Scythe, one of the best board games in years, is now in Early Access on Steam. It’s a very bare-bones port, though, so you might be better off playing the Tabletopia version instead, at least for now.
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Your “port everything to the Switch” jokes might soon extend to board games as well, with publishing giant Asmodee…
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…
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Paper? Cardboard? Plastic models? That’s some 20th century D&D shit. The adventures of the future look like this.
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Crusader Kings II, a sprawling PC game with around 17,534 buttons and menus, is coming to tabletops, and has been…
This beautiful thing is a hand-made remake of the classic board game Cathedral, put together by fan Squeazle.
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I reviewed V-Commandos last year and absolutely loved it, but 12 months later I’m somehow finding space in my heart…
Polish studio Acram Digital, who have released games like Steam: Rails to Riches and Eight-Minute Empire, have had…
Darwin’s Choice, a card game where you build your own animals and have to guide them through millions of years of evolution, is now up on Kickstarter. I’ve actually played a bit of it and it’s great fun. Plus the hand-painted art is gorgeous.
Scythe, one of the biggest and best board games around, is definitely not for kids. But My Little Scythe is. Just in case you’ve ever felt the need to share the experience of 1920's dieselpunk warfare and peasant labour with your little ones.
I’m a sucker for board games with an interesting premise and cool art, so I’m very interested in Brook City, an…
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Fantasy Flight’s money-printing X-Wing, which has been killing it for a few years now, is getting a reboot with a…
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CIA Senior Collection Analyst David Clopper has, since 2008, created three complex board games designed to test…
A miniatures board game based on Hellboy—the comic, mercifully, not the movies—has launched on Kickstarter, and is…
Games publisher Wonder Dice has been accused of stealing a designer’s ideas for its upcoming board game Alien: USCSS…
Battle royale games are so popular that even board games are getting in on the fun.
Fantasy Flight’s excellent Arkham board game Mansions of Madness is getting the video game treatment, and…
Sydney’s Jessica Estephan has become the first woman to ever win a Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix at the game’s…
Tokaido is six years old, and I am kicking myself I haven’t played it sooner.
It’s like the excellent X-Wing, basically, only you get to yell “launch alert fighters” a lot.