Board Games

Showcasing Bloodborne The Board Game by CMON

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General introduction: In Bloodborne: The Board Game, players take on the role of Hunters. They will fight together to uncover the hidden mysteries of Yharnam city and beyond. With unique trick weapons, each with different forms and powers, Hunters must quickly think and adjust their tactics. They have to overcome the multitude of enemies that stand in their way. Learn its behavior, exploit its weakness and defeat it! Featuring unique card-based combat, with few luck … Read more

Cape May – Queen of Seaside resorts

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In the early 19th century, Cape May – a city at the southern tip of Cape May County, New Jersey – emerged as one of the famous coastal tourist areas of the East Coast of the United States. During the 19th century, the city experienced various fires, especially the Great Fire of 1878. During the rebuilding of the city, the council decided to keep the Victorian architecture intact. That has helped Cape May become one … Read more

The Art Of Expanding Railroad Network – Imperial Steam

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“The industrial age is beginning to explode. You need more workers for your factories, and you need more workers to build tracks to expand your rail network.” – Capstone Games When I first heard about Imperial Steam, the first impression was still just “Oh, another route building game with pickup-&-deliver? Railways to .. series again?”. After learning that the designer is Huemer (the designer of the Lignum series), I decided to give this one a … Read more

Tabannusi – Builders of UR

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Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located in what is now Tell el-Muqayyar (Arabic: تل المقير) in the Dhi Qar province of southern Iraq. The city dates back to the Ubaid period (about 3800 BC), and has a recorded history dating back to the 26th century BC. OVERVIEW There are 5 different ares on the game board. There are 3 areas focus on city building, one harbor construction area and 1 Ziggurat … Read more

CoderMarz – The Coding game to the planet Red

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The Red Planet has been a trendy topic worldwide for the last couple of years. Space X even launched project Mars & Beyond. They portray how ambitious, adventurous we are; especially in finding a new home. Speaking of terraforming Mars, board game is also not an exception. There have been so many games on the market that are related to this topic. However, most of them have one minor problems: a huge learning curve for … Read more

Outwit and outmatch your military opponent in Air, Land & Sea

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War themed game seems to be one of the most intimidated board games. They are either too dry, or have too many fiddly rules to resolve conflicts. However, Jon Perry delivered one of the most accessible war themed games to board game lovers: Air, Land & Sea. I-How to play. This is a two-player game. In the game, each person will be a leader of a faction to control 3 Theaters of War: land, sky … Read more

Sweet Dreams with Sheepy Time Game

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One of the most effective ways to fall asleep is counting sheep jumping over a fence. Today, I’ll bring you Sheepy Time from AEG publisher. In the game, players will be the Dream Sheep, the one that people often count to drift into the land of dreams. Each time the sheep jumps over the fence, the player will fall asleep more easily. But somewhere in that dark corner, there is still the ghost of Nightmare … Read more

Overview of Tekhenu- Obelisk of the Sun Board Game

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Overview The game is set in ancient Egypt. In the game, there is an obelisk, and an area to trigger the action. These 6 areas represent the 6 Ancient Egyptian Gods. In their turn,  players will take the dice of any area to do the action of that God. Otherwise, they can use the dice to produce the corresponding resource. Each area has 3 lands, Forbidden Land, Contaminated Land, and Pure Land. There are 5 … Read more

Merchants Cove – Merchants of The Five Realms

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Since 2016, Final Frontier Game has hatched a bold plan of its own, building a universe in it with many different titles and different gameplay. More than just a collection of games with the same theme like the ALEA collection, Final Frontier Game simply wants to create a connection between games, like how Ryan Laukat did with the world of Arzium 2021 welcomes the newest game in the Five Realms universe – Merchants Cove. In … Read more

Corrosion – The Race Against Rusted Machines

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Corrosion Overview Smiling, you stand in the center of your factory: the sweet sounds of metal clattering and engines rattling are warming your entrepreneurial heart. Your goal is to build diversified scoring and production engines in order to outrival the other factory owners. However, in the steam-filled air, your biggest enemy is time, because most machines and gears rust away quickly. So you are well advised to also produce rustproof chrome gears and invest in … Read more

World of Warcraft: Wrath of Lich King – The King is Back in a Pandemic Style 

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In today’s article, I will make a small comparison between the newest Pandemic Game System, World Of Warcraft – Wrath of Lich King and the classic Pandemic. What are the differences ? Which one will suit you more? Themes: In Pandemic, the Earth suffers from not one but four different diseases represented by four colors (blue, black, red and yellow). Players must take on the role of one of the essential professions to save humanity. … Read more

Expedition to NewDale – The Story Continues in the Kingdom of Longdale

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Introduction to Newdale When mentioning Alexander Pfister, many people will think of the Western cowboys in the Great Western Trail, or economicizing Africa with Mombasa, or controlling chaos in Blackout: Hong Kong. But it is impossible to not to mention lighter games like Port Royal or especially Oh My Goods! ***Oh My Goods*** brings an extremely excited feelings to players. The feeling that players try their luck in drawing cards, until they find cards that … Read more

Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria – Welcome to the Dark Side

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Daily Magic Games welcomes players back to Valeria Kingdoms. In this game, the player will enter one of the different Monster clans in the kingdom of Valeria. The player’s goal is to flaunt his power against other Monster Clans to claim the kingdom of Valeria’s Shadow Realm. How to play – The main mechanism of the game is Worker Placement. However, it’s slightly different that the player has only one worker in the whole game. … Read more

Khora – Rise of an Empire the Game

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Overview In Khora, each player is the head of the ancient Greek city empire. Each turn, you perform 2 of 7 actions, combined with the dice rolling mechanism to create an effective strategy to grow the empire – Philosophy – Legislation (Law) – Culture (Culture) – Trade – Military (Military) – Politics (Politics) – Development (Development) In addition, the player must choose to develop the city in favor of aspects such as Economy (promoting Taxes … Read more

New Bedford – A Game of Whaling and Town Building

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 Knowledge section New Bedford is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts in the United States. This city has about 100k households (based on 2020 statistics). New Bedford has another nickname, Whaling City (whaling city). In the 19th century, New Bedford was one of the most important whale ports in the world along with Nantucket, MA and New London, CT. Around 1840, New Bedford was once the richest city in the world. In 1927, New Bedford … Read more

Dune – The Return of a New Classic

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This is not an expansion of Dune : Imperium from Dire Wolf studio. This game is one of the latest games from Gale Force Nine for 2-4 players. It is also a remake of Dune 197x as well as a more concise version of Dune 2019. In Dune, you’ll take control of one of four major factions — House Atreides, House Harkonnen, Fremen, and Imperium — all of which compete for control of the universe’s … Read more

Be a Classy Merchant in Splendor

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Splendor Game Intro Splendor by far has the simplest and cleanest rulebook. The actions are very straightforward. One is selecting the tokens (3 of the different colors, or 2 of the same colors). The second one is reserving a development card (and get a joker token – which is a wild token). Or the third one is building a development card (either from your hand, or any card on the table). Building a development card … Read more

Majestic Tug of War with Royal Visit

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WHAT GAME IS THIS? Royal Visit (“Hail Majesty!”) is from IELLO publisher. This is also a retheme from the Times Square series of publisher KOSMOS. This is an abstract strategy game with tug-of-war and hand management. Two players will try to move pieces and invite the king to visit their castle, using the cards in their hand as well as the functions of the cards on the board. On a 17-square chess board (1 center … Read more

The Art of Trick Taking – The Crew the Quest for Planet Nine

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Game Terminologies (1) Trick-taking : When doing a trick, the player must play cards of the same suit . It can be same color, same type,  depending on the game. In the Crew, the same suit means the same color. The trick’s color set will depend on the first player. If there are no cards of the same suit, the player can play 1 card of another suit or 1 rocket card. The player with … Read more

Enjoy a beautiful hike across National Parks with PARKS Board Game

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WHAT GAME IS THIS? PARKS (“Park”) is a set collection, worker placement and little card drafting game. PARKS  comes from publisher Keymaster. Moreover, it is in partnership with the Fifty-Nine Parks project, a project to honor and preserve national parks in the United States. In the game, players will move their meeple (in PARKS, Hikers) on a road trip through the four seasons of the year, gathering resources and visiting national parks. How to play … Read more