A cooperative tower defense with great artwork and some fun design decisions that make it stand out.
Category - Older kids
Matthew Bailey
Personal Demons
An approachable and beautifully produced middleweight strategy game with excellent drafting and engine building.
Mariposas
A wonderfully thematic strategy game that beautifully recreates the incredible migration of monarch butterflies and, in my opinion, one of the most underrated games of all time.
Rush Hour Duel
A fun head-to-head version of a puzzle classic
Vantage
A hugely ambitious open-world choose-your-own-adventure experience packed with discovery and freedom, but its fragmented storytelling, repetitive dice resolution, and lack of clear direction make it a difficult...
Minecraft: Cave Adventure
A clever solo puzzle game making brilliant use of the Minecraft License.
Trapwords
A clever twist on classic word guessing games where you create your own “trapwords” to trip up the other team.
Fort
An unusual deck-builder with strong ideas and lovely production, but one that felt a little too repetitive and low-impact for us.
Deep Regrets
A brilliantly produced push-your-luck fishing game packed with clever decisions, monstrous catches, and enough depth to keep older kids and adults hooked.
Unmatched: Stars and Stripes
Today I’m going to be looking at the newest Unmatched set “Stars and Stripes.” The top half of the review is specifically about the new set and characters with the bottom half being about Unmatched as a whole...
Bridge or Bust
A brilliantly engineered bridge-building puzzle game that teaches real structural principles through hands-on challenges, making it an outstanding STEM experience for both kids and adults.
Re;MATCH
A clever 1v1 puzzle fighter that feels like a cross between Candy Crush and Street Fighter with great components and accessible rules.
Wyrmspan
A slightly more complex take on Wingspan that adds cave building and stronger engine chaining without losing accessibility.