Skip to content
Meople's Magazine

Boardgame talk for Meeple & People

  • Home
  • Reviews
    • Video Reviews
    • Abstract Games
    • Auction Games
    • Card Games
    • Cooperative Games
    • Deduction games
    • Dice games
    • Family Games
    • Negotiation Games
    • Strategy Games
    • Worker-placement Games
    • All reviews
  • Articles
    • Meeplepedia
    • Nostalgia
    • First impressions
    • Meople Comics
    • All articles
  • News
  • About us
  • FAQ
  • Contact

Tag: Matagot

Meople News: Shining Blood on Martian Sand

31 May, 2020 Kai Weekly News

The Op I can’t find a rulebook for any of the Coded Chronicles games yet, The Op’s series of escape[…]

Read more

Meople News: A Low and Edgy Princess

16 February, 2018 Kai Weekly News

Matagot Princess Jing, the coming game by Roberto Fraga and Editions Matagot, is a two player game in the family[…]

Read more

Meople News: The Silent Sky

26 January, 2018 Kai Weekly News

Alderac Building a more successful guild than the other players is only part of your problem in Alderac’s Edge of[…]

Read more
Meople News: Great Old Cherry Trees

Meople News: Great Old Cherry Trees

29 July, 2017 Kai Weekly News

Matagot Captain Sonar is a pretty brilliant brilliant. Two teams, each the crew of a submarine, go head to head[…]

Read more

Meople News: Canadian Secrets

7 July, 2017 Kai Weekly News

Libellud Finding out how the ghost of Warwick Manor died is tough. If you don’t know Mysterium, it’s a murder[…]

Read more

Meople News: Skyway to Hell

7 October, 2016 Kai Weekly News

Queen Games Queen Games will release an unusually constructive post-apocalyptic game. It’s not about scavenging, stealing from the other players[…]

Read more

Meople News: Undercover in the sun

2 September, 2016 Kai Weekly News

Alderac Mystic Vale, Alderac’s “card crafting” game – a game where you overlay cards with transparent parts to create the[…]

Read more
Meople News: Gondola to the Universe

Meople News: Gondola to the Universe

12 August, 2016 Kai Weekly News

Fantasy Flight Games That’s another blast from the past: Fantasy Flight Games have announced a new edition of DOOM: The[…]

Read more

Meople News: Mystery of Gods and Angels

5 August, 2016 Kai Weekly News

Wow. One week of vacation and the whole boardgame world goes crazy posting news. So I hope you have a[…]

Read more

Meople News: The Wrecked God Quartet

22 July, 2016 Kai Weekly News

The winners of Spiel and Kennerspiel des Jahres were announced this week, and it’s a surprise in both categories. Not[…]

Read more

Posts navigation

1 2 3 Next Posts»
  • View meoplesmagazine’s profile on Facebook
  • View meoplesmagazine’s profile on Twitter
  • View meoplesmagazine’s profile on Instagram
  • View ../meoplesmagazine’s profile on YouTube
  • View meoplesmagazine’s profile on Google+
  • View meoplesmagazine’s profile on Flickr

Tweet the Meeple

My Tweets

Older Reviews

  • Final Frontier

    Expensive game components, the final frontier for board game publisher. These are the games of Victory Point Games. Their continuing mission: to bring you new games, to seek out new authors, new genres, to boldly ship their games in a ziploc bag.
    You guessed it, Final Frontier is a science fiction game that keeps referencing a certain TV series. But is a good theme and paper components in a ziploc game enough to make a great game?

  • The Agents

    When a big secret agency shuts down, many shady people suddenly find themselves unemployed. The Agency was the biggest secret agency there was, and dealing with their leftover agents to make a profit is your job in The Agents.

  • Potion Explosion

    The Horribilorum Sorcery Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards, yet another institute of magical learning that not only ignores safety procedures, it’s probably using the handbook to start a fire. This time, students have to sit their Potions exam with ingredients from a rickety, old ingredient dispenser and a professor that actively encourages them to cause explosions in that thing and to drink their own potions they just created to see if they work. Realistically, this game is not about winning, it’s about surviving!

  • Shakespeare: The Bard Game

    Some games are not created to entertain boardgamers, they are made to add some spice to some other hobby – usually, those games are either trivia games or roll-and-move races. Shakespeare: The Bard Game goes beyond that and creates an actual game around those two elements.

  • Illegal

    Games let you play different roles and do things that you wouldn’t do in real life. At least I assume most people playing necromancers in a fantasy RPG, for instance, don’t mess around with the dead in real life. I’ll also assume that most people playing Christope Boelinger’s Illegal don’t really deal with drugs or weapons. That’s the role you take in this adults only party game: that of a distasteful criminal trading his illegal goods for other goods.

  • The Kingdoms of Crusaders

    The Crusades, the attempt to conquer Jerusalem for Christianity, were a bloody period of war. They’re a prime setting for wargames – I’m sure a few have been made – but finding a card game in the setting did surprise me. With a unique illustration style and a simple area majority mechanic, it’s an unusual take on the Crusades.

  • Oceanos

    Jacques Cousteau awakened the fascination for the submarine world in many of us. His film productions present the wonders hidden under the surface of the ocean, and yet they awaken curiosity for more. I think Monsieur Cousteau would approve of the way fellow Frenchman Antoine Bauza presents the underwater world in his game Oceanos: not as a place for warfare, like many games have done before, but as the object of curious discovery.

  • Codenames

    I still think Vlaada Chvátil has this little check list on his desk where he goes “Oh, here’s a genre I didn’t make a game in yet” and then just sets out to design a game for that genre. And whatever genre he picks, he’s good at it. The latest example of that is Codenames, a word association game. And if you think that word games are boring, like I did, then maybe Vlaada can change your mind.

RSS Meople's Magazine

  • Meople News: Journeying the Shadow Roads
  • Meople News: The State of the Situation
  • Meople News: Reality-bending Heist
  • Cartographers
  • Meople News: Dreadful Humours
  • Meople News: Who run Krakentown?
  • Essen 2020 – SPIEL.digital
  • Meople News: Lost Hops, Veiled Cabbage
  • Meople News: Study the High Laws
  • Meople News: The Last Farm Fighter
WordPress Theme: Poseidon by ThemeZee.