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A gateway game of trains
Station to Station • 2 min read

A gateway game of trains

Attention, train fans! 🚂 Station to Station is a gateway/family game of contract fulfilment with pick-up-and-deliver gameplay. Players are owners...
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Spiel 2024 preview 3
Spiel 2024 • 2 min read

Spiel 2024 preview 3

This week is Spiel time!! Finally! We can barely contain our excitement, so we had to come up with another...
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Four ancient games of Africa
Ludos: Africa • 3 min read

Four ancient games of Africa

With all the Spiel preparations going on, let’s slow down a bit and take a closer look at Ludos...
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Vying for the favor of the Elders
Thingstead • 2 min read

Vying for the favor of the Elders

The elders are gathering at the Thingstead and a new chieftain is soon about to be announced - but who...
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Card drafting and tableau-buildings in its purest form
AI: 100% Human • 2 min read

Card drafting and tableau-buildings in its purest form

🤖AI: 100% Human is a card-drafting and tableau-building game in its purest form. It’s all about choosing the right...
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Spiel 2024 preview 2
Spiel 2024 • 3 min read

Spiel 2024 preview 2

Let’s look at some more games in preparation for Spiel'24 ! The lists of everyone are surely already...
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A ladder climbing duel of two Chinese clans
Chu Han • 3 min read

A ladder climbing duel of two Chinese clans

🎎 Chu Han from Matagot is a ladder-climbing & card-shedding game - a genre of card games that we really fell...
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A family game of tile-laying, drafting and memory
Pfad der Elemente • 2 min read

A family game of tile-laying, drafting and memory

🌬️Pfad der Elemente (aka. Path of Elements) by @apex_ideenschmiede is a family game combining tile-laying, drafting, memory and pattern...
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Logical deduction for families?
Little Alchemists • 2 min read

Logical deduction for families?

⚗️Little Alchemists is a family friendly version of Alchemists. The main difference, aside from the reduced complexity, is the absence...
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The Apocalypse never felt so good
Phoenix New Horizon • 7 min read

The Apocalypse never felt so good

The cover art was the first thing that drew me towards Phoenix New Horizon. Of course a picture alone isn’...
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The beautiful greens of forests and plants
Canopy: Evergreen • 2 min read

The beautiful greens of forests and plants

🌲 Canopy Evergreen is a nature themed gateway game about building a forest. The presentation deserves an immediate mention: it is...
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In pursuit of effectiveness
Minecart Town • 2 min read

In pursuit of effectiveness

🛤️ Minecart Town is a tranquil little tile-laying game about building a town that is basically an automated point-generating machine. During...
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