The Family Gamers - Reviews

Sundae Split: The Game of Delicious Choices

6.5/10

August 6, 2018 Anitra Smith Reviews

Who doesn’t love ice cream? If I was serving up sundaes for the family, I would try to hold back some favorites for myself. But what if everyone else gets to choose their sundae first? How do I keep the family away from “my” favorites? That’s the concept behind Sundae Split.

Sunrise Lane – A Town on the Rise

8/10

January 8, 2024 Ryan Smoker Reviews

In Sunrise Lane, players compete to build the most lucrative and attractive neighborhoods. The higher their town rises, the more prestige they will enjoy. Certain city blocks are better investments than others, but timing is everything, and sometimes blocking a fellow builder from a great investment is the way to get ahead! The player with the most clever balance of both short-term scoring and long-term planning will surely rise to the top.

Super Beat Sports: We’ve Got the Beat

6.5/10

January 2, 2018 Anitra Smith Reviews

A rare video-game review! Harmonix is known for rhythm-and-music video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band. We love every game they have made (we regularly rave about Amplitude), so when they announced their new game for Switch, Super Beat Sports, we were intrigued. Sports in a music game? How could that work?

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Anitra, Harmonix, music, Nintendo, rhythm, sports, Video Games

Super Hack Override: Proxy Swap Your Way to Supreme Victory!

6/10

October 16, 2017 Andrew Smith Reviews

“There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think… it’s all about the information!” – Sneakers, 1992 For some of us, it’s quotes like these that are about as close to hacking as

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Andrew, card games, take that, Weird Giraffe

Super Mario Level Up!: Climb All of the Levels!

6/10

July 9, 2018 Andrew Smith Reviews

There is not a more recognizable image of video games in America than the Mario Brothers. Today we’ll take a look at a licensed board game featuring this iconic duo: Super Mario Level Up!, a 2017 game from USAopoly.

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5 players, 6 players, Andrew, deduction, Nintendo, Super Mario, The OP, vote

Sushi Dice: Get Your Yucks in and Roll Your Way to Fun!

7/10

March 20, 2017 Ray Kelley Reviews

Sushi Dice is a fun, fast-paced dice-matching game for 2 to 6 players, designed by Henri Kermarrec. For this review, we heavily “kid-tested” the game, with good results, and it’s easy to learn, at any age.

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dice, Dude Games, Family Gaming, food, Ray, speed games, Tabletop Games

Sushi Roll – Maki Your Rolls Count!

8.5/10

March 30, 2020 Anitra Smith Reviews

Sushi Roll is just as cute and fast-paced as the original. Overall, I’d recommend it for families who want to introduce drafting to non-reading children, or to families who love dice games. It’s a light, fast-moving game that will feel very familiar.

Suspects: Claire Harper Takes the Stage

8/10

December 12, 2022 Andrew Smith Reviews

Despite the length, we found this murder mystery series to be an excellent family experience.

Tajuto: Pagoda Pandemonium

8/10

September 7, 2020 Anitra Smith Reviews

In Tajuto from Renier Knizia up to four players will construct pagodas to increase their Meditation and achieve Spirituality points. Tajuto is published by Super Meeple (Luma Imports distributes it in the US & Canada) and is best for players ages 10+. How to Play Your goal is to have the most Spirituality points when the fourth pagoda is completed.

Tall Tales: Story Weaving

6.5/10

August 22, 2022 Andrew Smith Reviews

As you can imagine, we’re no stranger writing and stories here at The Family Gamers. Tall Tales lets us do exactly that.

Tang Garden : Meditative and Artistic

8/10

November 16, 2020 Andrew Smith Reviews

2020 has been tough, and there hasn’t been a lot of beauty to behold. Stop and smell the peonies in this gorgeous garden building game from Lucky Duck Games and ThunderGryph.

Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game

7.5/10

December 5, 2023 Jeremy Pike Reviews

Players chuck dice to make Mars habitable: increasing oxygen, raising temperature, and creating oceans. The dice represent different resources players can spend to raise these terraforming parameters or play Project cards.

Tesseract – Cooperative Cube Containment

8/10

January 1, 2024 Andrew Smith Reviews

Are kids allowed when you’re saving the known universe? We think so. Cooperate to contain cubes from the collapsing Tesseract before it causes an irreparable breach!

The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance – When Stories Get Crazy

8.5/10

July 12, 2022 Andrew Smith Reviews

Bureau of Balance is a fun, farcical storytelling game designed to get everyone around the table laughing. It’s light on rules because it’s supposed to be. If you’re looking for a crunchy, min-maxing dungeon crawl adventure, pass on this one.

The Adventures of Robin Hood

9.5/10

November 29, 2021 Andrew Smith Hall of Fame Reviews, Reviews

A large interactive map and a genuine hardcover book guide your multi-part narrative adventure as you and up to three friends live the lives of Robin Hood, Little John, Will Scarlet, and Maid Marian.

The Color Monster… And Emotional Intelligence

8/10

February 24, 2020 Chrissy Wissler Reviews

The Color Monster is all mixed up; he can’t tell what he’s feeling and his friend, the little girl, offers to help sort it all out. Work together to sort all the Color Monster’s emotions in the correct jars…

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine

9/10

October 12, 2020 Anitra Smith Reviews

There seems to be a planet at the edge of our solar system. Can you and your fellow astronauts complete the missions ahead of you to unlock the mystery of planet nine? The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine blends loose story-telling with truly inventive cooperative trick-taking while limiting players’ ability to communicate. The result is a tense collaborative experience,

The Game of 49: Three in a Row, Go for One More

4/10

August 27, 2018 Corey Lagunowich Reviews

The Game of 49 can be described very simply as Connect Four, but with bidding.

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2 players, 3 players, 4 players, 5 players, abstract, auction, bidding, Breaking Games, Corey, math, probability

The Game: Face To Face

6.5/10

July 6, 2021 Andrew Smith Reviews

To truly succeed in marriage and parenting you need to be inside your partner’s head as much as possible to support one another and be on the same page. But sometimes you can get into the head of your partner for your own benefit…

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2 players, Andrew, Pandasaurus

The Goonies: Never Say Die

7.5/10

January 17, 2022 Nick Martinelli Reviews

The Goonies: Never Say Die hits the nostalgia button pretty hard with its evocative art style and gameplay. You’ll feel like a Goonie yourself, working together to find One-Eyed-Willie’s lost treasure. At its core, this is a co-op game with a splash of roleplaying. The gameplay is solid and the mechanics blend perfectly with theme.

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