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Tag: Small Box Games

Meople News: Heroes of the Key

Meople News: Heroes of the Key

11 November, 2016 Kai Weekly News

Fantasy Flight Games With the coming new edition of the DOOM board game, you can have a lot of fun[…]

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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[…]

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Meople News: Sins of the Stone Age

16 February, 2016 Kai Weekly News

GMT Games I appreciate when GMT Games makes non-wargames. I enjoyed all games by them I tried, but the whole[…]

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Meople News: Empire of Goblins

Meople News: Empire of Goblins

9 November, 2015 Kai Weekly News

Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars is full of hostile environments, but the worst of them is probably Hoth, the icy[…]

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Meople News: Jolly Trolls

Meople News: Jolly Trolls

3 April, 2015 Kai Weekly News

Spielworxx / ADC Blackfire Matthias Cramer’s next game Kraftwagen (that’s German for automobile) can be preordered from Spielworxx now. The[…]

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Meople News: Arkham Metropolitan Area

Meople News: Arkham Metropolitan Area

23 January, 2015 Kai Weekly News

MAGE Company Anatolia is the first expansion for MAGE Company’s tile placement game Höyük. The inhabitants of the early settlements[…]

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Meople News: Portal to Space

7 March, 2014 Kai Weekly News

Fantasy Flight Games Warhammer: Diskwars hasn’t been out long, and already there are two expansions coming. And they are big[…]

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Meople News: The War of Pairs

Meople News: The War of Pairs

28 February, 2014 Kai Weekly News

Cheapass Games This is not the first time that I admit to having a giant man-crush on Pat Rothfuss, author[…]

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Meople News: The Legendary Siege of Salem

30 October, 2012 Kai Weekly News

Queen Games German publisher Queen Games has really taken a shine to Kickstarter, yet another project is currently looking for[…]

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Meople News: Night falls on the Aztec Lands

Meople News: Night falls on the Aztec Lands

7 October, 2012 Kai Weekly News

Better late than never, isn’t that what everyone says? We apologize for the delayed Meople News this week, but a[…]

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Older Reviews

  • The Game

    This is the game you will never find on Google. Because the name of the game is The Game, and that’s just not very distinctive. The Game is a cooperative card game that was nominated for the 2015 Spiel des Jahres. It’s small and abstract, but that doesn’t say anything about how much fun it is.

  • Council of Four

    Some countries just don’t manage to form a stable government, but the unnamed kingdom of Council of Four is ridiculous even by those standards. Influential merchants, the players, exchange councilmen in any way that best serves their interest. If the current council can’t be bullied into writing a business permit, they just replace them. And whoever does that best wins the game.

  • Pandemic: On The Brink

    Is fighting the same old diseases getting boring? Saving mankind is just another job for you, and you’re looking for a new challenge? Better get your doctor’s bag ready and your syringe disinfected, because humanity is on the brink of destruction, threatened by virulent diseases, mutation and terrorism.

  • Fields of Arle

    Fields of Arle is Uwe Rosenberg’s love letter to the home of his ancestors, East Frisia and especially the village of Arle. It’s a worker placement game that is unusual in not allowing more than two players, but is equally unusual in the number of options you have and factors to consider. It’s a big game, a long game, and a game that brings many aspects of medieval Frisia to life.

  • Master Thieves

    In an age of boardgames made of cardboard, some games stand out for their material. But a real wood cube as game “board” is not the only thing Master Thieves has to offer: you will also find a good amount of strategy and the greatest challenge to your memory and sense of direction I know about in any recent game.

  • Dixit 2

    Sometimes, game expansion are best when they change nothing at all. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it, as they say.
    Is this nugget of wisdom true for Dixit 2?

  • Race for the Galaxy

    Not the newest game we reviewed recently, Race for the Galaxy was first published in 2007. It’s still a very good and popular game, though and with the new expansion Alien Artifacts coming later this year now is a good time to have a look at it.

  • Forbidden Island

    Thousands of years ago, the Archaean empire was at the height of its power. They created four artefacts that could control the very elements. But power, as everyone learns sooner or later, is no guarantee for survival. And so it is, a long time later, a small group of modern-day adventurers that set out to retrieve the legendary treasures from the Forbidden Island.

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Older Reviews

  • Futschikato / Fuji Flush

    Our first review of a 2016 Essen game is, by necessity, of a light game. We have to play it a couple of times, after all. Futschikato / Fuji Flush, a card game by Friedemann Friese, is as light as any game we ever reviewed, but nevertheless is a really fun game. That’s all thanks to one small twist: low cards can gang up on high cards. No matter how good your card is, you can never feel safe.

  • 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.

  • Shadows over Camelot

    What is your name? – Sir Meepalot.
    What is your quest? – The search for the Holy Grail.
    What is the poker hand you need to beat me? – I don’t know tha AAARRRGGH!
    And it is through the magic of the internet that you have been reading this text in Monty Python voices inside your head. Oh, you wanted to know about Shadows over Camelot?

  • Rococo

    Games about making dresses are a tough sell. Between games about conquest, economic success and survival, tailoring just doesn’t compare. So to stand out, a game about making ballroom gowns needs to excel in other areas. Having well linked games mechanics and a new take on deck-building might do the trick for Rococo.

  • Bora Bora

    Bora Bora, a peaceful place in the pacific ocean. Here men are handsome and elaborately tattooed, women are beautiful and do nothing but collect seashells on the beach and the gods can be swayed to help you with a simple fruit basket. At least, all that is the case in the newest game by Stefan Feld, a game of many difficult decision, evil dice, handsome men with tattoos and … you know the rest. A very intricate game where everything is somehow connected. Bora Bora.

  • Innovation

    Just when you thought that every way to play with cards had been published somewhere already, along comes a game like Innovation. With some – dare I use the word – innovative game mechanics and many ways to make sabotage your opponents’ strategy, you probably haven’t played a card game quite like this one before.

  • The Prodigals Club

    Being rich, influential and groomed for political office, that must be such an incredibly boring life. Why is it that the lower classes get all the fun? Well, you’re not going to let them have it without you, and if you have to get rid of your wealth and your good reputation to join them, then so be it. That’s why you and some equally rich and dimwitted friends started the Prodigals Club, a contest of who can most effectively ruin their future.

  • La Isla

    A mysterious island has recently been discovered in the middle of the ocean. In its own way, it’s a very wealthy island. Not with oil, or gold. The island is home to five species of animal that were thought extinct. And as you set foot on La Isla, your goal is to capture some of them.

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