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Cooperate to “film” five scenes and complete a (hopefully) successful movie in Roll Camera! It’s best for teens and adults.
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Capture opponents’ pieces rock-paper-scissors style in Rock Paper Switch, a chess-like game for up to four players.
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What comes to mind when you read the phrase “video game adaptation”? Jean Claude Van Damme as Belgian Guile? XCOM: The Board Game: The Companion App? Endless Resident Evil sequels? An absolutely epic pile of cardboard tokens for Civilization? Turning a video game into a movie or a tabletop game is a difficult challenge. Robots Love Ice Cream: The Card Game,
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“In RobotLab, you’re a scientist racing to build your robot and win the coveted Devol Prize in Robotics! Along the way you’ll need to do some research, dig through the trash, deal with some faulty parts, and do your best to avoid the other scientists trying to stop you. Will you become the first to successfully complete your robot?” RobotLab
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Robot waiters gather food and bring it to customers. But can you deliver the food combinations your customers need?
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Robit Riddle, by Baba Geek Games, is a co-operative storytelling game. Can you and your robot friends find the missing robits?
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Do you enjoy the freedom of open roads and pausing to explore landmarks along the way? Have fond memories of taking road trips with family or friends? Or were your road trips right out of the Griswold family vacation playbook with a little bit of chaos just for fun? If you checked any of the boxes above, you’re ready for
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Gourmet cooking, unorthodox business practices, and culinary sabotage fill this tasty game of speedy decisions with a dash of take-that.
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Beyond these great mechanics, wonderful art, and it’s script-flipping hero-in-distress motif, Rescuing Robin Hood is a game that got us *talking*.
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The ice caps are melting. It’s up to you to find enough data to understand and halt the warming, while saving stranded polar bears from drowning as the ice melts underneath them. Are you up to the challenge: Rescue Polar Bears?
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Reign of Dragoness is a light, approachable game that plays well across generations. If you’re familiar with traditional card games, you’ll pick this up quickly.
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We love Regroup! Chicken Army and play it often. If your family enjoys easy-to-learn, tactical, card placement games, this could make a great addition to the game shelf.
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It’s rare that a game can move as quickly as Redwood does while allowing players to interact in a non-destructive way. It combines point-of-view with a photography theme in a way that’s fresh and easy to understand.
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In our last review we looked at the game Gruff from Studio Woe. This week we’ll look at the recently published second expansion, Rage of the Trolls. Unlike their first expansion, Clash of the Battle Goats, (released in 2016) Rage of the Trolls includes a brand new play mode completely unlike anything before it.
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In Raccoon Robbers, players control a band of raccoons who scale buildings and leap from great heights to score movement points for their boss raccoon.
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Although Ra felt pretty simple to learn, it’s still going to be very challenging for younger kids. The well-designed player boards smooth the way to understand all the scoring, but it’s still a lot to keep track of. We think the 12+ age range on the box is about right.
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Masters of the approachable family game, Gamewright delivers another multi-age filler game in Qwingo, a roll & write game designed by Heinz Meister. Read on to find out if we think Qwingo ranks highly, or if it makes us roll our eyes!
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The Op did a great job distilling skill and attack mechanics into a simple, narrative-driven system that kept the family’s nose out of their stat sheets and looking at one another, telling a story. That is, after all, what family gaming is all about.
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Quatorze seems like a short filler game, but it’s deeply strategic. It will probably take longer to learn it than to play it the first time.
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