This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Kluster Designer: Paula Henning & Robert Henning Year: 2018 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Borderline Editions Magnets are fun. The invisible fields of attraction and repulsion still feel as compelling as they did when I was a child playing around with them. Kluster is a Continue Reading
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100 Boardgames: Azul (29/100)
This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Azul Designer: Michael Kiesling Year: 2017 Country: Germany Publisher: Next Move Games As a result of my project to play 100 new boardgames, I wondered about what it meant for a boardgame to be beautiful. What is beauty in this context? I asked Continue Reading
100 Boardgames (28/100) / Research Blog Antarctica #183: The Thing – The Boardgame
This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: The Thing: The Boardgame Designer: Davide Corsi & Andrea Crespi Year: 2022 Country: Italy Publisher: Pendragon Game Studio The Thing: The Boardgame is based on John Carpenter’s classic scifi horror film The Thing in which the staff of an Antarctic research base attempt Continue Reading
100 Boardgames: Gaia Project (27/100)
This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Gaia Project Designer: Jens Drögemüller & Helge Ostertag Year: 2017 Country: Germany Publisher: Feuerland Spiele Gaia Project is a scifi-themed reimplementation of Terra Mystica, a game I also played recently. The players each represent a species seeking to make the galaxy livable for Continue Reading
100 Boardgames: Gift Trap (26/100)
This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Gift Trap Designer: Nick Keller Year: 2006 Country: U.K. Publisher: GiftTRAP Enterprises Gift Trap is a very seasonally appropriate party game in which you win by choosing the right gifts for your friends and also by being obvious about what sort of gifts Continue Reading
100 Boardgames: Zombicide – 2nd Edition (25/100)
This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Zombicide: 2nd Edition Designer: Raphaël Guiton, Jean-Baptiste Lullien & Nicolas Raoult Year: 2021 Country: France Publisher: CMON The first Zombicide game I’ve played was Undead or Alive, but I wanted to try out the base game as well just to get a feel Continue Reading
100 Boardgames: Slay the Spire: The Board Game (24/100)
This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Slay the Spire: The Board Game Designer: Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti & Casey Yano Year: 2024 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Contention Games Slay the Spire is a 2019 digital game, a roguelike deckbuilder in which you play a fantasy hero trying to ascent a Continue Reading
100 Boardgames: Terra Mystica (23/100)
This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Terra Mystica Designer: Jens Drögemüller & Helge Ostertag Year: 2012 Country: Germany Publisher: Feuerland Spiele There are two types of games, those which incorporate luck and those where the players have access to full information about every aspect at all times. Most hobby Continue Reading
100 Boardgames: Agricola (Revised Edition) (22/100)
This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Agricola (Revised Edition) Designer: Uwe Rosenberg Year: 2016 Country: Germany Publisher: Lautapelit.fi One of the criteria I have for choosing specific games is if they come up in discussions about boardgames as examples or benchmarks. Agricola is one such game. I’ve seen it Continue Reading
100 Boardgames: Unfathomable – From the Abyss (21/100)
This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Unfathomable Expansion: From the Abyss Designer: Tony Fanchi/Alexandar Ortloff-Tang Year: 2021/2024 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Unfathomable is a reimplementation of the boardgame Battlestar Galactica which I played recently as part of this study project. With Battlestar Galactica, it looks like the Continue Reading