Today Amanda, Hector and I put our gumshoe hats back on for a game of Chronicles of Crime. I'm not usually a huge fan of app-driven games, especially when the app provides nothing except background music and choices that could be represented by a deck of cards, but Chronicles of Crime is among the top... Continue Reading →
Our 16th game was Western Legends, a sandbox game that took Kage, Hector and I to the wild west. This game brought to you by my earlier riding lesson today. You start by picking one of a multitude of famous western legends, including such as Annie Oakley and Doc Holliday, our particular characters of choice... Continue Reading →
Welcome back! For our second game today, we continue our journey into the wizarding world with Harry Potter: House Cup Competition. Having not been terribly impressed with Death Eaters Rising, we decided another Harry Potter game would be in order. House Cup Competition is a game that has interested me for some time as regular... Continue Reading →
Today Amanda and I played a round of Ecos: First Continent. Ecos can best be described as a sort of "bingo for gamers", with a little map building involved. I first found out about this game because I am a fan of designer John D. Clair's card building games and I thought I would try... Continue Reading →
Today brings us to the heaviest and most lengthy game thus far as we play Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization. Through the Ages is a deep, involved strategy game where you complete against opposing civilizations from early history through the modern age, and clocking in at a minimum of 2 and a... Continue Reading →
This most excellent Saturday brings us to Mystic Vale, where we face off as druids attempting to remove corruption from the land is this unique deck builder. Mystic Vale instantly stands out because of it's nearly unique approach to deck building; instead of adding cards to the deck, you start with a complete deck which... Continue Reading →
This fine evening brings us to Orleans, the bag drawing, engine building, worker placement-ish game that defies being placed in any sort of genre apart from "Euro". In Orleans you build a team of workers, move around a map, gather goods, build guild houses and earn money, all in order to have the highest score... Continue Reading →
Today Kage and I played Raiders of the North Sea and it was an intense battle of Vikings. One thing that is absolutely amazing about this game is the differentiation between game plays. It's a midweight worker placement euro game, and it does require some strategy, but that strategy is entirely dependent on the cards... Continue Reading →
Today we venture into Victorian England and match wits with the greatest detective in all of fiction in Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective. Worthy of note right off the bat is that, unlike many other games which will appear later on this list which are primarily 4 player games scaled down to 2 players, this is... Continue Reading →
Cardboard for 2 