I recently got the chance to play the introductory quest of Slide Quest with my 5 year old daughter – check out this review/interview to see how she liked it! (Some of my thoughts are below the video, in boring old text form.) Slide Quest is an ingeniously simple game. You roll a knight around a board, maneuvering around obstacles …
Full Moveable Type Review What hasn’t been done in word games? Word games – here we’re referring to games where you’re dealing with the letters of words, rather than guessing or naming words based on clues/criteria – are one of the best known genres of tabletop games in existence. Nearly anyone who knows any board game has played Scrabble, probably …
Full Hatsuden Review Quick, exciting 2-player games can be a wonderful thing. In 15 minutes you can have a vicious battle of wits, develop powerful combos, and use your limited time and resources to execute your plan just before your opponent. As a gaming couple, we love games like Blokus Duo, Summoner Wars, or Greedy Kingdoms that can provide these …
Full Show & Tile Review A great party game needs an obvious hook, minimal rules overhead, and memorable, laughable moments. Show & Tile easily checks off every one of those boxes. The hook: Pictionary, but with Tangrams. Learning the game is extremely intuitive for anyone who’s played any party game. The entire rules section of the single-fold rulebook fits within …
Tim: Kayleigh and I love playing games together. When we had the opportunity to review a new two-player game, we were excited – and even moreso once we saw this new game was a reworking of a 2009 game that I’d had my eye on for a while. I knew that Greedy Kingdoms was a head-to-head card game with a …