Maybe you have heard the term "snack game" for a game that plays in about fifteen minutes, while you’re waiting for your pizza or for another game to end. Sandwich is a snack game, in all meanings of the expression.
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Québec
Québec is not only a city in Canada any more, it is now also a game about that city. But where games with city names are often variants of other games with some new pictures, Québec introduces new mechanics and really invents a new game, not just renames it.
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Souvlaki Wars
The restaurant business is harsh and the competition is fierce. This city is not big enough for more than one souvlaki restaurant. Souvlaki Wars is more peaceful than the name sounds, but not much.
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Dungeon Fighter
Dungeon crawler games tend to be dice rolling festivals: you find a monster, you throw a die and either you die or the monster dies. Dungeon Fighter is not so different from that, only now you throw the dice on a target, and whether you hit or not is much more important than what face the die shows.
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Halloween 2011
It sounded like such a good idea: pack a basket full of games and take the shortcut through the forest[…]
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Update: Prêt-à-Porter
It’s always a bit difficult to get going after Essen. There is all these new games, but they[…]
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Spiel 2011: Day 3 – A Banquet in the Arctic
Today it was our own fault the day was short – we got up late to go to the fair[…]
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Spiel 2011: Day 2 – Evolved Dungeon Fiefdom
Our hopes for the second day of Essen didn’t quite work out the way we wanted to – first we[…]
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Spiel 2011: Day 1 – A Fistful of Souvlaki
Time flies when you’re having fun and our first day at Essen was much too short. Aren’t they all? Despite[…]
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Prêt-à-Porter
The world of fashion is not a usual setting for boardgames, but Prêt-à-Porter nails it on the first try. It was nominated for Polish Game of the Year this year, and this year the whole world can enjoy the English edition.
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