Dominant Species is on the upper end of long and heavy games for us – not something you unpack at the end of the gaming night, just before people go home. There is a lot of depth and a lot of detail to explore here.
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The Gamer Files: Kingmaker
The Gamer Files. A sort of Brehm’s Life of Animals of board gamers by our newest contributor Tine. Tine is[…]
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Perfect Information
Perfect Information is a term from game theory, the mathematical field concerned with modelling strategic decision making, ingames as well[…]
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Spiel des Jahres 2011 – The Winners
The jury has chosen, the winners for this year’s Spiel des Jahres and for the first ever Kennerspiel des Jahres[…]
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Asara
Asara, the city of spires. The Caliph has called 4 famous architects to give the city more spires, higher spires, more colourful spires. In only four years, we are to fill the city with soaring towers, but funds and workers are limited.
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Senet
Boardgames are not a recent phenomenon. I’m sure I’m not telling you anything new with that; I’m not thinking of[…]
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Meeple’s Adventures: Crouching tiger hidden meeple
“You can not yet wield the blade of Xiangqi”, Meep Bai yelled. “It’s true, your skill surpasses that of any[…]
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Haggis
Haggis the card game has about as much to do with the Scottish national dish as Tichu the Chinese card game has with China. Haggis the card game does have a whole lot to do with Tichu the card game, but with enough differences to make it an interesting game although you might know Tichu already.
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Roll and Move
Roll-and-move games are, for many of us, the first boardgames we ever played. From all boardgames, pure roll-and-move games have[…]
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Meeple’s Adventures: Detoured
Do you know the feeling? You’re driving your steam train north towards Duluth, whistling a merry tune when suddenly the[…]
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