Blogs about Board games

It's A Wonderful WorldBoardGameGeekrank: 154rating: 7.7published: 2019designer: Frédéric GuérardPrint Statusin printWhy It's On The ListA slightly more gamer-y 7 Wonders-ish card drafting game of civilization building... but that description sounds like damning with faint praise. …

I created a couple of “Mikko’s best years of games” geeklists in 2020 and 2021. I remembered those lists yesterday and created an update – this is an easy list to create, so it didn’t …

The Game Gloomhaven was once the #1 game on BoardGameGeek.com. Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion is a standalone game set in the same universe and not an expansion. It uses similar mechanisms and is slightly …

Monkey Business is a bit of a mash-up of the classic games of charades (where you pantomime something) and werewolf (where you’re trying to discover the odd person out in the mix. All but one …

Arcs is the most lucid title Cole Wehrle has created — and that’s speaking for someone whose ludography is packed with crisp thesis statements. It’s come such a long way in the two years since …

I enjoy keeping my finger on the pulse, checking out what new games get released, what new mechanisms or themes get introduced to the hobby. As someone who writes about games, it’s gratifying to do …

I played almost no new games. The Guild of Merchant Explorers is a small and somewhat lovely “each player places their pieces after the same draw” (ala Take It Easy), but each player gets unique …

Ever since the double-whammy of ‘having kids’ and ‘global pandemic’, I haven’t been going to board game nights at game stores that much. To regain some of my exposure to new game releases, I tend …