Tag: Board Games

A new game by Brotherwise Games, authors of “Night of the Ninja,” “Call to Adventure” and “Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game,” is set to release on August 16, 2023. The latest addition to this lineup, Castles by the Sea, is a game that focuses on building and rebuilding tiny sandcastles across the board as nature's elements and...

Board games for 2 players are usually quick and marked by a neat theme and solid gameplay. For a game to actually promote itself as a 2-player title and make it, a designer needs to know what they are doing from the start. Yet, just because you may have fewer players involved, this doesn’t mean there is a shortage...

Pandemic’s designer Matt Leacock adds another name to his co-op game collection, called Forbidden Jungle. The game is a part of the already-known Forbidden Series that the designer has worked on. Forbidden Jungle is joining the team of Forbidden Island, Forbidden Desert, and Forbidden Sky, taking players onto a mysterious jungle planet. Escaping a dangerous location isn’t the only...

Devir, a prominent publisher of board games and blockbusters such as War of the Ring: Second Edition, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, and countless others, has teased a new upcoming board game developed by a fairly new name in the board game scene, Carmen García Jiménez. An Intelligent Mix of Mechanics and Challenging Theme  Ierusalem Anno Domini is a game set for...

This will be the year of board games inspired by video games. True, board game adaptations of video games have been happening for quite a while now, but we have had an almost unprecedented influx of brilliant titles to explore over the past several weeks, Apex Legends: The Board Game one of them. Video Games Find New Home in Board Games Now, Steamforged...

Smash Up is hardly going to get dull with Alderac Entertainment Group’s long-running franchise and card game getting new additions across the board. The latest addition to come from the company is Smash Up: Excellent Movies, Dudes!, a set of cards that is fun, a little on the nose, and perhaps just what the game needs. More Movies, More 80s,...

Scorpion Masqué, the creators of Turing Machine, Flashback: Zombie Kidz, and Decrypto, are bringing us a brand new board game called Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game. The dungeon-crawler board game is expected to come to Kickstarter this spring. At the time of writing, the pledge amount and the estimated delivery dates have yet to be announced. If you...

A strange alien artefact has arrived on Earth. A half-block-of-flats cube now hovers over the North Pole, collapsing on itself and emitting strange signals and the scientific community is agog. Tesseract is an upcoming board game by designer James Firnhaber and artist Denis Freitas for Smirk & Laughter Games, an imprint of Smirk & Dagger, which will have you...

Trick or Treat Studios is bringing a classic with Gold West by designer J. Alex Kevern back to retail for a second edition. The game will have you step into the role of moustachioed prospectors who are hopeful of turning their fortunes around by finding enough precious metals to build an empire. New Mechanic, Familiar Setting, and Competitive Gold Rush Players...

Stonemaier Games, a publisher and developer of such board gaming blockbusters as Viticulture, Charterstone, Scythe and Wingspan, has offered a detailed breakdown of how well each of these games has performed in terms of sales across digital and physical channels. Stonemaier Examines Digital and Physical Sales of Board Games  Often subject to speculation and some Luddite fear, Stonemaier Games has decided...