While I couldn’t muster up much enthusiasm for another recent entry in the Dice Tower Essentials line, ito is an entirely different story. This Arcane Wonders party game doesn’t look like much. It’s a small box holding two decks of cards; one comprised of numbers and another with various sentences. In the midst of play,…
Alien as a party game. As David St. Hubbins epitaph reads, “…and why not?” Arriving at a perfect time alongside the excellent Alien: Romulus, designer Ivan Turner’s This Game Is KILLER presents a brutal and humorous take on Ridley Scott’s classic science fiction film. It does so in a violent 15 minutes while supporting up…
Look, Kasper Lapp’s Fun Facts is nominated for the prestigious 2023 Spiel Des Jahres, but it’s not going to win. That doesn’t matter. A loss doesn’t diminish this absolutely fantastic release. Similar to Repos Productions’ previous breakout hit, Just One, this title slots into a very rare category of cooperative party game. It also happens…
I don’t write about party games nearly as often as I play them. This is partially because it’s difficult to analyze this type of game through the lens of philosophy or as an introspective revelation of the self. It’s difficult to say anything interesting at all really. These products are simple things designed to scrape…
Player Elimination 