Widget’s Workshop
If your family or play group loves the drafting phase of Galaxy Trucker but just wants that feeling in a shorter game, Widget’s Workshop could fill that niche.
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Animal Rescue Team – Saving the World Without Existential Dread
Matt Leacock paired with Lisa Towell to create another cooperative classic. This time, you’re saving animals. And this time, the game’s got some toy factor.
» Read moreDragonarium: Ingenious Incubation
The Minister of the Imperial Hatchery has abdicated their role and the ruler of the land is in search of the next Minister. It’s up to you to build the best dragon hatching environment with the best territory tiles, artfully arranging the three elements to breathe life into your dragon eggs. Will you best your opponents and be placed in
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Tidal Blades 2 – Rise of the Unfolders
Tag Team – More Tagging, Less Team
Dustbiters: Pocket Edition – Outrun the Storm
Dustbiters: Pocket Edition is the most portable, fast-paced, action-packed, turn-based car battle game. It feels like you’re in a Mad Max movie.
» Read moreEnthrone – Ascendant Simulacrums
ENTHRONE is a unique, abstract deduction strategy game for two players. You are the power behind the power. You are the silent hand and one of these unwitting 8 pawns will be your key to securing complete dominion. But your rival hides their own machinations to challenge you.
» Read moreEpisode 427 – Room to Grow: Trick-Taking Games
Off With Their Heads! – Don’t Go Mad And Keep Your Head!
I’ve taken to calling it a “trick-and-write” game. The writing part is so much more central to this game than the trick-taking aspect. You’re simply using the cards to try and make marks where you want to.
» Read moreA Place for All My Books – Cozy and Challenging
Move and stack books in your apartment to meet temporary goals, and build up your social battery so you can go to town and buy more books! A boardgame all about introverts who love being surrounded by their stuff.
» Read moreAspens: Fantastic Forests and Majestic Marvels
Every so often a game comes along from an unheralded publisher that makes you stop and look. It might be incredible table presence, it might be gorgeous artwork, it could be two people bouncing between intense focus and laughter that you can’t help but ask what’s going on.
» Read moreHoliday Hijinx #16: The Pride Pursuit – Parade Preparations
The Pride Pursuit is a reusable escape-room puzzle game where players solve clues and prepare for a Pride parade.
» Read moreLost Ruins of Arnak: Twisted Paths – Soar? Or Venture into the Dark?
Lost Ruins of Arnak: Twisted Paths puts a new twist on the island and temples of Arnak. It requires some extra thinking…
» Read moreVineyard: A Winemaking Game – A Shared Vintage
In Vineyard, players cultivate grapes, harvest them, craft wines, and ship them to earn stars. The player who contributes the most to producing quality wines wins the game.
» Read moreGot Five! – Finding Familiar Figures’ Factual Flow
Blue Orange has managed to even shoehorn some personality into a game that could otherwise be fairly dry.
» Read moreAdventurous – Sail Past the Edges
The open ocean was both marvelous and terrifying… Sailing out of sight of land was only for the most desperate – and the most adventurous.
» Read moreGuildlands – Shared Streets, Private Scores
Guildlands feels medium weight on the surface, but medium-heavy thinking unlocks the real strategic depth. Meaningful choices abound if you can master your faction.
» Read moreTamagotchi Collections – It’s Potty Time
Tamagotchi Collections is a fine game for someone who wants to revel in nostalgia or introduce that cute-but-frustrating experience to young children.
» Read moreS’mores Galore: Roast and Write – Outdoors for All
In the original S’mores Galore, you pull ingredient cards from a 2-dimensional grid on your turn. You add them (in order) to your line. But in Roast and Write, every player is taking the same ingredients every turn and building s’mores on their own 2D grid.
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