The Family Gamers - Reviews

Curiouser and Curiouser – A Case of Curious Cargo

7.5/10

May 2, 2022 Updated: April 24th, 2024 Andrew Smith Reviews

Make the things, pipe them to the trucks, and ship them! Try to receive anything shipped to you and pipe it back into your machines! That’s the general premise behind Curious Cargo, a game by Ryan Courtney and published by Capstone Games. Curious Cargo is a two-player only game for industrial engineers age 12+ that have an hour to spare.

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2 players, Andrew, Capstone Games, Kwanchai Moriya, Ryan Courtney

Cube Quest: Clash for the Crown

7.5/10

March 27, 2017 Updated: March 24th, 2018 Anitra Smith Reviews

Cube Quest promises fast-paced fun that is easy to learn. Are you ready to mobilize your fingers to defeat your opponent’s king and defend your own?

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2 players, Anitra, battle, dexterity games, dice, Family Gaming, Gamewright

Cryptid Cafe

6/10

October 31, 2022 Anitra Smith Reviews

Every character in Cryptid Cafe is a silly monster – the customers, the master chef, and the servers. The customers seem friendly, although a little impatient to get their meals.

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25th Century Games, 3 players, 4 players, Anitra, Chip Cole, food, halloween, monster

Crosstalk: Signal to Noise Ratio

7/10

September 3, 2018 Andrew Smith Reviews

I was sitting at my desk a few weeks after a work trip when my instant messenger dinged me. It was my colleague Steve. I thought of the perfect hint for that game! “That game” was CrossTalk, a party game I had brought on the trip. It wasn’t the first time something like this had happened to someone I played

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Andrew, CrossTalk, Nauvoo, party game, word games

Criss Cross: Will Make You Roll, Roll

7/10

January 27, 2020 Updated: August 7th, 2023 Nick Martinelli Reviews

In Criss Cross, you’ll roll two dice and write the pair of symbols anywhere on your player sheet. Make groups of matching symbols in rows and columns to get the best score.

Crazy Tower – The Architect Meets the Saboteur

8.5/10

August 10, 2020 Ryan Smoker Reviews

Put a little “fun with gravity” in your next family night with Crazy Tower, a building game that’s engaging for both builders and destroyers—you know who you are!

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2 players, 3 players, 4 players, dexterity games, Luma Games, Ryan, solo, stacking, Synapses Games

Crazier Eights: Camelot – How will it end? Good fun while you try to win or not lose!

7.5/10

October 23, 2016 Updated: August 20th, 2019 Ray Kelley Reviews

Crazier Eights: Camelot is the sequel to Crazier Eights from creator James Gray, this time with a King Arthur theme. The basis of the game is Crazy Eights, but getting rid of your cards isn’t the only way to win; and anyone can lose if they aren’t paying attention. Between discarding to reduce your hand or playing action cards for power-ups and attacks like

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card games, Crazier Eights, Family Gaming, James Gray, Kickstarter, Ray, Tabletop

Cranium Big Brain Detective Game

6/10

October 30, 2023 Stephanie Nye Reviews

Cranium Big Brain Detective Game is more of a seek-and-find activity than a game. Young players can solve mysteries on a colorful, large-scale game board.

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2 players, Cranium, Funko Games, mystery, seek-and-find, solo, Stephanie, young children

Cover Your Kingdom: The Family Gamers’ O-pun-ion

7.5/10

September 21, 2020 Andrew Smith Reviews

Conspire to acquire punderful creatures in this take-that set collection game. Best at 6-8 players, you’ll be showing cards to fellow players, marveling at how so many puns can be crammed into such a small box.

Cosmoctopus – The Incredible Inky Immortal!

8/10

November 4, 2024 Updated: November 19th, 2024 Andrew Smith Reviews

This is a game about managing your cult full of space octopus worshipers. For some of us this was silly, but for others it was a little uncomfortable.

Cosmic Cow Collectors – Comedic Card Craftiness!

7.5/10

July 12, 2024 Updated: July 23rd, 2024 Jeremy Pike Reviews

In Cosmic Cow Collectors you get to make abductions. Of cows. Because in this universe, cows are the most precious resource.

Constellations: Hexagonal Stargazing!

7.5/10

July 15, 2019 Updated: November 24th, 2020 Andrew Smith Reviews

Constellations is a tile-laying, pattern matching game for 2-4 players, lasting from 30-60 minutes. The game was designed by Ian Zang and Dante Lauretta and beautifully illustrated by Ashley Kenawell. Lay hexagons to grow the night sky and score points as you match patterns on your tiles!

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Andrew, educational games, set collection, stars, tile laying, Xtronaut

Color Field – Abstractly Puzzling

7/10

July 1, 2024 Anitra Smith Reviews

All paintings start as color and line. Color Field lets us play with matching up colors in an artistic framework.

Codenames Harry Potter

8/10

November 23, 2020 Updated: February 15th, 2025 Anitra Smith Reviews

Can you find the hidden Order of the Phoenix members? Or will you be stopped by Ministry officials and run out of time? Codenames Harry Potter combines the classic clue-giving experience with the magical wizarding world. Cooperate with your partner(s) to find all the Order of the Phoenix members without running out of time-turners or picking a Death Eater.

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2 players, Andrew, clue giving, cooperative games, guessing, Harry Potter, teams, The OP

Cloud City – Puzzling Layers of Pathways

6.5/10

December 28, 2020 Anitra Smith Reviews

If you have a budding architect who enjoys puzzles and want a light family game to play together, Cloud City is a good choice.

Clever Kids Mysteries: Fun for Young Detectives

8.5/10

June 24, 2019 Updated: June 25th, 2022 Anitra Smith Reviews

On a recent rainy day, we received a mystery box from Clever Kids Mysteries – the Mystery at the Lux Museum. Opening the box, the kids were immediately interested in what this mystery might be, and how they could solve it!

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2 players, 3 players, Anitra, escape room, mystery, puzzles

Clear for Takeoff: A Race Down the Runway

6/10

May 29, 2017 Updated: August 20th, 2019 Corey Lagunowich Reviews

One of my recently adopted criteria for a good family game is total length – from setup, through play time, to teardown. In this, Clear for Takeoff excels. Designed by Hagen Temeryazev, an airline pilot, illustrated by Etienne Hebinger, and published by Blue Orange Games, Clear for Takeoff is a card game that has you racing to get all three of

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Blue Orange Games, Board Games, card games, Corey, Family Games

Classic Reviews – Dixit: What Art They Thinking?

9/10

March 26, 2018 Updated: February 2nd, 2021 Dave Smith Reviews

Some games, in my opinion, fall into the category of “must have” in your collection. There are some games which I seem to never get tired of playing. Some games that are good “gateway” games; games that are great for helping introduce inexperienced players to more complex games. Dixit is an incredible game that fulfills all these categories.