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Whirling Witchcraft

Whirling Witchcraft from AEG is a fast-playing family game all about resource conversion. 🧙 In this one you aren’t competing for points though! Instead you want to create the most optimal conversion engine to overwhelm your neighboring opponent with resources…. Continue Reading →

A controversial masterpiece

We have been playing Tapestry lately and I have to say, this is a really strange game in my eyes. I can confirm all of its “mistakes” it has gotten some flak for in the board gaming community, and we’ve… Continue Reading →

Solidify your legacy as King of the Gods – An Age Contrived

We were lucky to receive a prototype copy of An Age Contrived and were able to play a few rounds which we really enjoyed, so we wanted to share a few thoughts about the game.  All of these were 2p… Continue Reading →

My personal highlight of 2022: Violet and the Grumpy Nisse

🌙Violet and the Grumpy Nisse🌙 is the strangest game we’ve encountered this year – and in the best way possible! It is a unique game from AGIE Games that caught our attention with its unusual title when browsing through the… Continue Reading →

Euro in Ameri-clothing – A 2-player review of Scythe

Scythe is a game we were always interested in but mostly dismissed with the thought of “it probably doesn’t work well with 2p”. We were wrong!  We played it a lot lately and it definitely works for us. I am… Continue Reading →

Building a city one shake at a time – Shake That City prototype preview

Shake That City is the newest game from AEG coming to Kickstarter in November 2022. It’s a quick-playing spatial puzzle game about building a little city on your 6×6 grid, which ideally should score the most points after 15 rounds…. Continue Reading →

Build a bustling town – one cube at a time!

In Tiny Towns you play as the mayor of a bustling tiny critter city hidden away in the woods. It is a very clever spatial puzzle game all about careful planning and taking risks to eke out more points from… Continue Reading →

ISS Vanguard – strap yourself in, the first wave is here!

ISS Vanguard  is humanity’s first and only spacecraft capable of faster than light travel. It was built over decades using the salvaged technology of a wrecked alien spaceship, after scientists found something truly extraordinary – coordinates hidden in the DNA… Continue Reading →

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