Board Games

Western Empires is a big board game. A very, very, very, very, very big board game.

Let’s go back in time. Not to 1980, when Empire Strikes Back came out, that’s too far. We’re going to 1988, when…

Undaunted: Normandy is a World War Two game about combat on a very small scale.

Boy, talk about bad (or very good) timing.

One of the bright spots of being locked in my house for four weeks (and counting) with my kids is that we have played…

Dune is an experience so broken I don’t even know where to begin. Except to say it’s the best board game I’ve played…

Crusader Kings the video game…

Pipeline is a board game about buying cheap crude, pushing it through loads of pipes then selling it for cash. It’s…

I wrote about Mansions of Madness last week, because it’s a great game and I loved every second of it. This week,…

It was raining a hell of a storm outside, windows rattlin’ so hard I thought my teeth were gonna’ shake out. I was…

When I was a kid, I had a dream video game. It was basically “Wing Commander: Privateer”, only bigger, and it was…

I’ve been playing a few board games that use an app lately, but Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth is the…

There’s a new Sonic the Hedgehog board game out. And having spent the last week playing it with my kids, I think…

Architects of the West Kingdom is what you get when a designer takes a very good board game they’ve already made and…

Captain Sonar is a board game about submarines, but it’s also so much more than that.

Flamme Rouge is a game about early 20th- century bicycle races, and I promise you, it is a lot more fun than that…

Mars is inhospitable. Let’s change that.

I’ve played plenty of board games that are better than GKR, but I don’t think I’ve ever played one that’s cooler than…

Vengeance is what happens when someone takes the murderous revenge tale of movies like Kill Bill and turns them into…

There are too many board games about pirates. But Black Fleet is one you should fight through the fatigue for.