What happens when you take Monopoly and Magic: The Gathering and smoosh them together? Culdcept. Culdcept is what happens. It’s perhaps a marriage between two very different genres of board game that no one really asked for, but the series has been around since 1997 and the Sega Saturn, so it clearly has some kind of audience (me, I’m the…
Dungeons & Dragons is great. Really, really great. But it’s a massive time sink and even bigger commitment from the entire group. The last couple of times I’ve tried to get in on a D&D campaign, it has fizzled out once people started to get busy with work, weekends, or…
I love when an announcement comes out of nowhere and gets you…
People who play board games are familiar with Dominion. It is considered…
What happens when you take Monopoly and Magic: The Gathering and smoosh them together? Culdcept. Culdcept is what happens. It’s perhaps a marriage between two very different genres of board game that no one really asked for, but the series has been around since 1997 and the Sega Saturn, so…
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Dungeons & Dragons is great. Really, really great. But it’s a massive time sink and even bigger commitment from the entire group. The last couple of times I’ve tried to get in on a D&D campaign, it has fizzled out once people started to get busy with work, weekends, or…
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I love when an announcement comes out of nowhere and gets you to jump up and do a happy dance. That’s what happened about a day ago when a press release landed in my inbox announcing that the original Culdcept was going to be re-released on Steam, and in English…
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People who play board games are familiar with Dominion. It is considered the “gateway drug” to deckbuilding card games (and was indeed the first example of one), being both light and accessible and very good at showcasing the basic mechanics of this particular genre. It has sold millions and millions…
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Sugoroku is, as far as the mechanics go, not the most exciting board game. In fact, it’s not far removed from Snakes & Ladders, and no one really plays it for the tactics or challenge. But it is a piece of Japanese culture that anyone with an interest in the…
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Lego Party is a Mario Party clone. Let’s not beat around the bush about that. It is what it is, and the development team at SMG isn’t for a second trying to claim otherwise. The problem is that Mario Party is a pretty challenging formula to get right, and… well,…
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Super Mario Party Jamboree was an impressive return to form for the Nintendo digital board game/minigame multiplayer mania series. After years of pointless experiments and some uninspired maps and minigame collections, the creative energy that went into Jamboree, combined with some fun side-distractions, help get it back to the top…
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Some of you are probably wondering: “What is a Sugoro?” Well, it’s easy to explain. Sugoroku is a classic Japanese board game where players roll the dice to move their pawns from the start of the board to the goal. There are many takes on Sugoroku in video games, including…
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Talisman is one of those iconic, classic board games that has been doing the rounds for many years now. The original Talisman is 41 years old now, having been released way back in 1983! That makes it somewhat more contemporary than Monopoly, Risk, and Cluedo, but puts it in the…
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What a great day for Shin Megami Tensei fans! First came the localization of the 2004 TTRPG Shin Megami Tensei – The Roleplaying Game: Tokyo Conception; Digital Editions can be downloaded now, while Physical Editions can be pre-ordered. A Shin Megami Tensei gamebook is fantastic, but for those craving something…
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