Call to Adventure
Call to Adventure is a hero crafting story game where you are building your character in order to defeat a final adversary via a tableau of cards, which you will select or win during your turns. It has solo, co-operative…
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Board Games
Oathsworn : Into the Deepwood
Oathsworn was one of my most eagerly awaited kickstarters of all time. It is a co-operative campaign storyline game which mixes a city map event phase with subsequent monster battles on a large board. The game can be played either…
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Machina Arcana
Machina Arcana was originally released in 2014 but upgraded and improved with its 2nd edition in 2019, with only minor changes in the 3rd edition which was more aimed towards a new expansion. It is a steampunk themed solo or…
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Bardsung
Bardsung is a co-operative dungeon crawler, with heroes exploring on an expanding tile map. It comes in a huge box containing five hero characters, hobgoblin enemy mobs, wandering encounter monsters and a large boss creature, and has a really nice…
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Marvel Champions
Marvel Champions is a living card solo or co-operative deck construction game released in 2019, where players will take their superhero and aim to thwart an infamous villain. The core box comes with five initial heroes, Spiderman, Iron Man, Black…
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This War of Mine
A survival board game adaptation from a video game, you take control of a group of civilians sheltering in a ruined house in the middle of a war zone and your goal is largely to survive over a series of…
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Nemesis
Nemesis by Awaken Realms arrived in 2018 and provides the experience of the Aliens films in a board game setting. It comes with theme, atmosphere, co-operative play and some secret agendas. The general production quality of this game is amazing, the…
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A Look Back At 2021
This is a summary of the board games that saw my most interest, investment, hobby time, playing and enjoyment in 2021. It is not necessarily a direct reflection of my all time favourite games. This was a year when kickstarter deliveries…
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A Dungeon Crawling Journey
One Friday evening in 1995, i stopped by my local Games Workshop on my way home from work with some time to kill, and there on the shelf was a large box called Warhammer Quest. I looked through the contents…
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Eldritch Horror
Eldritch Horror is a co-operative adventure game, and the follow up to the great Arkham Horror, set in the Lovecraftian world. Where-as Arkham was played within a localised city location, this game zooms its perspective out to feature a world…
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