Year: 2022 Country: Italy Publisher: Ares Games A competitive card game built around the Lord of the Rings trilogy, War of the Ring: The Card Game is also inspired by the War of Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game Expansion: Pegasus Expansion Designer: Corey Konieczka / Daniel Clark, Corey Konieczka & Tim Uren Year: 2008/2009 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is one of the baseline games everyone keeps referencing in my Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Viticulture Designer: Jamey Stegmaier & Alan Stone Year: 2013 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Stonemaier Games One of the traditional qualities of eurogames is that the theme and visuals have to be studiously mild. You can safely bring them out with elderly relatives you don’t Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Hnefatafl Designer: Unknown Year: 400 CE Country: Nordics Publisher: History Craft Ltd Hnefatafl, also known as the Viking Game and King’s Table, is a Northern European boardgame played roughly between the 5th and 18th centuries. Or so I’m reading on Wikipedia, but in Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: The Royal Game of Ur Designer: Unknown Year: 2500 BC Country: Sumeria Publisher: The British Museum Let’s go old school! The Royal Game of Ur is a boardgame played in ancient Mesopotamia and which spread all over the world. The version I have Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Ark Nova Designer: Mathias Wigge Year: 2021 Country: Germany Publisher: Feuerland Spiele According to Boardgamegeek, Ark Nova is the third best boardgame in the world, sharing the top of the ranking list with other similarly complex games. The players run rival zoos, seeking Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Spirit Island Designer: R. Eric Reuss Year: 2017 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Greater Than Games In terms of the ideas it explores, Spirit Island feels like an antidote to games like Settles of Catan. You play as a mighty nature spirit guarding an island Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Alien: Fate of the Nostromo Designer: Scott Rogers Year: 2021 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Ravensburger Ordinarily, when I see a boardgame based on a geek license, I make a series of assumptions. It’s going to be a reskin of some other game with the Continue Reading