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Meople News: Hop and Rip

Meople News: Hop and Rip

19 August, 2016 Kai Weekly News

Lautapelit.fi With Dokmus Lautapelit.fi have a very interesting area control game coming. The players explore the island of Dokmus, home[…]

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Meople News: Garden of Tiny Monsters

Meople News: Garden of Tiny Monsters

26 June, 2015 Kai Weekly News

Gamelyn Games Scott Almes’s Tiny Epic Kingdoms are about to become slightly larger and a good deal more epic with[…]

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Meople News: The TV Program of Madness

22 August, 2014 Kai Weekly News

Fantasy Flight Games Very few people would consider more Star Wars games a bad thing, even less so when it’s[…]

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Meople News: Properous Pet Invasion

11 October, 2013 Kai Weekly News

Pandasaurus Games / IDW Games Pandasaurus Games and comic book publisher IDW have partner up to launch IDW Games, a[…]

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Meople News: Flaming Daffodils

Meople News: Flaming Daffodils

11 July, 2013 Kai Weekly News

No news post this week could be complete without the big news of the gaming world: Spiel and Kennerspiel des[…]

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Meople News: Steamy Dungeon Sandbox

Meople News: Steamy Dungeon Sandbox

30 May, 2013 Kai Weekly News

Ystari The new game by Caylus designer William Attia will be available at Gen Con from Asmodee. Spyrium – you[…]

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Meople News: Alone and Unseen

30 January, 2013 Kai Weekly News

Alderac Entertainment In a very evil twist, some of the Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000 previews show up on Facebook[…]

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Meople News: Kingdom of the Serene Cow

29 November, 2012 Kai Weekly News

Repos Production Visitors to the game festival En Jeu in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, had the chance to see the newest 7[…]

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Meople News: Legendary Vampire Ants

Meople News: Legendary Vampire Ants

8 August, 2012 Kai Weekly News

Essen is coming. We still have more than two months to go, but the torrent of announcements has started, and[…]

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Meople News: Defenders of the Pirate Sheep

1 May, 2012 Kai Weekly News

Alderac Entertainment Smash Up, Paul Peterson’s shufflebuilding game – shufflebuilding because you shuffle two decks together, unlike deck-building where you[…]

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Older Reviews

  • Romance of the Nine Empires

    The world of Countermay is an odd place. A multiversal crossroads, people from everywhere wash up here, enigmatic aliens right next to undead Egyptians. In their thousand years of war, the Nine Empires have all but killed Countermay, starvation will be the end for everyone unless one Empire manages to be the last one standing. And that’s where you come in …

  • Blokus

    Yet another easy, quick and very clever game: your only goal in Blokus is to place all your tiles on the board, and the only restriction is that they must touch your other tiles, but only by a corner. Oh, and three other people are trying to do the same and get in your way.

  • Green Deal

    In 2050, running a global enterprise isn’t an easy job. Profit is still the top priority, of course, but because of government regulation and consumer behavior, you can no longer ignore sustainability issues. You either take care of the environment, of your employees and of society as a whole, or all the profits in the world won’t save your company. Balance between those concerns is not always easy, but if you run your company well it’s possible.

  • Old Men of the Forest

    Old Men of the Forest is a charity game: all its profits go to the Orangutan Foundation UK. So don’t think of this as a review, its more a “bringing it to your attention”. You can support the apes – never call them monkeys, they hate that – and gain a light card game in the process.

  • 1984: Animal Farm

    The new world leaders after the 1984 revolution: Pandas, Eagles, Frogs, Bears and Pigs. You may or may not be surprised to learn that, other than the species, nothing has changed. The world is struggling in a five-way Cold War, permanently on the brink of thermonuclear destruction, and your goal in this game is not to save the world and bring lasting peace – except maybe by eliminating the competition. 1984: Animal Farm may be one of the games least conductive to maintaining friendship since Diplomacy.

  • Rattus

    Of all the animals out there, rats and their fleas are the only ones that managed to bring humanity to something that could have become an extinction event: the Black Death. Rattus lets you relive those fun days in the Middle Ages.

  • Anno Domini

    Although we do like our deep, strategic games, not all games have to be that to be fun. In fact, when done well, even very simple games involving trivia knowledge can be a ton of fun.

  • Hanabi

    A very unique card game in more than one way. You’re not only holding your cards the wrong way around, you’ll also be thinking about how you communicate in completely new ways. That’s not bad for a game that only takes 25 cards in the right order to win.

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Older Reviews

  • Okiya

    Looking through the window into the garden, you see two rivalling gangs of geishas fighting for control. Wait. WHAT? The setting doesn’t always have to make much sense for a beautiful game, especially not when it’s a very short and fun abstract.

  • Flash Point: Fire Rescue

    When the call comes in, everything has to happen quickly. Slide down the pole, get on the truck and of you go. Yes, you can now experience the thrill of firefighting in a board game – minus the pole – in Indie Boards and Cards new cooperative game.

  • Patchwork

    Uwe Rosenberg is well known for his deep, complex games like Agricola, Glass Road or Fields of Arle. But those are not all he does, he’s equally skilled at small and deceptively simple looking games. In this one, you don’t have to feed your starving farmers, you don’t work and pray in a monastery, you don’t even sell your vegetables at the gates of Loyang. All you have to do is simply make a patchwork blanket.

  • Strike Dice

    Strike Dice is a game that promises epic conflict and adventure. After all, there are monsters on the box and the game board shows the conflict of Good vs. Evil. Also of Sight vs. Hearing, a conflict that recieves too little attention these days.

  • Tokaido – Collectors’ Edition

    Usually, when a game is about traveling a road, you win by arriving first at the destination. Of course racing is fun, but it’s not the only way to travel. Sometimes, going slowly and enjoying the trip is what you should be doing. Antoine Bauza’s Tokaido rewards that type of travel, here the winner is the player who had the richest experience along the way. That makes Tokaido very different from a racing game, and in the best way, too.

  • HOP!

    Marie Cardouat’s game illustrations have always been in a style fitting for beautiful children’s books, and that is still just as true in HOP!. Beyond the illustrations, the game’s story is equally made for kids. After finding a book describing a magical kingdom in the sky, the child heroes of HOP! decide that they have to see the realm of magical creatures living in the clouds for themselves. And once that decision is made, it is a matter of moments before they are floating into the sky, each carried by a handful of balloons. And just like that you’re in the middle of a dexterity game for the whole family, and prettier than pretty much any other game out there.

  • Mafia City

    In a city where the law is nothing but letters in a book, where not only city hall but even the police itself are under the control of rivaling gangs, in a city where everyone with a bit of importance is wearing a fedora – that’s where you play Mafia City.

  • Orleans

    Thing-building games are still going strong. Deck-building games are the most popular of the bunch, but dice-building games and bag-building games have lots of fans, too. With Orleans one bag-building game has made the Kennerspiel des Jahres nominations this year and it really represents the cream of the genre. To become the most successful leader in medieval France, you need tight management of the followers in your bag.

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