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A Grand Expedition

In a year that's felt rather light on major Euro releases in the U.S., with publishers seemingly pivoting toward small-box card games, it hasn't been a great year for fans of "beige" games. For...

Grinivil is what I want to see more of—ambitious design with thoughtful development decisions throughout. It’s not perfect, there’s the characteristic rough edges of a one-man show, but even the grumpiest player at my table was chuckling when someone would randomly say the game’s bizarre tagline: “You want to live here!”

This is a rondel house

Evoking m...

For most of the last two years, I have had an article in my draft folder titled “I Think I Hate Games Where I Have to Read a Lot of Card Text.” It started years ago with a deckbuilding game where I had to lean over the board’s card market to read every card that hit the conveyor belt.

Understanding not only the card’s cost, but its abilities, was critical to s...

Ever since I first played Tag Team with Meeple Mountain's Justin Bell at Gen Con 2025, I've racked up dozens of plays of th...

“So, normal trick-taking rules, must follow, there’s a single trump. But THIS time,...”

Trick-taking games are becoming very difficult to review, because an ocean of new trick-takers get released every week. (If you had told me the “best” part of the tariff backlash is that more companies are producing more cheap-to-make card games with a trick-taking element, ...