Tidal Blades 2: Rise of the Unfolders is a grand campaign adventure game with the same genealogy as Kinfire Chronicles, Oathsworn, and Descent: Legends of the Dark. This type of game has really taken off in the crowdfunding space and we owe much of it to the success of Gloomhaven. New titles spring into existence…
Shem Phillips’ Legacy of Yu has captured my attention. I’ve been playing a lot of it lately. It’s a stylish board game from Renegade that is unique in the designer’s oeuvre in that it’s only playable solitaire. It bears Sam Phillips handsome illustrations, and it looks like it’d fit right in with all of Shem’s…
This is a thing of foolishness. Marcin Welnicki’s boss battler is an absurd 300 hours of content. It’s hundreds of dollars. The box is unreasonably large, oblong, and shining white. It’s like prying open the Ark of the Covenant. And Aeon Trespass: Odyssey will melt your face, whether you’re a Nazi or not. Once you’ve…
Undaunted: Stalingrad is a powerful experience. It takes Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson’s acclaimed system and marries it to a campaign format that is engrossing and transcendent. The battle of Stalingrad is captured with such purpose and intimacy that I felt as if I was wandering through an HBO miniseries immersed in dramatic action. I’ve…
The Hunters is a big game. It unfolds across the table with swollen cardboard limbs. It spits hundreds of cards in all directions, cards to represent locations, enemies, and story. No speck of surface is left unsoiled. In fact, you may not even be able to fit it all on your table. Such is life…
There is a complex logos at work in Triton Noir’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice. The elaboration is not found in the fairly lean ruleset, an evolution of the stealth mechanisms found in the sublime V-Sabotage (formerly V-Commandos), rather, it’s embedded in the larger arrangement of expansive content and its tenuous relationship with physical capacity.…
Player Elimination 