Re;ACT – The Arts of War is a byzantine title that’s difficult to parse. Why the semicolon and what’s up with “ACT” being capitalized? Beyond any delineative characteristics, the title serves as a clean indicator for the experience within. This is not a breezy or incurious design, rather, Re;ACT is a sophisticated tactical game that…
Tales to Amaze is a substantive shift in perspective. It’s difficult to overstate just how influential this standalone set will be on the Unmatched product line. This release functionally converts everything Unmatched from a head-to-head skirmish conflict into a replete cooperative boss battler. It boasts more character and stronger ambience than anything thus far released…
F28: War Always Changes has been around since 2018. The revised edition since 2021. This self-published ruleset from Karl Bergström, Thor Forsell, and Axel Klingberg has a fanatical yet modest following. Unfortunately, it’s popularity hasn’t quite exploded as perhaps the game deserves. It’s difficult to stand out in the choked bog of figure agnostic miniatures games. This…
Christopher McDowall’s The Doomed is a piercing guitar riff. Something distorted and fuzzy, cutting through a smokey room and blasting eardrums with ferocity. It’s ugly and unclean. It’s heavy. The Doomed is part of the modern wave of agnostic miniatures games that have become increasingly popular in the past decade. Games of this style trace…
Giant mechs beating the hell out of each other in verdant fields. Asymmetrical loadouts and special technology. Weapons expressed through custom decks. Action programming tickled with a dramatic damage system. Vibrant illustrations and inspired mecha designs. What’s not to like? Embryo Machine. This is not a terrible game. Rather, it’s disappointing. Embryo Machine is a…
This is a pretty appealing release. It builds upon the previous Jurassic Park title, InGen vs. Raptors, upping the stakes by including the first large sized Unmatched miniature. In some ways it completes the Jurassic Park setting by filling out the character options and making this property a more robust niche of Unmatched legends. Unfortunately,…
Godtear is not what I expected. It’s tighter and more succinct than the standard Steamforged Games release. The ruleset is very clean and sensible, surprisingly so. Better yet, it manages to avoid any native sense of sterility that is common in stripped down conflict-oriented designs. All things told, this is a fantastic work. Before I…
Gascony’s Legacy is all wrong. In the current climate these types of games come stuffed with minis. Not three or four, but a whole damn tray and even better if there’s a second underneath. Here there’s nary a mini in sight. To snub the prevailing ethos in such a manner is almost offensive. That sense…
Player Elimination 