Blades in the Dark Part 1 – Welcome to Duskvol
Blades in the Dark Introduction – Welcome to Duskvol Eight hundred years ago the heavens and the world broke. Now we live in near-perpetual night on fragments of old worlds, floating on a sea which looks like the night sky. Ghosts roam the world, kept out of cities by electrical fields. That doesn’t stop ghosts […]
Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game Review
WDR Gold Essential
We delve into Portals innovative and enthralling game of modern crime investigation and deduction.
Shadow Tactics Kickstarter Preview
We start the week (kind of) with a preview of Antler Games latest bit of Kickstarter goodness Shadow Tactics:Blades of the Shogun. Featuring an abundance of hidden movement, stealthy card programming and bumbling Ninja Warriors its a heady mix of interesting mechanisms and play styles and we liked it a lot. As you can see. […]
Lewis & Clark
WDR Silver
Let’s go paddling downriver in our canoes, fortunately, this involves very little duelling banjos and thankfully no pig squealing. We’re going way back to the expedition of 1804 that saw Meriwether Lewis and William Clark exploring the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Lewis and Clark is a frothy milkshake of deck builder, worker placement and […]
Sentinel Comics RPG Starter Kit
Designed by Christopher Badell and Critical Hit Studios. Published by Greater Than Games. Sentinels of the Multiverse is a game I’m a massive fan of. It’s a co-operative superhero card game with an incredible amount of lore buried in the cute art and fun quotes. The heroes, villains and environments in the card game each […]
Masks: A New Generation
Masks: A New Generation By Brendan Conway and Magpie Games “I have no powers and not nearly enough training but I’m doing this anyway. Being a superhero is amazing, everyone should try it.” – Young Avengers Vol 2, #1 The Book Masks is a game about young superheroes, so it had my attention from the start. I’ve loved […]
Night Witches
Night Witches By Jason Morningstar and Bully Pulpit Games You’re in a military airfield which has been carved out of a literal field and the runway consists of an old country road. Your supplies are low, you’re surrounded on three sides by German forces and you’re fitted out in old Po-2 World War I bombers […]
Lovecraftesque
By Josh Fox & Becky Annison. You are alone. There are no other investigators, no weapons and no authorities who believe you. All you have are your wits and the certainty you know what’s going on… at least, as much as a human mind can know such things. You pull open the secret door and […]
Terraforming Mars
WDR Silver
Welcome to our “Late to the Table” series of reviews. That’s industry code for eventually reviewing a hugely popular game long after every other reviewer, facebook group and pet with an opinion has flogged that particular nag to death. Anyway, where better to start than a cracking fugly hybrid euro sci-fi from a couple of […]
Legend of A E S T H E T I C
Legend of A E S T H E T I C By Jackson Tegu Our first shot is of our hero; a mothman in robes, with a single deformed wing. He’s riding through the woods on a wounded deer, arrows sticking out of it. The deer crashes to the ground and our adventurer closes […]
