Brian Boru: The High King of Ireland is the latest game from designer Peer Sylvester, also responsible for our 2020 Game of the Year - The King is Dead. This however, is a bigger grander feeling strategy game, full of clever twists and unexpected spins on familiar mechanisms.
Howdy bone fans. What a video today - a comprehensive review of everything ever published for Too Many Bones so far. In this monstrous video you’ll learn about the popular dungeon crawler, why you’d want to buy it, why you wouldn’t want to buy it and what to buy or not buy. Is it a buyer’s guide? Yes. Is it a critical analysis? Yes. Is it too long and overambitious? Yes. The game, or the video? Yes.
Enjoy!
What do you get when you put a bear together with Carcassonne? Ironically, something with less bite than Carcassonne. Which absolutely shouldn’t deter you from giving Cascadia a spin because sometimes gentler does not mean worse. In today’s video Efka gives you the rundown on the latest tile-laying game from Flatout Games, taking you to the Pacific North West on a journey through nature and a crunchy good time.
Long time podcast listeners will remember that initially Uwe Rosenber’s latest entry into his farming universe canon did not exactly wow us, yet here Efka is, almost one year later reviewing Hallertau. What is Hallertau then, and what changed?
Well, you’ll have to watch the video to find out, but if nothing else, Hallertau is an interesting entry not just in Rosenberg’s long list of designs, but euro games in general.
What’s green and yellow and dicey all over? That’s right, it’s a sweetcorn salad, but also Railroad Ink Challenge. In this voluptuous follow-up to the roll-and-write genre’s darling superhit, publishing house Horrible Guild crams every idea under the sun. How in the world can it still be great? Well, it is, and I’m here to tell you why Railroad Ink Challenge is the followup that the original more than deserved.
Rather than an exhaustive review of all the little variants and expansions crammed into Railroad Ink Challenge, we decided instead to strip it down and expose the things that really do make it shine. If you’re hoping for grandiose comparison between Lush Green and Shining Yellow, then sadly, we don’t deliver. If you want to know just what makes Railroad Ink Challenge so nifty, you’ve come to the right place.
Hello everyone! We've been diligently trying to maintain consistent NPI reviews every two weeks on a Tuesday. And guess what? That's four Tuesday's in a row. I think that's the longest uninterupted streak we've ever had? Hope I didn't jinx this - please enjoy our review of Iberian Gauge - this game is something special.
If you’ve ever been curious what the fuss is about all these train themed board games - Iberian Gauge delivers the goods with a cheap ticket and no late arrivals.
Reiner Knizia designed SEVEN HUNDRED PLUS board games and we review every single one in this video!…. would be a true statement if Reiner Knizia didn’t design games at a faster rate than we are capable of reviewing them. Genuinely, we have done the maths on this and we cannot beat his design pace in output. So you’ll have to contend with just three of his games in this one video.
NPI has the scoop on perhaps the hottest game of the summer, and what better way to avoid the plague than by staying inside and moving fantasy heroes around a map for hours on end in an expansive story driven campaign with cool combat mechanisms. Can Descent: Legends of the Dark deliver on all of that? You’ve come to the right place to find out.
Ever wondered what Chess would look like as a card game? Find out in our review of Summoner Wars: 2nd Ed Master Set.
Heavy eurogames! What are they good for? Telling a complex narrative via the medium of interlocking mechanisms. In this video I explore how Kanban EV, a seemingly benign efficiency puzzle about making cars simulates work enviroments and what can we learn from it. Join me on an elaborate ride of factory hell.
I need to stop going into a big project after another big project with no little project to fill the gap in between. So expect something small and cute for our next video - but right now we have big, scary, moody, dark and expensive. Is it good? No. Is it interesting? Heck yes.
Bloodborne: The Board Game is not a fantastic game but it gets close. If you’re tickled by near greatness, this review delves into the whys and hows.
Today I’d like to invite you to take a journey through the history of narrative choice games. All the way from their earnest beginnings in the seventies, leading up to modern implementations in board games, and one of the finest examples in Sleeping Gods.
What could possibly go wrong with cats? They’re just cute animals and this is a cute board game about those cute animals. Look at that art - there’s nothing untoward going on here. By all means, do not worry about opening this box and unleashing the most devastating card board creation known to humans.
Our new favourite “solve a detective case” game is here and we can’t wait to tell you more about it.
To quote a popular space film - “space has never felt so good.” Today we’ll be taking a look at Beyond the Sun from first time designer Dennis K. Chan and nothing makes us stand up and pay attention as much knocking it out of the park on your first attempt. And to carry the baseball analogy further - Denis doesn’t just knock it out of the park, he knocks it out of the solar system. Kinda wish I wrote that line for the video rather than the blurb but I promise you, there’s a lot more goodness in this video.
Hello, it’s our game of the year video. Since there’s nothing more to say about this video without spoiling what our game of the year is, let’s just say that this is a video about our game of the year where we reveal our game of the year. If you ever wanted to know what board game was the game that gamed better than any other board game - you clicked on the right game of the year video. For 2020.
It’s nearly the holidays which can mean only one thing - Efka getting disappointed with all the toys he got. And in this video, the toys are really wow and everything else is really not.
Etherfields is a campaign game where you’ll trundle through dreams to find meaning - a quest as noble as finding wisdom in a circus. But in the true spirit of the holidays, Etherfields is more a sales pitch than a game, with so many buzzwords to entice you to play, and so many disappointments that will leave you as deflated as a dad stuffed with turkey.
Legends are not always what they’re cracked up to be. With that in mind, No Pun Included takes a crack at Catan and instead of unsnarling everything that by now makes it feel lackluster - we offer three other fantastic games that will be a perfect alternative to Catan to anyone.
There’s a point in this video where the music stops and the swearing begins and I think this sumps up our experience with Horizon Zero Dawn the board game pretty well. Never ever have we been so excited by the promise and so dismayed by our time with a game. But hey, why not take this journey together with us and see all the ins and outs for yourself.
Holy Toledo tornado Batman! If it isn’t the world’s premiere super-hero collectible card game - Marvel Champions - replete with vigillantes you always dreamed of becoming for a mere mere price of $59.95.
Marvel Champions is a co-operative card game where you and up to three other friends will colaborate to punch, kick and magic-blast your foes in the face or other protruding parts of their body. And now that this baby is one year old, it’s time to see how this game is holding up and whether it’s worth investing your time (and a minimum of $59.95) into.