Boardgame talk for Meeple & People
Consumable games, games that you play a number of times and then they are over for you, are a new thing. Pioneered by Risk Legacy, the idea has spread. More games are coming with the Legacy system, but that’s not the only way to make a game “expire”. T.I.M.E. Stories tries a different approach, one that leaves the game material unchanged and changes what you know instead.
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Alderac Entertainment A struggle sounds like something long and epic. Which is nice when you have the whole night. But[…]
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You didn’t get your Hogwarts letter, did you? Yeah, me neither. I heard good things about the Elementary College, though. They have the Book of Madness in the library. Yes, THE Book of Madness. I have heard really, really bad things about their health and safety procedures, but they teach their students how to really work together and deal with a crisis. I’ll apply there right now!
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And here we are in 2016. I hope you all transitioned well and had a great holiday season, whichever holiday[…]
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Hello people and meeple! You have probably noticed that we’re on holiday break already. We sincerely hope that you are,[…]
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Plaid Hat Games From the first time we talked about Plaid Hat Games’s dice and card game Ashes: Rise of[…]
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Well, it seems boardgame news are already on holiday break, so this week’s post is shorter than we’re all used[…]
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Legacy games, games where every time you play you make permanent changes to the game, are the big, new thing. Ever since I heard about Risk Legacy, the founder of the genre, I’ve been thinking what other games would work with the addition of Legacy mechanics, and Pandemic was at the top of that list. Now there is Pandemic Legacy, and we all finally get to find out if I was right.
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FryxGames One thing is true about practically everything to do with zombies: there are always more of them, and the[…]
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Some games are huge and take a long time to play. Others are smaller and quicker. And then there are some games that advertise themselves as mini games: small box, small rules, short play time – all the fun. Iello have their own product line of such games, and Welcome to the Dungeon is one of them. A quick and simple bluffing game that has little in common with dungeon crawling style games, you will try to get the hero killed more often than you help him succeed.
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