Game 38 of the “Now & Then Summer Marathon 2024” – “Nemesis” played with Toby(6) and Jack (9). Nemesis was the 36th game I covered with Jack making this the 5th “then” game...
Category - Dungeon Crawler
Matthew Bailey
Coraquest: Keep on Questing
It has been a long time coming, but finally, we’re going to sit down and talk about ‘Coraquest: Keep on Questing’, the expansion to the excellent family Dungeon Crawler from Dan Hughes and his...
The Night Cage
Game 6 of our “Halloween Half-term Spooktacular” is… “The Night Cage” played by myself, Jack (.8.), and Toby (5). Firstly it’s worth mentioning that Jack(.8.) and Toby(5) have both...
Coraquest
“Cora Quest” has been mentioned quite a bit recently and often comes up when people ask for recommendations for either cooperative board games or introductory games into the world of dungeon crawlers or RPGs. I have...
Minecraft Portal Dash
Finally having sat on our shelf since before Xmas it’s time to get around to playing “Minecraft Portal Dash” played this afternoon by myself, Jack(7) and Toby(4). The Minecraft games have always been relatively...
Run Run Run!
So our half-term basically fell apart. Toby(4) got some sort of gut infection which we are still trying to sort and Henry(1) suddenly got an ear infection that caused his eardrum to burst… I then got ill and was...
Escape the Dark Castle
Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group. As we approach the end of Summer (and a board game marathon record comfortably broken) Jack(7) and I...
Lego Heroica: Waldurk
The boys love Lego as much as they love board games so I knew this Summer we had to squeeze in a Lego game so Game 42 of the “Bailey family sorta Summer Board Game Bonanza” is “Lego Heroica:...
Wonder Book
We haven’t had any story-driven games for a while so for the next 2 days we will be looking at 2 story-driven games that are both fairly similar in certain aspects of the execution but also quite different. So for...
What Next?
Another story-driven game that is very similar to yesterday’s game. So for game 22 of the “Bailey Family Sorta Summer Board Game Bonanza” we will be looking at “What Next?” played by myself...
Karak
Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group. Game 3 of the “Bailey Family Sorta Summer Board Game Bonanza” is “Karak” played...
Key to the Kingdom (2022)
Game 2 of the “Bailey Family Sorta Summer Board Game Bonanza” is “Key to the Kingdom” from restoration games played by myself, Jack(7) and Toby(4). Now Key to the Kingdom was an old game from the...
Escape the Curse of the Temple
Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group. So the concept of Escape the Curse of the Temple sees each player start in the middle of the temple...