Review by Matt S. Steam: Rails to Riches is a perfectly competent board game, which works well enough on Nintendo Switch. It’s no Wingspan, which is both a masterful board game and plays beautifully on Switch. It’s also not the board game I wanted to see most on Switch (where’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The good people at EastAsiaSoft seem determined to singlehandedly bring every budget fan service game to the Nintendo Switch. Note, though, I’m not complaining (I’ve got a visual novel to pitch your way, BTW. Hit me up). Poker Pretty Girls Battle: Fantasy World Edition is the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Look, I know The Game Of Life is just a board game and so on and so forth, but in some ways it makes me genuinely uncomfortable. The way it abstracts a person’s progress through life is very much about upholding and celebrating the status quo,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If you’ve ever played the Arkham Horror physical board game, then you should be very much looking forward to Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace, as a digital adaptation of that most excellent game. It’s being published by board game specialise, Asmodee Digital, and now has a release…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The Nintendo Switch has ended up becoming quite the home for digital board games. It does make sense given the console is portable and has multiplayer built right into the device with the Joycons allowing two people to play instantly. What’s great to see is just…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I never used to be a big fan of birds, but then after moving to my current place (the first place I’ve had in years with a backyard and garden), a small flock of cockatoos started hanging around, so I started to feed them a handful…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. In the six years since the board game Evolution first landed in stores, it has grown rapidly in stature and prominence. It’s a commercial hit and, as the game’s website proudly proclaims, it’s even drawn the attention and respect of the scientific community for the way…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Go is complex. Very, very complex. Just how complex? Well, let’s allow the American Go Association explain it: “There are many more possible Go games – 10 followed by more than 300 zeroes — than there are subatomic particles in the known universe. Unlike many other…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Go is the ultimate board game – easy to learn, having been around for however many thousands of years, but almost impossible to master, and so deep that entire libraries have been written about the game and its strategies. Despite its stature, we haven’t seen Go…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Some developer decided to release Snakes & Ladders on the Nintendo Switch at the same time that Nintendo released its own 51 Worldwide Games (or Clubhouse Games, depending on where you are in the world). That was a very silly thing to do. Sure, Snakes &…
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