What’s a better way to spice up your summer travel plans than packing new micro-games from Button Shy’s Summer 2026 collection. I’ll be giving a preview of two of the new titles, Forest Rivals (for 2-players), and The Cursed Cast (for solo play), both consisting of 18 cards and playing in around 10 minutes. Forest […]
My initial thought was that FlipToons was an inoffensive filler that I had an unfortunately bad experience with. Having played a second time, I am revising my opinion.
It offends.
Rating — Avoid.
FlipToons 2 sucked the joy out of my life when the first card I bought (the only one I could afford) I randomly lost on the next flip, meaning my purchasing power was roughly half of everyone else for the next several turns. Towards the end of the game, when I randomly got one good turn, the best card I could buy was ranked #3 (from #21-#1 with higher being generally better). The person before me had bought a #15 …. leaving 1/1/1/2/3 after replacement.
This might have been humorous at 15 minutes1 with the right crowd. But at 40 minutes?
Can I blame the game for the crowd? Yes. Yes. I can.
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2026 saw the third iteration of Roll The Dice Cornwall’s South West Cornwall Games Expo, and it was the best yet. The first time was at a small church hall in Helston. The second was in a bigger hall on the outskirts. This time it basically took over the old Cattle Market Building and Coronation Park. and it was brilliant. Hot sunshine, vendors selling anything and everything geek…
Dive into history and heroism with Crusaders: The Siege of Acre 1291, a solitaire wargame that lets you experience the last stand of the Knights Templar and the Crusaders in the Holy Land.
Relive the courageous stand of some 15,000 Crusader soldiers, Knights Templars, Teutonic Knights, and Hospitallers as they defend Acre, a critical port city in the Holy Land, against a massive Mamluk army of some 80,000 soldiers armed with siege engines and catapults in the century after the Ninth Crusade.
Fighting was brutal. Mamluk archers and catapults rained missiles on the walled city, infantry conducted relentless assaults against its perimeter while miners attempted to breach the defenses of the stronghold from below. From behind its ramparts, the Crusaders repelled attack after attack while leading raiding parties outside of the city as the immense Mamluk army tightened the noose of the defending Crusaders.
When the dust settled, the city of Acre was overun by the Mamluk army. Crusaders and citizens were killed as the remnants of the Crusader army fled back to Europe while the legendary Order of the Knights Templars retreated to the island of Cyprus. The Crusaders lost their last major stronghold of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, never to return. Can you hold Acre?
-Grant
Snow muffled every footstep until the only sounds were distant birds and the steady crunch beneath our boots. The silence stretched in every direction: left to right, ahead and behind, as well as all the way up into the thermosphere. We were far away from anywhere. Yet, we knew we were safe. As the darkness settled all around us, we could finally see it: the Borealis: Arctic Expeditions by Dariusz Mindur from Lucky Duck Games with art by Rodrigo Camilo Alves De Almeida, Kevin Sidharta, Inês Toczyska and Ariadna Żytniewska.
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As I approached the BGQ Review Copy Altar (B.R.C.A, for short), a new in-shrink copy of the Galileo Galilei expansion, Luna, materialized in front of me. I looked around. “Hello?” No one responded. Tony is usually there for a snide comment, or Chris is hiding, waiting to snipe the copy right before you pick it […]
Icaion, the impossible to pronounce sequel to the equally slippery Mysthea, has been reviewed by BGQ before. Spencer covered the multiplayer game and came away less-than-impressed. This time, we’re diving into Icaion solo, with some multiplayer thoughts sprinkled in as well. Icaion, from Martino Chiacchiera and Marta Ciaccasassi, with art by Travis Anderson, and published […]
Here are two facts you should know about me: I love area control games, and I often only get to play board games with two players. Sounds like a conundrum, right? Well! Moytura pitches itself as a two-player area control game with the feel of a five-player game, thanks to three bot players. But does […]
Angeblich soll Galileo Galilei den berühmten Satz geprägt haben: "Und sie bewegt sich doch." Neuste Forschungen zeigen aber, dass dies eigentlich eine urbane Legende ist. Auch sein Bild vom Sonnensystem ist mittlerweile widerlegt worden. Galilei ging von kreisförmigen Umlaufbahnen aus. Die elliptischen Bahnen, die auch schon zu seiner Zeit bekannt waren, waren für ihn Mumpitz und passten einfach nicht in sein Weltbild, auch wenn seine kreisförmigen Umlaufbahnen die Welt nicht so korrekt erklären konnten wie die böse Konkurrenz. Aber darum geht es auch nicht in dem Brettspiel von Tomáš Holek, hier entdecken und erkunden wir den Nachthimmel. Wie das funktioniert und ob uns das Spiel, welches bei Frosted Games erschienen ist, gefällt, erfahrt ihr in der Review.
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